Management team
CEO in interim
Barry Turner has assumed the role of Chairman and CEO (Interim) for Cyrium Technologies Ltd. Barry served on Cyrium’s Board since its founding and has recently retired as AsiaSat's General Manager of Engineering. AsiaSat, based in Hong Kong, is one of the largest, oldest and most profitable satellite companies in Asia. At AsiaSat Barry was responsible for the design and implementation of major capital programs including the AsiaSat 3S, 4 and 5 satellite systems and AsiaSat’s Tai Po Teleport. His responsibilities included International Frequency Regulation, International Spectrum management, as well as network design and activation for AsiaSat's clients. Mr. Turner has over thirty years of aerospace experience and has provided consulting and management services to satellite communications programs in Australia, Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the United States. Mr. Turner holds a BEE degree from the Technical University of Nova Scotia in Canada and a MBA degree from the University of Ottawa. Prior to AsiaSat Barry held executive (VP sales and Marketing) , general management and engineering positions at Telesat Canada, principally in satellite control and operations.
Barry has several published papers on the subject of satellite control and operations and has been awarded the Space Rescue Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the International Space Mission Recovery Prize by La Réunion Spatiale for his work in recovering a malfunctioning Anik E Satellite.
Founder and CTO
Dr. Simon Fafard brings 15 years of Optoelectronics experience covering the complete product development cycle: an established scientist with vision and recognized globally with accomplishments from innovative R&D, material research and engineering, new product design and prototyping, with deep knowledge of target markets from experience in technical customer support and product line management.
He thrives in various environments, having dedicated 7 years of his career establishing a prestigious nano-optics program in the national lab of IMS/NRC as a Senior Research Officer. He then evolved to the startup environment at Kymata Canada and to an established company with a complete portfolio of state-of-the-art products as a product Line Manager at Alcatel Optronics.
Dr. Fafard was an NSERC Postdoc fellow at the NSF-funded QUEST center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and he holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Ottawa. He published over 125 articles in the scientific literature, wrote book chapters and several patents in the field of Nanostuctures.
Director, Semiconductor Manufacturing
Norbert has over 20 years of epitaxy and wafer processing experience in the optoelectronic semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Cyrium, he was with Agility Communications (JDSU) in Santa Barbara, a manufacturer of widely tunable lasers and transponders, where he held the position of Vice President, Optical Components.
In his nearly twenty years with Nortel (formerly Bell-Northern Research) he applied his expertise in various roles of increasing responsibility. In 1985, Norbert was a member of the scientific staff in the development and characterization of III-V semiconductor epitaxial materials and processes. Several years later, under his leadership, BNR's MOCVD group introduced their world-class epitaxy processes to manufacture leading-edge optical transmission products.
In 1999, as Sr. Manager within Nortel, he was responsible for the wafer production, material characterization and device failure analysis for their optoelectronics' operation. From 2001 he directed the entire optoelectronic wafer fabrication engineering team of over 100 staff.
Norbert received his Ph.D. in solid-state physics (emphasis on semiconductor technology) from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany.
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