The camera brand your grandparents trusted now etches microchips, prints jet parts in metal, and photographs living cells. In 2026 that pivot is running at a loss - and Nikon says that is the point.
Paul Scagnetti is the CEO of ONI (Oxford Nanoimaging), the Oxford spin-out behind the Nanoimager, the first desktop super-resolution microscope to see single molecules at 20 nanometer resolution. A mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT and 25+ years in life sciences and instruments, he left a job he loved at Illumina in February 2023 to bet that making Nobel-grade imaging simple enough for any lab would change drug discovery. In January 2025 he shipped the Aplo Scope, which he calls the biggest launch in ONI's history.