Mark Englund
Founder & CEO, FiberSense
About the Speaker
Mark Englund was born and raised in the top end of the Australian Northern Territory and has always been fascinated with technology. He has over 25 years’ experience in sonar, optical fiber technology, engineering and business building.
His track record has been built as an engineer, entrepreneur, and business owner around a singular focus on the question of where the key value drivers are sitting in optical fiber networks and sensor systems.
He has held positions as: Head of the Optical Fiber Sensor laboratory at DSTO Australia; a founder, executive director and CEO of an optical fiber component company supplying high performance fiber Bragg gratings for sensing and telecommunications; a US business development executive of a $1B subsea telecommunication cable supplier in to carriers and data center operators; and a US business development & strategy executive of a $4B business spanning the total optical fiber network relevant to cloud (subsea & international, terrestrial and in data centre). Mark has an honors degree in Engineering from the CDU and a PhD in optical fiber sensing from the University of Sydney.