News: Optoelectronics
6 January 2025
NUBURU announces board and committee appointments
NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and develops and manufactures high-power industrial blue lasers — has increased the size of its board of directors from four to six with the appointment of Dario Barisoni and Shawn Taylor for a term expiring at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders (or until a respective successor is duly elected and qualified). They will also each serve on the board’s Audit Committee.
Barisoni will also serve on the board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Taylor will serve on the Compensation Committee. He has over two decades of expertise in the technology sector, with a focus on optoelectronics, electronics and international business. His career spans senior leadership roles across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with a track record in market expansion, mergers & acquisitions, internationalization, and establishing international joint ventures and partnerships.
Barisoni has served as co-founder & managing director of Bionexus (a start-up with a focus on mergers & acquisitions in the healthcare sector) since 2024, and managing partner of 2Invest (an investment company with focus in the energy, technology, IT sectors and financial services) since 2023. Previously, from 2012 to 2023, he served as CEO Middle East & Asia to SIAE Microelectronica. As regional CEO, Barisoni established and expanded several subsidiaries across Asia and the Middle East, led multi-million-dollar telecom infrastructure projects, spearheaded sales & business development for Aisa and the Middle East, and led legal, financial, operational, sales and human resources departments.
Prior to this role, he has held executive positions for a range of European-based technology manufacturing companies including Germany’s Rohde & Schwarz, Marconi plc and Pirelli Cables and Systems (now Prysmian). Barisoni has also served as a board member of the Italian Business Council UAE (a Dubai organization that associates all of the Italian enterprises operating or doing business in the country) since 2021; and as a board member of the Italian Chamber of Commerce to South East Asia since 2009. Barisoni holds an Executive MBA from POLIMI Graduate School of Management in Milan, Italy, and a Master of Science in Optoelectronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.
Taylor is a seasoned fractional chief financial officer with over 20 years of experience in SaaS technology, media, and high-value intellectual property sectors.
With a track record in both start-up and scale-up environments, he has played pivotal roles in venture capital-funded and publicly traded companies. His expertise encompasses corporate finance, initial public offerings, equity and debt financings, strategic restructurings, and merger & acquisition transactions. He has served as chief financial officer for a range of Europe-based entities including Eight Capital Partners plc, an international financial services operating company, since December 2023.
Prior to working with Eight Capital Partners, Taylor served as chief financial officer for the following companies: Bolt Global Media Ltd from August 2022 to December 2023; Quickmove Ltd. from January 2021 to February 2022; Gibbs Hybrid Ltd from August 2019 to December 2020; and Abal plc (formerly Imaginatik plc) from August 2005 to August 2019. Career highlights include spearheading the IPO of Imaginatik on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market, scaling businesses to significant revenue growth and negotiating high-value trade sales. He has been a fellow of and is a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales since 1990. Taylor has a BSc in Geography from Kings College, London University.
