Jason Eichenholz is the CEO of Open Photonics, which is dedicated to the concept of open innovation—the idea that firms can and should use external ideas in addition to their internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, to advance the adoption of their technology. Jason was the Photonics Divisional Technology Director at Halma responsible for open innovation, and technology and strategy development for Halma’s Photonics Division. Previously he was CTO of Ocean Optics and Director of Strategic Marketing at Newport/Spectra-Physics.