Ryan Hochgesang joined EMCORE as Vice President and General Counsel in May 2017. Prior to joining EMCORE, Mr. Hochgesang served as VP, General Counsel of Surf Airlines Inc., a private membership-based airline, as Senior Corporate Counsel of Rentech, Inc., a publicly held energy and natural resources company, and as VP, Assistant General Counsel of Opnext, Inc., a publicly held designer of fiber optic components and modules. Prior to those roles, Mr. Hochgesang practiced corporate law at the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins LLP from 2003 to 2008. Mr. Hochgesang holds a B.A. degree from the University of Southern California and a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

Janet Liu was appointed EMCORE’s Vice President of Quality and Organization Performance in 2016. Ms. Liu joined EMCORE China in 2013 as Senior Director of Manufacturing Quality and has been leading EMCORE’s quality and reliability programs since 2014. Prior to joining EMCORE, Ms. Liu worked for various business units at Motorola for 20 years, holding a variety of management positions including Senior Director of New Product Launches, Customer Quality Director and Master Black Belt for the Greater China region.  Ms. Liu was certified as a Motorola Black Belt in 1998 and a Master Black Belt in 2000. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Optical Physics from Shandong University in China and a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics in Statistics from New Jersey Institute of Technology.