| Victor Yen retired March 30, 2007 as President of Electro
Optical Components. He spent 40 years pioneering the use of
infrared components.
Victor was born in Mexico where his father served as a
Chinese diplomat. His family later lived in Shanghai and in
Thailand and moved to Taiwan after communist rule began in
China. He emigrated from Taiwan and studied at the University of
Redlands and received a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering from
California Institute of Technology.
After teaching aeronautical engineering at a college in
Indiana and working for Ford Motor Company, Victor began his
infrared career as an infrared sales engineer at Optical Coating
Labs (OCLI) in Santa Rosa, CA. As Marketing Manager he developed
applications for infrared filters and coatings and oversaw the
sales of all OCLI products. He wrote the OCLI "Infrared
Handbook" which is still used as an industry guide today.
While Vice President of Optoelectronics, Petaluma, CA, he
worked to spread the use of lead sulfide (PbS) and lead selenide
(PbSe) infrared detectors. More recently as marketing consultant
for Cal Sensors, Santa Rosa, CA he led the commercialization of
their PbS and PbSe detectors.
In 1997 Victor co-founded Electro Optical Components, Inc. (EOC)
www.eoc-inc.com, a specialty distributor of infrared detectors,
filters and components. He managed EOC’s growth into a key
supplier of these infrared components. Since Victor’s departure
from EOC, Bill Bolster has take over management and ownership of
the company.
Victor and his wife, Carol, plan to live in Windsor, CA.
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