Karen Scammell

VP OEM Sales Karen has significant experience leading sales teams globally to drive design-wins, revenue growth, and deliver long-term delighted customers. Karen has worked in plastics, analytical instrumentation, laser micromachining for life science and semiconductor markets. Karen has a BS in Plastics Engineering and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Sascha Häuser

VP Sales

Sascha Häuser has been with us since 2007 and has 15 years of experience in the laser industry where he worked with solid state lasers, disc lasers, CPAs, OPOs, frequency conversion, fiber lasers and supercontinuum. In addition to his technical background, Sascha holds a diploma in Business Administration from FOM Essen.

Ross Hodder

Senior Sales Manager, SuperK OEM

Ross has over 10 years’ experience in sales in the photonics sector working in both scientific and industrial markets. He joined NKT Photonics in 2009, after working for Alstom Transport and BFi Optilas in the UK. Ross has had responsibility for sales, marketing and product management and holds a degree in Physics with Lasers from the University of Southampton, UK.

Martin Laging

Senior Sales Manager, Koheras OEM

Martin joined NKT Photonics in 2018. He has been working in the photonics industry sales since 2004 and served OEM and key accounts in the fiber laser market. Martin received his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Goettingen in 2001.

Nicolai Granzow

Senior Sales Manager, D/A/CH, Materials Science

Nicolai Granzow joined NKT Photonics in 2014, after gaining sales experience in the laser safety business. He received his PhD in physics from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, where he investigated supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers.

Thorge Holm

Sales Manager, D/A/CH, Life Sciences

Thorge Holm joined us in 2017 from a Ph.D. study on super resolution microscopy at the University of Würzburg. He received his diploma in physics from the University of Bielefeld where he worked on a vast variety of Fluorescence techniques such as spectroscopy, FCS, TCSPC, CLSM and SMLM.

Thomas Ferhat

Sales Manager, France

With us since 2014, Thomas Ferhat is responsible for the French market. In his previous position he was in charge of the scientific division for ROFIN Baasel France. In 2012 he obtained a Master degree in Physics and Business from the University of Bordeaux after spending a year at CREOL at the University of Central Florida.

Bruno Lefèvre

Senior Sales Manager, EMEA (excluding France, DACH, Nordics & Baltics) Scientific & Distribution

With a degree in Electronics & Electrical from the University of Cachan and more than 35 years’ experience, Bruno has covered a wide range of positions from R&D to sales – since 2000 in the photonics industry. In 2018, he joined NKT Photonics with a focus on scientific and industrial sales within Benelux, the Mediterranean Basin, and the Eastern Countries.