Kurt von Hausen

Vice President of Sales at Lightmatter

United States

About

Sales leader with strong success building high growth field sales and applications teams. A proven track record securing strategic design wins and revenue growth with extensive industry expertise in computing, networking/telecom, security, and automotive.

Experience

  • Vice President of Sales, Datacenter Accounts at Lightmatter
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Lightmatter is building photonic computing products including Passage - the world’s first 3D-stacked silicon photonics engine.

  • Marvell Technology (17 yrs 7 mos)
    • Sr. Director of Sales, North America Automotive Sales
      Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 · 8 mos

      Leading sales team for all U.S. Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers

    • Sr. Director of Sales, North America East and Central
      Feb 2008 - Jan 2025 · 17 yrs

      Lead North America East & Central sales team winning designs and growing revenue with networking, service provider, and automotive customers. Marvell acquired Cavium, Inc. in July 2018.

  • Cavium Inc (Greater Boston Area)
    • Sr. Director of Sales, North America East & Central
      Aug 2016 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs

      Cavium acquired by Marvell in 2018

    • Sr. Director of Sales, NA-East, Central and EMEA
      Jul 2013 - Aug 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Director of Sales, NA-East & Central
      Oct 2010 - Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • District Sales Manager at Altera
    Jul 2004 - Feb 2008 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Programmable logic semiconductor sales District Sales Manager - Rockies Strategic Account Manager - Alcatel NA & Hewlett-Packard in Dallas, TX

  • Account Manager at Intel Corporation
    Jan 1998 - Jun 2004 · 6 yrs 6 mos

    Processor and communications semiconductor sales Account Manager leading North America sales for Alcatel in Dallas, TX Field Sales Engineer for IBM, Cisco, Nortel in Raleigh, NC