iPronics named co-founder and former technology chief Daniel Pérez-López as CEO on October 27, replacing Christian Dupont after two years, Economía Digital and Alicante Plaza reported. Both outlets also reported that Geoffrey Tate, a former senior AMD executive and founder of Rambus, became chair of the board. The articles give no separate effective date for either appointment.
Pérez-López helped found iPronics in 2019 as a spin-off from the Universitat Politècnica de València and had led its technology work as CTO. His experience is closely tied to the company’s product: programmable photonics and reconfigurable integrated photonic circuits. The company develops optical circuit-switching systems based on silicon photonics, designed for high-speed connections in data-center infrastructure.
A leadership change at the point of scale-up
The appointment follows a $125 million funding round completed in September, with strategic participation from Nvidia, according to both regional business outlets. They described the leadership changes as part of a move toward commercial production and larger-scale deployment. That is useful context for the handoff: the person who helped create the technology is now responsible for leading the company as it works to bring it to market.
Tate’s board appointment adds a different kind of experience. He spent a decade at AMD, later became founding CEO of Rambus and helped build Flex Logix, which Analog Devices acquired in 2024. The coverage linked his chair role to production and commercialization, while Pérez-López’s technical background connects directly to the photonics platform.
For readers following the executive side of technology companies, the change is a founder’s move from technical leadership into the top operating role, paired with a board chair who has taken technology businesses through growth stages. The site covered another CEO succession yesterday when Lamda Development named Evi Kostaki as its next CEO. The paths differ, but both stories show why a successor’s prior role matters to understanding the handoff.
Announcing the CEO and board-chair changes together pairs a technical founder in the operating role with an experienced technology executive in governance. The reporting presents this structure as support for moving from product development toward industrial production, while offering no timetable for commercial milestones. For now, the confirmed shift is in leadership responsibilities; the pace of customer deployment remains to be seen.
