Beck Mason

Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Devices

Beck Mason joined Coherent in 2023 as Executive Vice President, Telecommunications, and was named EVP, Semiconductor Devices, in 2025. Prior to joining Coherent, Dr. Mason was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Telecom Transmission business at Lumentum, where he also worked on technology strategy. He joined Lumentum in 2018 through the acquisition of Oclaro, where he was President of the Integrated Photonics business.

Prior to Oclaro, Dr. Mason held leadership positions at JDSU, Collinear, Finisar, Agere Systems, and Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. While at Bell Labs, his research was focused on high-speed compound semiconductor photonic devices for fiber-optic communications. Prior to joining Bell Labs, he was a co-founder of Agility Communications (later acquired by JDSU), which was one of the first companies to commercialize tunable lasers for WDM fiber-optic communications. 

Dr. Mason holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he developed novel InP-based photonic integrated devices, most notably some of the first monolithic widely tunable semiconductor lasers for telecom applications.