How Tim Jenks completed an acquisition to grow NeoPhotonics on a global platform

Back in 2003, the telecommunications industry was going through what Timothy Jenks describes as a “downturn and compression,” as large equipment manufacturing companies — his customers — increasingly consolidated and reduced their vendor base to manage costs. The result was that many companies in the telecommunications components industry, which NeoPhotonics Corp. occupied, were being put […]

How to network with a purpose and focus on what you want to accomplish

Donna Fisher had written about networking already and wasn’t necessarily looking to write another book about it –— until Jerry Teplitz asked her to collaborate with him on an element of networking that had never been written about before. The result was “Switched-on Networking: Balance your Brain for Networking Success,” a 253-page book that shows […]