Santa Rosa's Triformix names new president

<p>Triformix, a Santa Rosa tech company that makes precision optical components for a variety of industries, said Wednesday that Russ Stiles has been named president. </p><p>Stiles succeeds Josephine Yuen, who has left the company. </p><p>Stiles was a co-founder of Triformix in 2001 and has served as the company’s chief technology officer and director of operations. </p><p>He was an optical engineering manager at Santa Rosa’s Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. and JDS Uniphase before starting Triformix. </p><p>Triformix bought an optical lens business from JDSU in 2004. </p><p>Venture-funded Triformix has 35 employees in Santa Rosa and two in Singapore, where it has a sales office. It makes fiber optic components, computer peripherals and instrumentation and imaging parts for the telecommunications, avionics, automotive, defense, office, medical and other industries.</p>