Milton Chang has an exceptional investment track record, and founded Incubic to institutionalize this approach in a venture capital and management advisory firm.

Milton has personally built Newport Corporation and New Focus Inc., to successful IPO, as CEO, and has provided the first capital to more than a dozen high-tech startup companies, all were successful. He is helpful to entrepreneurs and his operating principle is fairness. Having been an entrepreneur, he is effective as a sounding board to provide advice to entrepreneurs.

He is active in the technical and business community and has received a number of prestigious awards from professional societies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Optical Society of America, and the Laser Institute of America, and a former President of IEEE Photonics Society and LIA. He is well-known for sharing his experience freely and writes monthly business columns for Laser Focus World and contributes articles to Photonics Spectra.

Milton earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the University of Illinois, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the California Institute of Technology and completed the Harvard OPM Program. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from both the University of Illinois and Caltech and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Caltech and an Overseer of the Huntington Library.