Fariba Danesh Biography and Net Worth

Fariba Danesh is the Chief Operating Officer at PsiQuantum and has more than thirty years of experience in novel semiconductor product development. Ms. Danesh also served as the CEO and Managing Director of Glo from 2010-2019. Glo was a venture-backed microLED display company using nanotechnology developed in Sweden to make the world’s first full RGB microLED small displays. Ms. Danesh has deep semiconductor experience in a large spectrum of semiconducting materials including compound semiconductors and power semi. During her tenure at Glo, she built a team and a fab facility from the ground up which vertically integrated all aspects of a microLED product using nanotechnology, from epitaxy wafers, to devices, to fully integrated sub-systems. Prior to Glo, Ms. Danesh held multiple Executive and General Manager positions with significant R&D, Product Development and Operational responsibility at Avago Technology, Maxtor Technology, Finisar, Genoa, Sanmina, and Seagate Technology. As COO of Finisar and EVP Global Ops at Maxtor she led a workforce of more than 14,000 and at Avago she had full P&L responsibility for the $400M per year photonics business. Ms. Danesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Santa Clara University.