An experienced business/technical leader and technology developer. Founded and grew a novel optical technology company in the manufacturing space until it was acquired by a publicly-traded US multinational. Continues to lead and apply a founder's mindset to managing a national subsidiary with 50+ reports. Practical business experience in technical team-building and recruitment, customer/market and management-facing communication, sales, intellectual property development, product-market fit, P/L responsibility, public companies, M&A, and strategy.Extensive technical knowledge and industry experience with laser welding, process monitoring, optical coherence tomography, industrial vision, 3D imaging, seam tracking, high power optics and applications across the manufacturing spectrum. Authored numerous issued US and international patents, peer-reviewed papers and conference proceedings (Search for Paul J. L. Webster).