Robert P. Breault is Chairman and founder of the Breault Research Organization, Inc. (BRO), an optical engineering software developer and consulting company. He is co-chairman of the Arizona Optics Industry Association (AOIA) and one of AOIA's representatives to the Coalition for Photonics and Optics (CPO). He is one of three SPIE international representatives on the United States Advisory Committee/International Commission for Optics (USAC/ICO).

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.

Breault is a Fellow and Senior member of OSA. He received the 2014 Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award “for pioneering leadership in the formation of global optics industry clusters.”