Steve’s recent years were spent as Executive Officer, Global R&D & Chief Technical Officer of Menicon Co., Ltd. He began his career in Hydron Inc, helping develop the Zero 6 range of lenses and establishing contact lens manufacturing facilities around the world. He was responsible for establishing SE Asia’s first contact lens cast moulding plant in Singapore, where he served in research and then MD roles after SE Asian expansion had been instigated. He also served as 1800 Contact’s Chief Technical Officer prior joining Menicon. He has 50 years of experience in the contact lens industry, ranging across the areas of research, manufacturing and lens design. He holds numerous patents in the fields of complex and high order aberration managed contact lens designs, manufacturing methods, materials and contact lens packaging. He has published and lectured in the field of contact lenses and related technologies around the world. He is interested in the fields of myopia and aging and how they may be influenced by novel means of cellular stimulation, particularly in the field of photobiomodulation and its impact on mitochondria and how this may positively impact the eye.