Professor Michael Withford

CEO, Modular Photonics

Michael Withford is a Co-founder and CEO of start-up Modular Photonics, and a CSIRO ON alumni.

Modular Photonics, a spin out from Macquarie University, manufactures award winning glass-microchip devices that increase data transmission rates and reach in legacy public and enterprise optical fibre networks.

Michael Withford holds several patents and has published over 150 refereed journal papers and several hundred conference papers.

He is an OSA Fellow, SPIE Fellow, IAPLE Fellow and member of BICSI.