Advanced Photonix creates 25 jobs in Ann Arbor, plans for 100 more

Concentrate, 7/31/2008

Advanced Photonix is hopping, skipping and jumping as it moves forward; creating dozens of jobs in Ann Arbor.

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There's 'job creation' and then there is job, creation. Ann Arbor-based Advanced Photonix practices the latter.

The facts are these: Advanced Photonix and its University of Michigan spin-off subsidiary Picometrix (circa 1992) employ 170 people. About half of those people are based out of Ann Arbor. In the last 18 months the company has created 25 new jobs in Ann Arbor and plans to hire another 100 people in the next 3 to 5 years.

"All of our technology development comes out of Ann Arbor," says Rob Risser, CFO of Advanced Photonix and the president and GM of Picometrix.

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