Quantifi Photonics Appoints Co-Founder as CEO

Quantifi Photonics, a photonics test and measurement company, has appointed co-founder Iannick Monfils as its CEO following the departure of fellow co-founder Andy Stevens. Stevens will continue to advise the executive team and remains a major shareholder in the company.

Iannick Monfils. Courtesy of Quantifi Photonics.

Since co-founding Quantifi Photonics in 2012, Monfils has been leading the company’s engineering team and developing its product portfolio to include test solutions for coherent optical modulation, high-volume manufacturing of photonics integrated chips and pluggable optical transceivers, and general-purpose photonics.

Monfils has over 23 years of experience in the photonics and telecommunications industry, supporting the launch of the first commercial long-haul coherent transceivers at Nortel. Before his appointment, Monfils served as Quantifi’s CTO.