Jay Kumler

Jay Kumler is President of Jenoptik Optical Systems, the US optics operations of Jenoptik AG.
Jenoptik AG is a globally operating integrated photonics group with nearly 3,600 employees present in more than 80 countries and with customers in the semiconductor equipment, automotive, medical, defense and aviation industries.
Prior to Jenoptik, Kumler founded Coastal Optical Systems which he lead for 10 years and sold to Jenoptik.
Before Coastal, Kumler designed optical systems for United Technologies and Bell Laboratories.
With over 28 years of optical design and engineering experience, Kumler is a published author, has developed patents and speaks regularly on optical solutions.
He is an advisor and founding sponsor of the annual SPIE Startup Challenge pitch competition in San Francisco, an SPIE Fellow and served on the SPIE board of directors from 2010-2012.
Kumler is also past president of APOMA, has earned a B.S.
Physics from Miami University and a M.S.
Optics from the University of Rochester.