Our Management Team

Saverio Maldari, Founder and Chairman
Sam has over 40 years experience in analytical instrumentation and optics. He has provided our company with a vision to become a world class leader in the optics industry. He has established our corporate objectives for superior quality, first class service, developing employees, and growing our technical knowledge base all objectives necessary to meet the challenges in our industry for the 21st century. Along with our employees he has helped to create a company that is enthusiastic to partner with our customers in providing innovative, quality systems.

David Maldari, President
dmaldari@opcolab.com
Dave’s expertise is comprehensive in all areas of precision optic manufacturing technology, from fabrication through coatings. During his 25 plus years at OPCO, he continually improves our manufacturing facility so that it remains state-of-the-art. Dave is committed to a leading edge manufacturing process that benefits our customers with a cost-effective, high precision product.

Robert Moody, Director Sales & Marketing

rmoody@opcolab.com

Bob has 20 years of domestic and international sales, marketing, and product management experience in optical based scanning technologies, and electro-optic assemblies, for the commercial and defense markets. Please feel free to contact him directly to discuss our extensive capabilities, services, and solutions for your existing and future optical and laser based products.

Peter Papadopoulos, Fabrication Department Manager

ppapadopoulos@opcolab.com

Peter has been a driving force in our fabrication department since his start with OPCO in 1996. He brings over 30 years in optical fabrication experience and innovation to our company allowing us to compete by using leading edge techniques, equipment, and materials. Peter is always up to the challenge of meeting specifications that push optical performance to new limits, which results in products with precision and repeatability, that are cost-effective and on-time.

John Keller, Coating Department Manager
jkeller@opcolab.com
John joined OPCO in 2000 and has over 25 years experience in optical coating technology. His skillful management of our coating department allows us to engineer and process sophisticated coatings with maximum quality and precision.

Eugenio Pereira, Integrated Optics Manager

epereira@opcolab.com

Eugenio is a pioneer and innovator of optical replication process technologies. He brings 30 years of unmatched experience in the replication of precision reflective and transmissive optics, diffraction gratings, and electro-optical assemblies to OPCO. He provides our customers with unique, and value added solutions to manufacturing high performance optical components.

Jan Kemp, Process Engineer and Quality Control Manager
jkemp@opcolab.com
Jan has been a dedicated member of our team since 1985. Her experience with most every aspect of our manufacturing process along with her commitment to quality gives our customers assured product performance.

Arlene Pasakinskas, Accounting
info@opcolab.com
Arlene has been with OPCO since 1999 and lends accuracy, expediency, and courteous service to all our customers and vendors.