North America is a key market for smart manufacturing technologies in the fields of automation, laser processing, and metrology. Hao’s experience in business development, key accounts and global business will further strengthen efforts aimed at growth in the region by expanding products into different industries and significantly magnifying our market growth efforts.

“We welcome Denny to the Jenoptik management team and look forward to working with him on the further development of the North American market,” says Steven Green, President of Jenoptik Light & Production US. “Denny brings a tremendous amount of experience and energy to the company and we predict a significant acceleration of our market engagement strategy under his leadership.”

With a bachelor’s degree of mechanical engineering from University of California (Berkeley), Hao has over 20 years of experience in engineering, business development, key account management and production, supporting the North American manufacturing industry. Prior to Jenoptik, Hao has worked in several leadership roles at JABIL, managing teams across the globe in the USA, Europe, and Asia.

About Jenoptik’s Light & Production division

Jenoptik is a globally operating technology group, which is active in the three photonics-based divisions Light & Optics, Light & Production and Light & Safety. Our key target markets primarily include the semiconductor equipment industry, medical technology, automotive and mechanical engineering, traffic, aviation as well as the security and defense technology industries.

The Light & Production division of Jenoptik is a globally active specialist in the optimization of manufacturing processes. With our many years of experience and know-how in the fields of industrial metrology and optical inspection, modern laser-based material processing and highly flexible robot-based automation, we develop customized manufacturing solutions for our customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical technology and other manufacturing industries.

As a firmly established key supplier in the global automotive market, we face the modern challenges of flexibility, productivity and increasing variant diversity on a daily basis, thus meeting the growing demand for complex and turnkey industrial solutions with a focus on machine integration and process automation. As a development and optimization partner, we jointly face our customers' market-specific challenges and, by intelligently combining our key technologies, take customer-specific systems to a new, forward-looking level.