SENSE
AT A GLANCE.
Sense Photonics is creating a new paradigm in 3D vision.
Founded in 2016, our proprietary flash LiDAR produces stunning 3D data and offers unparalleled flexibility for automotive OEMs. With a proven architecture built on scalable VCSEL & SPAD technology, Sense’s new LiDAR platform leapfrogs the competition for exponential advancements in assisted and automated driving.
We are on a mission to democratize 3D vision for a safer, greener, more productive world. And we’re just getting started.
The Five I's
At Sense, we love tackling the biggest challenges facing our customers. To do this, we are driven by the “Five I”s: Innovation, Invention, Integration, Integrity and Inspiration.
1.
Innovation
Our founders started this company by envisioning how a technology reshaping the solar industry could radically advance another, and this type of transformational thinking continues to guide everything we do.
2.
Invention
We have assembled a team of the most creative technical minds in the business – remarkable people who know how to develop new technologies to solve the “unsolvable” problems.
3.
Integration
We believe the sum is greater than the parts, which is why our team is composed of individuals from very diverse backgrounds who come together to bring fresh ideas and approaches to every customer problem we tackle – and everyone is the better for it.
4.
Integrity
We are one team – transparent, honest, collaborative and reliable. We get things done together. We encourage constructive debate, and in doing so we drive to the truth and core first principles.
5.
Inspiration
The collective experience and raw intellect of our team creates endless opportunities for inspiration, and the passion and commitment each team member has toward their work – and just as importantly, each other – motivates all of us to do our best, every time.
Our Accomplishments
FOUNDED
Inception of Sense Flash LiDAR
2016SENSE ILLUMINATOR
LiDAR Floodlight for Vehicles
2018TEAM EXPANSION
Came out of Stealth
2019SENSE SILICON
World's Highest-Resolution 3D CMOS SPAD Imager
2020LiDAR FOR THE ROAD AHEAD
2021Team
WITH A GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

75+
Team members
25%
PhDs
The leaders who
MAKE SENSE.

Shauna F. McIntyre
CEO
Shauna joined Sense as CEO in April 2020, bringing a wealth of technology and automotive experience and a track record of driving innovation in traditional industries.
Prior to Sense, Shauna led Google’s automotive services program and served as Chief of Staff for Google Devices, the company’s rapidly growing consumer electronics business.
Shauna started her career at Ford Motor Company, where she instituted lean manufacturing principles and later led Final Assembly production at a UAW truck plant. She then shifted gears as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she focused on R&D productivity. After McKinsey, Shauna joined Honeywell International in 2002 and rose through the ranks to become VP of the Honeywell (Garrett) Commercial Vehicle Turbocharger platform. While at Honeywell she revamped the product portfolio and infused new investment in product innovation. Shauna then went on to join Achates Power as VP of Strategy, Finance and Operations in 2008 and to lead the US, Automotive & New Mobility Practice at Egon Zehnder from 2013-2016.
In addition to her role as CEO, she also serves on the Board of Directors of Lithia Motors and Electric Last Mile Solutions.
Shauna earned her BS from UCLA in Mechanical Engineering, her MS from UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Shauna F. McIntyre
CEO
Shauna joined Sense as CEO in April 2020, bringing a wealth of technology and automotive experience and a track record of driving innovation in traditional industries.
Prior to Sense, Shauna led Google’s automotive services program and served as Chief of Staff for Google Devices, the company’s rapidly growing consumer electronics business.
Shauna started her career at Ford Motor Company, where she instituted lean manufacturing principles and later led Final Assembly production at a UAW truck plant. She then shifted gears as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she focused on R&D productivity. After McKinsey, Shauna joined Honeywell International in 2002 and rose through the ranks to become VP of the Honeywell (Garrett) Commercial Vehicle Turbocharger platform. While at Honeywell she revamped the product portfolio and infused new investment in product innovation. Shauna then went on to join Achates Power as VP of Strategy, Finance and Operations in 2008 and to lead the US, Automotive & New Mobility Practice at Egon Zehnder from 2013-2016.
In addition to her role as CEO, she also serves on the Board of Directors of Lithia Motors and Electric Last Mile Solutions.
Shauna earned her BS from UCLA in Mechanical Engineering, her MS from UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Senior Leadership

Dan Miller
CFO
Dan is a 30+ year veteran of Silicon Valley who has held senior executive positions at many well-known technology companies including Genentech, Extreme Networks, NetSuite and Fastly.
Most recently, Dan was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Chariot (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Mobility). Dan started off his career at Deloitte and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Dan received his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and his undergraduate degree from John Carroll University.

Anurag Gupta
SVP of Engineering
Anurag Gupta joins the Sense team with proven track record of building and managing fast paced multidisciplinary engineering teams, driving innovation, product definition and design for fast paced technology development, with over 75+ diverse engineering projects completed, 80+ patents granted and 15+ patents pending.
Anurag has been involved in start-to-end product development and shipping of HP’s first DLP TVs and projectors, Google Glass, and all the Nest line of consumer electronics products, among others.
His experience lies deep in simulation-driven engineering for design, optimization, and failure analysis.

Scott Burroughs
Co-founder/Chief Innovation Officer
Scott is both co-founder and co-dreamer here at Sense. He has more than 30 years of commercial and innovative product experience in III-V compound semiconductors and optics.
Before Sense, Scott served as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing and Technology Development at Semprius Corp, Vice President of Engineering at Santur Corporation, Vice President of Technology at Optovia, and as Vice President of Operations at CoreTek, a successful tunable laser start-up acquired by Nortel.
Scott started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he helped to develop and manufacture GaAs semiconductor lasers for the world’s first commercial fiber optic communication systems.

