Mark Nelson    

Chief Commercial Officer

Mark Nelson was named Chief Commercial Officer in May 2025. He brings to Coherent more than 35 years of broad semiconductor industry experience in sales, marketing, and field application engineering (FAE).

Most recently, Mr. Nelson was Senior Vice President at Lattice Semiconductor, where he led global teams responsible for sales, application engineering, and customer service. He was instrumental in the transformation of the sales and FAE teams to successfully drive growth, acquire new customers, enhance the customer experience, and develop new partner-led routes to market. Prior to Lattice, Mr. Nelson held senior leadership roles at Intel, Altera, and LSI Logic.

Mr. Nelson holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Valparaiso University in Indiana and serves on its Engineering National Council.