Luna Innovations Incorporated announced that Brian J. Soller has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. Soller will support President and CEO, Scott A. Graeff, in developing the company’s strategy and executing Luna’s vision to “Enable the Future with Fiber”. In this new position, Soller will play a crucial role in developing and implementing the company’s strategic plan, including a focus on optimizing operational efficiency to continue to drive sustainable, profitable growth. Soller has more than two decades of experience and has held numerous executive and leadership roles, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Lightwave, the largest division within Luna. In this role, he has overseen all aspects of the division’s product strategy and development, sales, marketing and manufacturing operations. Early in his career, Soller co-developed the instrumentation for fiber optic devices manufactured by Luna today. He has multiple patents in optics with an expertise in the interferometric measurement field.