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Gentec-EO hires laser-beam measurement veteran Burt Mooney

Oct. 12, 2011

Quebec City, QC, Canada--Gentec-EO USA hired laser-beam measurement veteran Burt Mooney to join its sales force as sales development manager for the USA.

Gail Overton

Quebec City, QC, Canada--A wholly owned subsidiary of Gentec Electro-Optics, Inc. (Quebec City, QC, Canada), Gentec-EO USA, Inc.(Lake Oswego, OR) hired laser-beam measurement veteran Burt Mooney to joinits sales force as sales development manager for the USA. Mooney has been extremely active in the field of laser test & measurement over the past 25 years. He started working for Molectron Detectorin 1986, and remained active as sales manager until the company was acquired by Coherent in 2002. Since then, and until September this year, he was the power/energy meter specialist for the USA for Ophir Optronics.

Michel Giroux, president and CEO of Gentec Electro-Optics, said, "We are thrilled to have Burt join our team. His impressive track record over the last 25 years has demonstrated his commitment to improving business growth while understanding his customer needs, which is a perfect fit with our own strategy." As General Manager of Gentec-EO USA and former colleague of Burt, Don Dooley added, "Burt is a truly reliable and trustworthy person, with a strong knowledge of the Laser Measurement business. It will be a real pleasure to have the opportunity to work with him again."

"I’m very excited about joining Gentec-EO, a world-renowned leader in laser beam measurement, and look forward to working again with Don," said Mooney. "I am pleased to join Michel Giroux, whom I’ve personally known and respected for 23 years. He and I agree completely on how to respect customers, by providing them with exactly what they want in a timely manner, with the most important values, integrity and high quality."

Gentec Electro-Optics has 40 years of experience in the laser measurement field. In 2000, Gentec Electro-Optics, Inc. was formed from Gentec, Inc. so that the focus was entirely on laser measurement. The company now manufactures a complete range of laser power and energy meters, beam diagnostics and diffractive optics. Since the acquisition of Spectrum Detector in June 2010, they have added many products to the range, including high-speed 130 kHz joulemeters and terazherts sensors and instruments. Gentec Electro-Optics also supplies large-aperture calorimeters to measure the highest pulse energies. Their products are sold around the world, with distributors and representatives in more than 35 countries.

SOURCE: Gentec Electro-Optics; www.gentec-eo.com/about-us/news/2011/Burt-Now-at-Gentec-EO

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.