Derek W. Bailey is CEO and Founder of True Photonic, Inc., a photonic computing company developing femtosecond-scale optical switching technology independently validated at Technion University in Israel at 150-200 femtoseconds—three to four times faster than any previously reported result.

Bailey has been an entrepreneur for more than four decades, building ventures across hospitality, real estate, insurance, staffing, and technology. His companies include OnPoint Staffing, Curbside Chef, International Broadband Technologies (video over copper wire), Popa Media (digital billboards with integrated VoIP), and WolvertonBailey, Inc., which developed the patented Counterpoise engine. He is also founder of Derek Automotive Technologies, developing parallel-hybrid self-charging electric vehicles.

His twenty-seven-year partnership with Del Wolverton has produced multiple patents across ventures. When Dr. Gary Poovey entrusted them with his breakthrough materials science—the organic semiconductor architecture that makes photonic computing practical—Bailey structured True Photonic around a promise: to build an ethical company that shares value with the communities hosting its infrastructure.

True Photonic now leads a multi-entity structure including the core platform, SkyLight Holdings (Clean Compute Centers), and True Photonic Ventures (vertical applications in robotics, drones, blockchain, internet-in-light, and beyond). The patent portfolio spans fifteen filings with more than eight hundred claims.

Keep Computing is his first book.

Contact: dbailey@truephotonic.com