Leadership Team

Kevin Ilcisin was named Luna's President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors on August 1, 2024. Mr. Ilcisin is the co-founder of the advisory firm Juniper Strategies. Prior to founding Juniper, Mr. Ilcisin served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at National Instruments where he led several acquisitions as well as the sale of National Instruments to Emerson.  Prior to National Instruments, he was the Chief Technology officer of Tektronix, a subsidiary of Fortive, a spin-off of Danaher Corporation, where he managed strategic planning and technology growth initiatives.

Mr. Ilcisin has also held several general management and technology executive roles in the semiconductor equipment, consumer electronics, and energy research industries, including start-ups and scale ups.  

Mr. Ilcisin holds a Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Plasma Physics from Princeton University and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with Distinction from the University of Alberta.
 

Will Denman joined Luna on May 1,2024 as Senior Vice President, General Manager, Optical Communications Testing Business Unit and brings over 20 years of experience in developing and leading world class strategic sales and marketing organizations. Most recently, Mr. Denman served as the Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at National Instruments where he was responsible for the company's full $1.7B in revenue and a team of 600 people. 

Mr. Denman is known as a skilled developer of talent and as a leader that transformed the National Instrument’s Go-To-Market organization, resulting in sustained multi-year growth and significant customer impact amongst many of the world's most prominent companies. He holds a MBA from the University of Denver, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Computer Science minor from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ryan H. Stewart joined Luna in January 2024 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Mr. Stewart leads all legal, compliance, and regulatory matters, as well as actively participates in Board of Directors matters.

Prior to joining the Luna team, Mr. Stewart served as General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer and Corporate Secretary of TMEIC Corporation Americas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba and Mitsubishi-Electric, where he managed all legal functions, and provided a broad range of high-level risk management advice and counsel to a diversified global industrial solutions enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Stewart was the Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE: AOI), a global agricultural concern, and a lawyer in the Corporate and Securities practice group of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP (now Womble Bond Dickinson). Mr. Stewart holds a J.D. in Business Law from Elon University and a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Lawrence University.