About Lightsense

Company

Meet the team developing miniaturized optical detection technology and application-focused products.

About Our Company

The Company

Lightsense is breaking new ground by translating expensive, tabletop spectrometer instrumentation into miniaturized, handheld platforms with its advanced optical design and detection technology. The Lightsense technology portfolio and deep know-how has been developed by a seasoned and accomplished team over decades. This has led to miniaturized and affordable products with unique capabilities to identify and analyze materials.

With an enabling technology that can address multiple verticals, Lightsense works with partners to tailor its spectrometer platform for their application. The current focus includes handheld spectrometers to detect illicit drugs, aimed at law enforcement.

Management Team

Lightsense has assembled a seasoned management team with decades of experience in all the critical areas of the business. The team has extensive experience from founding and leading successful start-ups, being high-level management in large multi-national technology companies and accomplished research personnel from top-level academic research universities and national laboratories.

Leadership

Management Team

Lightsense has assembled a seasoned management team with experience spanning technology companies, startups, academic research, and national laboratories.

Terje Skotheim

Terje Skotheim

Founder

Bruce Berkoff

Bruce Berkoff

Marketing and Business Development

John Coates

John Coates

Optical Instrument Design and Spectroscopy

Kevin Harris

Kevin Harris

Engineering

Joshua Nelson

Joshua Nelson

Finance

Lenny Lemer Muñiz

Lenny Lemer Muñiz

Law Enforcement Strategy

Specialist guidance

Advisors

Specialist advisors complement the management team with application-focused expertise.

Mike Stanley

Mike Stanley

Machine Learning