Can you tell us about your background?My background is in electronics.I graduated in that field many years ago and spent most of my career in business development and sales management across very different industries, none of them related to photonics.Ekspla is actually my first experience in this sector. How did you come to lead Ekspla?I joined the company about seven years ago as OEM Program Manager.After a few years, I became Head of Production, and later I was appointed as CEO.This evolution came naturally from my background in business development.When I joined, I quickly realized that Ekspla was a very unique company with truly distinctive products and technologies.The main challenge was to better monetize those innovations, to translate the impressive technical achievements of our engineers into sustainable business growth.Ekspla had already reached a solid level of maturity, but to move forward we needed to prepare for the next strategic step. How did Ekspla begin?The company was founded in 1992 by eleven engineers, just a couple of years after Lithuania regained its independence.Before 1990, there were no private companies in the country, since everything was state-owned.Those engineers realized that they had something very special: deep expertise in picosecond laser technology.At that time, picosecond lasers were still cutting-edge, and very few groups worldwide could design reliable systems.These engineers were already building such lasers for research institutions.When Lithuania's economy opened, they decided to stay together and create
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