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About Marktech Optoelectronics

Marktech Optoelectronics is a leading designer and manufacturer of optoelectronics components and assemblies, with a focus on optimizing product performance. We offer a broad range of materials, including UV, visible, NIR, and SWIR emitters, detectors and materials.

Marktech Optoelectronics is a leading manufacturer of detectors and emitters in UV, visible, near-infrared (NIR), and short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) wavelengths. The company is vertically integrated, growing epitaxy InP wafers, fabricating InGaAs detector and emitter chips, packaging chips, and even producing completed assemblies for some OEM customers. Marktech also designs and produces silicon photodiode detectors, avalanche photodiodes (APDs), phototransistors, and photodiode arrays (PDAs) at their Simi Valley, CA manufacturing plant.

Marktech has highly valued long-term customer relationships with leading OEMs as well as university, government, and research laboratories all over the world. They are known for their willingness and ability to tackle leading-edge projects from startups, small manufacturers, and large innovative OEMs, even when projects require a high degree of customization, high reliability, or space-qualified packaging, advanced sorting, and validation, or quality assurance testing.

What sets Marktech Optoelectronics apart from other leading manufacturers is their focus on optical characteristics such as wavelength sorting and power output binning. They offer several customer-focused design, R&D, and test services that are not generally offered by other optoelectronics manufacturers and distributors. Their cohesive, talented team of engineers and test technicians operate under the direction of their highly experienced CTO in their Latham, New York-based corporate headquarters and R&D center.

The Marktech Team

Mark Campito

Founder & CEO

Mark Campito is the founder and CEO of Marktech, a position he has held since the company’s founding in 1985.

Following his graduation from Siena College and active U.S. Navy service, Mr. Campito focused his career exclusively in the optoelectronics field, holding a progressive series of leadership roles in sales, marketing and business development. Beyond Marktech, Mr. Campito has also been instrumental in the successful establishment of a variety of technical sales and marketing organizations at optoelectronics industry manufacturers across both North America, Europe and Asia.

Bill Moore

Executive Vice President & COO

Bill Moore joined Marktech Optoelectronics in 2010 and was soon promoted to the position of president and COO. A 35-year veteran of the optoelectronics space, Mr. Moore oversees Marktech’s day-to-day sales and marketing, finance, operations, export compliance, and Digi-Key Electronics distribution relationship across the company’s full optoelectronics component and assembly offerings, including UV, visible, near-infrared, and short wavelength infrared emitters, detectors, InP epiwafers and other materials.

Vincent Forte

CTO

Vince Forte has served as the CTO of Marktech since the company’s founding in 1985. As CTO, Mr. Forte leads all R&D, applications engineering, testing and evaluation, custom design development, failure analysis and quality initiatives for Marktech’s full portfolio of optoelectronics and LED technologies.

A more than 35-year veteran of the optoelectronics space, Mr. Forte leads all development of new and enhanced LED, photodetector, emitter, and related hybrid technologies. He is known for his applications engineering expertise in LiDAR, medical and consumer-grade wearables, industrial automation, defense, process control, safety and security, and medical equipment. Under his leadership, Marktech has become globally renowned for its proven capabilities to produce custom LEDs, detector components, and assemblies in virtually any quantity.

Barry Jones

Business Unit Manager, Marktech West

Barry Jones joined Marktech in 2014 with more than 35 years of experience in the design and manufacture of optoelectronics detection and RF microelectronic devices. Barry has overseen the design and construction of several microelectronic production facilities for the optoelectronics industry, including several clean rooms, and has experience in the setup of high-volume microelectronic assembly lines overseas. Before joining Marktech, his positions included CEO, general manager, and board member of Pacific Silicon Sensor, Inc., and production and operations manager at Centro Vision Inc.

Gary Kardys

Global Marketing & Business Development Manager

Gary J. Kardys, with a robust materials and metallurgical engineering background from RPI, has demonstrated his adaptability and versatility by seamlessly transitioning his technical expertise into high-impact marketing and business development roles. As the Global Marketing & Business Development Manager at Marktech Optoelectronics, his innovative strategies have significantly expanded the company’s market presence and customer engagement. Since joining Marktech in 2021, he has revitalized the company’s outreach campaigns and website, leading to a surge in domestic and international inquiries.

Gary’s strategic initiatives include the intelligent integration of SEO, SEM, and sophisticated sales intelligence and automation software, which have increased online visibility and improved customer engagement through targeted digital marketing campaigns coupled with exhibition booths at several leading semiconducotor, photonics, and sensor events. His efforts culminated in the successful entry and victory of Marktech’s Atlas Package in a prestigious national aerospace competition, underscoring his ability to lead and innovate.

Previously, as a Principal Engineer and Editor at IEEE, and through various engineering roles at General Electric, Saint-Gobain, and IHS Markit, Gary developed crucial industry insights and technical content that have enriched his approach to business development  His career is distinguished by numerous patents and contributions to composites, manufacturing processes, and abrasives, demonstrating his profound influence on technology and engineering sectors. Gary has materials and metallurgical engineering degrees (B.S., M.S.) from RPI.

Gako Araki, PHD

Ultra-High-Speed (5G) R&D, Marktech Optoelectronics Japan

Dr. Gako Araki leads the dedicated Marktech team for ultra-high-speed (5G) applications R&D, based in Japan. He is a 25-year recognized technical subject matter expert in the development of ultra-high-speed InP HBT and HEMT epitaxial crystal growth technologies. A member of the Marktech team since 2010, Dr. Araki’s past experience also includes a progressive series of R&D tenures at both the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), and NTT Advance Technology Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy (Science) degrees, all from Gakushūin University in Tokyo.

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