POET Technologies Inc. (POET)

Dr. Suresh Venkatesan is chief executive and chairman, first appointed in June 2015. He came from GlobalFoundries, the contract chip maker, where he was senior vice president for technology development: he joined it in 2009, led the development and ramp of the 28nm node and worked on the transfer and qualification of 14nm, and before that held leadership positions at Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. The annual report credits him with more than 22 years in semiconductor technology development, over 25 US patents and more than 50 technical papers. 123

Thomas R. Mika has been executive vice president and chief financial officer since November 2016. He sat on the board of Tegal Corporation, a semiconductor capital equipment company, from its spin-out from Motorola in 1989, was its chief financial officer from 2002, its chief executive from 2005 and its chairman and chief executive from 2006 until 2015, when Tegal merged with Rennova Health. Kevin Barnes, vice president for finance and administration, has been corporate controller and treasurer since 2008 and was briefly chief financial officer between 2012 and 2016. Much of the product bench came from MACOM: Raju Kankipati, chief revenue officer since May 2022, was a senior director of product management there and before that a product manager at Arista Networks; Dr. Mo Jinyu, senior vice president for global product development since January 2022, was MACOM's senior director and chief scientist for its Lightwave business in Asia. Yong Meng (James) Lee, vice president for interposer engineering since September 2019, runs the Singapore subsidiary and came from IMEC after nineteen years at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. 1456789

Jean-Louis Malinge has been the lead independent director since September 2017; he was president and chief executive of Kotura, a silicon photonics pioneer, from 2004 to 2013, when Mellanox Technologies bought it, and spent 15 years at Corning. Glen Riley, who chairs the compensation committee, joined in December 2020 from Qorvo, where he ran the filter solutions business. Theresa Ende, a director since October 2022, is chief procurement director of Arista Networks and spent ten years before that running its global supply chain. Robert Tirva, appointed in December 2024, took the audit committee chair on May 13, 2025; he was president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Sonim Technologies. Sohail Khan joined in July 2025 from Coherent Corp. Three resignations mark the year: Chris Tsiofas, audit chair since 2012, resigned from the board on June 27, 2025, the president and general manager Vivek Rajgarhia resigned the same day, and the vice president for product engineering Dan Meerovich on March 31, 2025. 6101112131415161718

This is a small company by headcount. At the end of 2025 it had 80 full-time employees and 10 consultants or full-time contractors: 52 of the employees at the Singapore facility, 10 in China, 9 in Malaysia and 9 in the United States, with contractors in the same places and one in Italy. None of the employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements. Insider trades are reported at home rather than to the SEC: as a foreign private issuer the officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the short swing insider disclosure provisions, and they stay exempt because the company is organized in Canada and files under Canadian insider reporting rules, so the insider record this site holds carries no one for POET. 1920212223