Capek joined the Corporate Engineering function in Corning, New York as a design engineer in 1986 where he worked on numerous glass melting process projects. He relocated to the Harrodsburg, Kentucky plant in 1989 as a member of the first joint development program with Samsung Corning in the position of melting engineer.

In 1990, he moved into the plant operations group as melting department head and was appointed production department head in 1994. While at the Harrodsburg plant, Capek entered the division engineering group as melting technology manager, responsible for many fundamental improvements in the melting process. He was appointed Harrodsburg plant operations manager in 1999 and plant manager in 2000, where he helped transform the plant into a fully dedicated display flat glass melting and forming facility.

Capek relocated to Corning, New York in 2003 as division engineering manager for Display Technologies and, in 2004, was named director of Division Engineering. In 2010, Capek was appointed division vice president and director of engineering for the glass technology group, and in May 2014, moved into the position of vice president and chief engineer for Corning, Manufacturing Technology and Engineering. He was appointed senior vice president and chief engineer in November 2018 and works closely with many engineering schools to ensure a strong pipeline of engineering talent for Corning.

Mr. Capek received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-RPI and his bachelor’s degree in physics from SUNY Oneonta.