Thanks Guerney21

When I clicked on the link I read Tom's prior experience and education. He's no slouch. He has worked with some large corporations and has an MBA from Harvard. He is more than just a numbers guy and our CFO.

Corporate Speaker: 

Thomas Mika, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Thomas Mika joined POET in November 2016 as CFO, adding the title of Executive Vice President in 2017. Mika previously served as the Chairman & CEO of Tegal Corporation, a semiconductor capital equipment company. On the Board of Directors of Tegal since its spin-out from Motorola in 1989, Mika assumed the roles of Chief Financial Officer in 2002, CEO in 2005 and Chairman & CEO in 2006, positions which he held until 2015. In 2015, Tegal renamed CollabRx Inc. merged with Rennova Health with Mika retaining the position of Chairman until joining POET. Previously, Mika co-founded IMTEC, a boutique investment and consulting firm, serving clients in the U.S., Europe and Japan over a period of 20 years, taking on the role of CEO in several ventures. Earlier in his career, Mika was a managing consultant with Cresap, McCormick & Paget and a policy analyst for the National Science Foundation. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.