Peter C. Schultz, Ph.D., is co-inventor of the fiber optics now used worldwide for telecommunications. He is an internationally-recognized scientist and has received numerous awards for his technical achievements. In 1993 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton for his accomplishments (the highest technology award of the US government). Since 1991, he has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is an expert in fiber optic technology (including telecommunication fibers and both terrestrial and undersea deployment, as well as specialty fibers for sensors) and general materials technology. Since 2001 he has provided technical and business consulting services to numerous companies (including Intel, Sematech International, Yazaki, Furukawa and SPI Lasers plc) and expert witness for several law firms, through Peter Schultz Consulting, LLC. He served (2001–2019) as senior advisor and sole outside Board member of OFS Fitel (the $500 million AT&T fiber optics business unit acquired by Furukawa in 2001) and as Board member, Secretary and advisor (2010-2019) of viNGN (Virgin Islands Next Generation Network), a government-owned company building and operating an open access all-fiber telecom system in the US Virgin Islands. He served on the Technical Advisory Board of a six year $10 million project sponsored by the British government to develop the next generation of fiber communication technology (2010 through 2016). He is also President of a research company (BioSensor Inc., founded in 1997) developing several novel medical sensors and treatments based on Russian technology. One of these treatments for ASD shows promise and is currently undergoing formal clinical trials.