Our Management Team

Ingo Smaglinski
Francis Nedvidek
Thomas Paatzsch
Bernhard Heine
Sven Krüger

Francis Nedvidek, the company 's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is Chairman of the Executive Management Board.
His career progression boasts over two decades of experience spanning technology innovation, product and market development and general management roles.

Prior to joining CUBO, Dr. Nedvidek held senior positions with corporations in Canada, the USA and Europe including the Raytheon subsidiary ELCAN Optical Technologies, Leica, Black & Decker and the Electrical Division of von Roll ISOLA. Dr. Nedvidek holds a Ph.D. in Laser Physics and M.E.Sc. and B.E.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Dr. Nedvidek also holds a P. Eng. designation.

Bernhard Heine, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), is responsible for finance, accounting, contracts, legal matters and human resources.

Before joining Cube Optics as a member of the founding team, he worked in different controlling functions at Fresenius and Fresenius Medical Care.
He holds a degree in economics and business administration from the Technical University of Berlin.

Sven Krüger, Vice President Product Management, is responsible for product management, application engineering and technical sales support.

Joining Cube Optics as a member of the founding team he first focused on market positioning and built up Cube Optics’ Network Operator Business as Carrier Sales Director. Before that he worked as a technology consultant for the IRC of the European Commission, and prior to that at the Institute for Microtechnology Mainz in research and development of integrated optical components.

He holds a Master degree in Physics from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

Thomas Paatzsch co-founded Cube Optics and fills the role of Chief Operations Officer (COO). He manages production, administration, finance and the human resources departments of CUBO.

Since setting up the company in August 2000, he successfully built up the company and navigated it through two rounds of financing. Dr. Paatzsch began his career at the Institute of Microtechnology Mainz (IMM) where he developed a profound knowledge of the design, production and characterization of micro-optical components. He held senior positions at the patent group and the Integrated Optics group of IMM.

Dr. Paatzsch received his Ph.D. and Master’s Degrees in Physics from the University of Konstanz in 1997 and 1994 respectively.

Ingo Smaglinski has been the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Cube Optics since co-founding the company in August 2000. He not only developed CUBO’s proprietary technology and component design but has also been responsible for all technical aspects of CUBO’s R&D.

Mr. Smaglinski started his career at the Institute of Microtechnology Mainz (IMM) where he worked closely together with Dr. Paatzsch concerning the design, micro machining, assembly strategies, production and characterization of micro-optical components.

Mr. Smaglinski completed his studies with a Master’s degree in Applied Physics (Physikalische Technik) from the Technical University (Fachhochschule) of Wiesbaden in 1995.