About us

Kazem Zandi has been the founder and CEO of OSCP since the company was founded. As an entrepreneur, he has led business development, strategic partnerships and funding activities while maturing the technology and putting together the core team. Prior to OSCP he worked at C2MI as a senior process engineer for 3 years and at Defence R&D Canada as a senior optoelectronics devices engineer for two years.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Physics in the field of Micro-Photonics from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal university, where his research focus was on the development of Integrated-Optics based Inertial Sensors (Accelerometers and Gyroscopes). He also holds a Master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics in the field of Photonics.

Holding 12 patents, he has over 20 years of industrial experience in Lasers, Photonics, Optoelectronics and MEMS devices, with hands-on experience in MEMS and microsystems.

Ziad Shukri is the Director of Engineering at OSCP, bringing more than 25+ years of extensive experience in semiconductor devices development and commercialization scale up. He has brought to market multiple products from conception to high volume production.

Working for 9 years at Teledyne DALSA, Ziad was responsible for new product introduction of custom CCD image sensors for high-speed imaging for aerospace and industrial applications, with the focus on foundry process integration, yield, and reliability. While there, he also managed automotive MEMS pressure sensors and accelerometers foundry product introduction and product yield. Earlier in his career, Ziad was fab manager at Group VI Semiconductor, and manufacturing manager at Redlen Technologies and Anrad corporation (now Analogic). He also consulted for 5NPlus and Hologic.

Ziad holds a Masters and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering (in the field of Materials and Devices) both from McGill University.

Thibaut Gravey is the Product Manager at OSCP, where he leads the definition, refinement and delivery of the company’s advanced inertial sensing solutions. He oversees product definition, drives lifecycle decisions and aligns technical teams with market requirements and ensures that OSCP’s innovations translate into scalable, user-focused products.

Formerly an Embedded Systems Engineer at OSCP, Thibaut has played a central role in product development, leading the design and implementation of the company’s embedded software architecture, sensor calibration pipelines and real-time signal processing stack.

Prior to joining OSCP, Thibaut worked on high-performance embedded systems using FPGAs and MCUs across various research projects and consulting missions. His work spanned soft-processors, quantum-inspired computing platforms, ultra-fast data transmission systems and tightly integrated hardware-software architectures for advanced data acquisition.

He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal with a focus on Embedded Systems and Real-Time Operating Systems. With a deep understanding of both hardware and software, Thibaut brings a unique blend of hands-on technical expertise and product vision, enabling tight integration between engineering execution and customer needs.

Cornel is the founding partner of 2050 Capital and focuses on the UK/EU market. Among other deals, Cornel led the seed investment rounds in Hadean (distributed HPC), AMFG (digital factory software), Vaticle (knowledge graph type db and query language), and Origin Sciences (DNA sequencing cancer diagnostics). Cornel serves on several boards and advisory committees.

Complementary to 2050 Capital, Cornel heads the Chicago Booth Angels London chapter, was instrumental to scaling the investment group globally, and is involved with various University of Chicago venture initiatives.

In his earlier career Cornel built and scaled two ventures in the USA to multi-million exits, was a strategy and deal consultant with L.E.K. in London, and a corporate VC with the World Gold Council. Cornel also worked on energy transition engagements with Fieldstone Capital. Prior to settling in London, Cornel lived and worked in the USA for over a decade and in China & South-East Asia for four years. Cornel holds a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Luis Dussan is a technologist and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in electro-optical system design, advanced sensing, and intelligent vision technologies. He has led innovations in optical design, beam steering, adaptive optics, LADAR, laser physics, and complex simulation systems, helping bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world applications.

As the founder of multiple ventures, including AEye, Luis has guided teams from concept to commercialization, with particular focus on mobility, defense, and safety-critical applications. His expertise spans algorithm development, high-energy laser systems, and robotic vision, where his work has influenced next-generation sensing platforms.

At OSCP, Luis serves as an advisor, bringing his technical insight and entrepreneurial perspective to support the company’s growth and strategic direction. He is committed to advancing technologies that create lasting impact across industries while mentoring the next generation of innovators.

Etienne Deffarges is a former San Francisco, California based senior business executive and entrepreneur, who is now retired from full time work and serves on half a dozen boards. He was a Senior Partner with Booz Allen Hamilton; a Global Managing Partner with Accenture, participating in the company’s then leading IPO in the NYSE in 2001; and co-founded a health care technology services company, R1-RCM, leading its IPO in New York. In addition to the Accenture and R1 IPOs, he has been involved in five other exits, with technology and health care start-ups he coached as an advisor or board member.

He holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar; A MS from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a French Government Fellow; and a BS/MS degree from ISAE/Sup'Aero in Toulouse, France, in aeronautical and aerospace engineering.