Aeluma, Inc. Leadership

Craig Ensley serves as one of Aeluma's directors and chairs the compensation committee. He has built and led global semiconductor businesses spanning Analog & DSP, MEMS & Sensors, Communications (RF/Wireless, Optical and Wired) and Consumer, most recently serving as CEO or President of three venture-backed companies that he repositioned to drive growth and profitability. He was previously CEO of Atomica (formerly IMT), CEO of DisplayLink and President of Peregrine Semiconductor, and earlier helped restructure Cirrus Logic and helped start Crystal Semiconductor and Rockwell International's communications semiconductor business (subsequently spun out as Conexant, Mindspeed and Jazz). He currently serves as a board director of Mentium Technologies and on the Governing Council of the MEMS & Sensors Industry Group. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. in Applied Physics and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at San Diego.

Michael Byron has served as one of Aeluma's directors since February 24, 2025, and is a member of the audit committee and the compensation committee. He retired as Vice President of Finance Operations & Systems at NVIDIA Corporation in December 2024, having originally joined NVIDIA in 2002 and served in various finance and accounting leadership positions over 22 years, including as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from 2011 to 2019. Prior to NVIDIA he held finance and accounting roles at public technology companies after spending eight years as an auditor at Deloitte. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Economics from UC Santa Barbara and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1990.

Steven P. DenBaars has served on the board of Biond Photonics (now Aeluma) since June 5, 2021, and is a director of the company. He is a Distinguished Professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1991-present) and has helped co-found several photonics and electronics startups, including Nitres Inc. (acquired by Cree Inc. in 2000) and SLD Laser (acquired by Kyocera Corporation in 2021), and assisted in the founding of Akoustis Technologies. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors, and an Optica Fellow, and has authored or co-authored over 1,200 technical publications and more than 193 patents. He holds a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Arizona and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

John Paglia has served as one of Aeluma's directors and the chair of the audit committee since November 30, 2021. He is also an independent board director and audit committee chair for Simulations Plus, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLP) and an advisor to venture capital firms and startup companies. After 25 years with Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business, he retired in July 2025 as Professor Emeritus of Finance, and previously served as a consultant to the Library of Congress and testified before the U.S. Congress as an expert on the Small Business Administration's private equity and venture capital program. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Kentucky, an MBA and a B.S. in Finance from Gannon University, and is a Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst and NACD Directorship Certified.

Jonathan Klamkin is the founder of Aeluma and has served as its President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a director since February 28, 2019, when the company operated as Biond Photonics (later renamed Aeluma). He is also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2015-present), where his group conducts research in integrated photonics and optoelectronics for communications and sensing applications. Earlier in his career he was with BinOptics Corp. (2001-2002), a laser diode manufacturer later acquired by Macom. He has published more than 200 papers, holds several patents, and is a recipient of the NASA Young Faculty Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award and the DARPA Director's Fellowship. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Christopher Stewart was appointed Aeluma's full-time Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer effective August 4, 2025, succeeding interim CFO James Seo. Prior to joining the company he was Chief Financial Officer of LeddarTech Holdings Inc., an AI-driven software company that he led through its transition to a publicly traded company, and before that Chief Financial Officer of Bionano Genomics, Inc. He previously held leadership roles at Maxwell Technologies (acquired by Tesla in 2019), Entropic Communications (acquired by MaxLinear in 2015) and Intel Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.

James Seo served as Aeluma's interim Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer from March 18, 2025 to August 4, 2025, and had served as the company's Controller since May 2023. Prior to joining Aeluma he served as Financial Analyst, Compliance and Reporting at Transphorm, Inc. from January 2020 to April 2023, where he was involved in Transphorm's 2020 public listing through an alternative public offering and its 2022 Nasdaq uplisting, and led its annual SOX 404 financial statement mapping, risk assessment and scoping process. He holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.