Mark Sandoval
SVP Partnerships & Operations
Mark leads Product and Operations at Sense and has the final word on every pixel and contract. Previously, Mark held leadership positions in engineering, operations, partnerships, product, supply chain, and strategy at sector leaders, including Intel, Lam Research, and SunPower.
In his tenure, Mark has led two growth equity financings, two company acquisitions, a successful company exit, and the establishment of numerous strategic partnerships and supply agreements.

Iain Levy
VP Automotive

Robert Henderson
Chief Science Officer
As Chief Science Officer to Sense, Robert brings his unparalleled experience in CMOS microelectronics, in particular readout electronics for CMOS image sensors and Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs). As Principal Engineer in VLSI Vision Ltd and STMicroelectronics Imaging Division Robert was part of a pioneering team developing the first CMOS image sensors now found in most modern digital cameras and smartphones. In his academic research, Robert invented SPAD image sensors in nanometer CMOS technologies leading to volume SPAD time-of-flight products, recently passing the 1 billion module milestone in STMicroelectronics FlightSense products. Robert currently holds a Professorship in Electronic Imaging at the University of Edinburgh where he leads a research group exploring medical, scientific, and high-speed imaging applications of SPAD technology. Robert is an ERC Advanced Research Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Additional Leadership

Russ Kanjorski
Co-Founder, Government & New Opportunities
Russ Kanjorski brings 25 years of experience from multiple industries through his solar, strategy consulting, finance and legal background. Before co-founding Sense, Russ served in leadership roles at two venture-backed solar photovoltaic companies.
Russ was Vice President of Business Development at Semprius and Vice President of Marketing at Abound Solar, where he led the global business development and go-to-market strategy, landing $1.5 billion in contracted revenue and ramping the business from pre-revenue to a $70 million run rate over 3 years.
Russ has also led four venture equity financings totaling almost $250 million.

Brent Fisher
Founding Scientist
Brent Fisher is a leader and prolific inventor with years of experience at the cutting-edge of numerous technical fields and industries, including optoelectronics and solar energy to materials and defense systems.
Brent has demonstrated expertise in developing and scaling technologies to volume manufacturing and uses strategic analysis and business acumen to identify new opportunities for transitioning technology into the marketplace.
His projects have won millions of dollars in support from both public and private investors in the energy and aerospace industries. Brent provides an uncommon combination of business insight and deep scientific experience.

Aravind Ratnam
Head of Product
Aravind leads Product at Sense. He is a technology and business strategy leader and has deep market expertise in automotive lidar. His career has spanned R&D/engineering, management consulting, and startups with specific focus in strategic product leadership and value creation on top of Edge hardware with software and artificial intelligence. Prior to Sense, Aravind led all aspects of Product at AEye, a leading Lidar company, and before that,served as the product leader roles for connected car solutions at Wind River, an embedded systems company that was part of Intel’s IoT group, where he successfully led corporate strategy and products of the Wind River automotive portfolio.
Aravind also spent several years in management consulting firms, including IB and Monitor Deloitte and and cut his teeth in technology at Cymer (a subsidiary of ASML), a manufacturer of sophisticated UV lasers for semiconductor lithography and at two space agencies- ISRO and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

VP of VCSEL Engineering & Process Development
Jim has 30+ years of experience in engineering and operations roles at leading semiconductor manufacturers. Throughout his career he has led the process development and the transition into manufacturing for silicon and III-V compound semiconductor devices at Mitsubishi, Motorola, Cypress Semiconductor, and JDS Uniphase.
Jim has a BS in Materials Science & Electrical Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell.

Gabe Sibley
Advisor & Board Member
Gabe always has the answers to Sense’s most pressing issues of the day. Gabe Sibley is the founder and CEO of Verdant Robotics, Inc., a robotics technology company focused on revolutionizing agriculture through the latest advances in AI, robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. In his previous roles, Gabe was CEO of Zippy Inc., an autonomous delivery company acquired by GM-Cruise, and chief science officer at the autonomous taxi company Zoox, Inc., where he helped grow the team to over 200.
Gabe is also currently on leave as an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Colorado, was formerly a post-doctoral research assistant at Oxford University, a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California, and technical staff in the Computer Vision Group at NASA-JPL.

John A. Rogers
Advisor
Professor John A. Rogers received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.
He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from the end of 2000 to 2002. He then spent thirteen years on the faculty at University of Illinois, most recently as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.
In the Fall of 2016, he joined Northwestern University as the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, with affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry, where he is also Director of the recently endowed Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. He has published more than 750 papers, is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents and he has co-founded several successful technology companies.
His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), and most recently the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019). He is one of only ~30 individuals in history to be elected to membership of all three US national academies – the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine.

Niel Ransom
Advisor
Niel Ransom is a Partner of WRVI Capital — a technology venture fund established in 2019 focused on accelerating the monetization and scaling of disruptive companies globally. Niel founded Ransomshire Associates, Inc in 2005 – an advisory firm focused on enabling early-stage companies to achieve business growth and successful exits.
Before Ransomshire, Niel served as the Chief Technology Officer of Alcatel, where he directed a staff of 1200 scientists and engineers comprising Alcatel’s research, corporate strategy, intellectual property, and R&D investment organizations. Before joining Alcatel, he led the Advanced Technology Systems Center at BellSouth. He started his career at Bell Laboratories, where he headed various development and applied research organizations. He is Chairman of Saguna Networks and a Board Member at OPNT B.V. He serves as Member of the Advisory Board at Bayland Scientific, GenXComm, Sedona Systems, and Servato.
Niel holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a BSEE and MSEE from Old Dominion University as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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