Dr. Yanming Liu is President and CEO of Salira Systems, Inc. He has held several management positions, including VP, Business Development at Optovia and VP, Marketing and Strategic Development at Walsin Management Company.

Prior to this, Dr. Liu was Director, Communication Electronics and Integration in Corning Incorporated. Prior to that, he held several management positions in Corning, as Manager of International Market Development Engineering, Program Manager of Metro Fiber, as well as Manager of Access Fiber in the Optical Fiber Division. Earlier, Dr. Liu was inventor and one of the principal developers of Cornings award-winning LEAF fiber. Subsequently, he led the international technical marketing of the LEAF fiber, which became a multi-billion dollar product line. LEAF fiber has been selected as one of the most important product developments in the fiber optics industry and deployed on 6 of the earths 7 continents.

Dr. Yanming Liu has an MBA degree from MITs Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellow (sponsored by Corning) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He also received M.S.E. and B.S.E. degrees in Precision Instruments Engineering from Tianjin University in China.