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Alexander Fang

Director at Coreshell Technologies. Also a director at Quintessent and an executive officer and director at OpenLight Photonics.

ExecutiveDirectorRoles at 3 startups
Updated Nov 10, 2026·Latest SEC filing Apr 6, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Alexander Fang

Alexander Fang is a director at Coreshell Technologies.

Form D filings also name Alexander Fang as a director at Quintessent and an executive officer and director at OpenLight Photonics.

Alexander Fang first appears on SEC filings in 2011.

Experience

This experience comes from Alexander Fang's profile and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Alexander Fang in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Lucidean Current
Member, Board of Directors
2025 – Present
PseudolithIC Current
Member, Board of Directors
2024 – Present
d-Matrix Current
Board Observer
2021 – Present
Coreshell Technologies, Inc. Current
Member, Board of Directors
2020 – Present · San Leandro, CA
Coreshell makes silicon-based batteries for automakers, battery manufacturers, and defense customers.
Entrada Ventures Current
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
2018 – Present
UC Santa Barbara Foundation Current
Trustee (2019 – Present)
Dean's Cabinet Member, College of Engineering (2004 – 2023)
2004 – Present
Quintessent Inc.
Member, Board of Directors
2020 – 2026 · Goleta, CA
Quintessent builds laser-based optical links that help AI data centers connect more computing chips with less energy.
ThinGap, Inc.
Chairman, Board of Directors - acquired by Allied Motion Technologies
2019 – 2022
Juniper Networks
Senior Director, PIC development
2016 – 2020
Aurrion, Inc.
CEO and Co-Founder - acquired by Juniper Networks
2007 – 2016
OpenLight Photonics, Inc.
Executive officer and director
2011 – 2014 · Goleta, CA
University of California, Santa Barbara
Post-Doctoral Scholar
2008 – 2009
Intel Corporation
Graduate Technical Intern
2004 – 2005
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Scientist and Engineer/ Technical Scholar
2003
EFI
Engineering Lab Assistant
1999 – 2000
IBM
Engineering Intern
1998

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Alexander Fang works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Coreshell Technologies, Inc. · Form D, Apr 6, 2026
John Nadaskay
John Nadaskay
Chief Financial Officer
BO
Benoist Ollivier
Ferroglobe, Coreshell Board Director
Jonathan Tan
Jonathan Tan
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder and director
JB
Judith O'Brien
Independent Director, Coreshell Board Director
HW
Hinrich Woebcken
Trousdale Ventures, Coreshell Board Director
SB
Sourav Basu
Executive officer and director
YK
Youngduk Kim
Chief Manufacturing Officer
NP
Nami Park
Access Industries, Coreshell Board Director
Quintessent Inc. · Form D/A, Nov 2, 2023
Manny Stockman
Manny Stockman
Board Member
Alan Liu
Alan Liu
CEO, Co-Founder & Board Member
John Bowers
John Bowers
Chairman of the Board & Co-founder
OpenLight Photonics, Inc. · Form D, Sep 19, 2014
GF
Gregory Fish
Director
SC
Steve Cooper
Director
DB
MC
Milton Chang
Director
JB
John Bowers
Director

Sources

  1. SECCoreshell Technologies, Inc. Form D, filed Apr 6, 2026
  2. SECQuintessent Inc. Form D/A, filed Nov 2, 2023
  3. SECOpenLight Photonics, Inc. Form D, filed Sep 19, 2014