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Non Executive Directors
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Dr David Fyfe
Chief Executive Officer |
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Dr David Fyfe, a 30-year veteran of the global chemical and engineering industries, joined CDT as Chief Executive Officer in August 2000.
He is experienced in driving commercial businesses and has extensive expertise in negotiating joint ventures, acquisitions and partnerships. Previous positions include senior executive roles in companies on both sides of the Atlantic, including ICI and BF Goodrich.
Dr Fyfe spent three years as CEO of Harris Speciality Chemicals (HSC), headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, USA. This $250 million turnover company had 900 employees, seven manufacturing plants in the U.S., and 11 locations in Europe and Asia. At HSC, Fyfe led a very successful turnaround and subsequent sale of the company to SKW - part of Germany’s Viag Group - on behalf of Kelso & Company, one of the principal investors in CDT.
With a BA and MA from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and a PhD for a dissertation in electrochemistry, Fyfe has chaired and taken part in a number of industry focused government bodies. He has chaired the UK Chemical Industries Association Business and Trade Board, was a member of the UK Department of Trade and Industry’s deregulation taskforce for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and Vice Chairman of the UK CBI Northern Region.
He is currently a member of the UK's Chemistry Leadership Council, focusing on innovation as a regenerator of the UK chemical industry. He is a frequent speaker at display industry conferences. |
Dr Jeremy Burroughes
Chief Technology Officer |
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After submitting his PhD thesis titled ‘The Physical Processes in Organic Semiconductor Polymer Devices’, Dr Burroughes discovered that conjugated polymers such as polyphenylene vinylene could show electroluminescence. A patent was filed by Burroughes and his research fellows shortly afterwards.
With more than ten years’ research experience in conjugated polymer science and semiconductor technologies, Jeremy Burroughes joined CDT in 1997 to manage its new research group. After holding the position of Technical Director for two years he was promoted to Product Business Unit Director in 2000, and then CTO in November 2001.
Previously, Burroughes spent six years with Toshiba in the UK and Japan where he worked on quantum electronic and opto-electronic devices fabricated using GaAs or InP regrowth technology.
Burroughes spent his early career with the Optoelectronics division at the T.J. Watson Research Centre, IBM, after leaving the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. During this two-year post-doctoral position, Burroughes worked on high-speed metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors. Throughout his career he has led a range of successful technical research projects into the materials, devices, structures and processes for the development of full colour PLED displays.
Burroughes has been elected a fellow of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge.
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Dr Scott Brown
Research & Technology Director |
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Dr Scott Brown joined CDT in May 2002. Previously he worked for Dow Corning Corporation, joining them in 1987 as a Research Scientist. During his early career, he gained broad experience, managing pan-European research and development teams. He is familiar with the challenges of a manufacturing environment, having spent two years at Dow Corning's largest manufacturing site in Carrollton, Kentucky. In 1999, Scott moved to Midland, Michigan to take the position of Global Research & Development Director for Dow Corning’s Electronics Business, managing teams in Europe and Japan, as well as the US.
At CDT, Scott is employed as R&T Director and in this role has responsibility to recommend and lead company wide initiatives that ensure that CDT retains its market leadership, not only as a unique IP / technology provider, but also as a first class developer of high specification, high tolerance products, processes and value added services. In leading the Research and Technology groups he ensures that new technologies are identified and developed. Scott is also responsible for CDT's Technology Development Centre, which was built to develop and demonstrate display fabrication processes that prove the excellence of PLED technology.
Scott has a BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Exeter and an MBA from Oxford Brookes University.
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Dr S B Cha
Commercial Director
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Dr S B Cha joined CDT in July 2002. SB gained his first and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering at Colorado School Mines in the USA, followed by a PhD from Imperial College, London. SB also has an MBA from the University of Chicago.
During his early career, S.B worked as a Research Engineer for IUPAC in London and as Project Manager for Texaco in the US. Following his MBA, S.B joined Boston Consulting Group as a Management Consultant.
Most recently S.B has worked with Philips Components in California, initially as VP Customer Development and latterly as VP Strategic Marketing & Business Development. At CDT, S.B is responsible for all commercial activity, including Business Development and Marketing.
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Stephen Chandler
Director, Legal & IP
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Stephen Chandler joined CDT in 2003 as Director for Legal & Intellectual Property, responsible for all legal and intellectual property matters, and for developing CDT’s intellectual property strategy.
Prior to joining CDT, Stephen was a partner at law firm Pinsent Curtis Biddle between 1985 and 2003, being Head of Technology & Media and Head of Intellectual Property from 1999. Stephen joined Pinsent Curtis as an Associate in 1980, having gained an MA degree in Law from Cambridge University.
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Emma Jones
Director, Human Resources and Facilities
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Emma Jones is responsible for leading the Human Resources function as well as managing the facilities functions in the UK.
Prior to joining CDT, Emma was head of Human Resources at Amgen Limited, where she was responsible for the management of the Human Resources function for the UK subsidiary of Amgen Inc, a US
bio-pharmaceutical company. Emma has a BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies from the University of Sheffield.
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Cheryl Garnham
TDC Manager |
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Cheryl Garnham joined CDT in June 2002 and is responsible for managing the Technology Development Centre at Godmanchester. She has over 20 years experience in high technology manufacturing primarily in the field of Optical Fibre, the last 10 years with Pirelli Cables and Systems.
After graduating in chemistry and material science, Cheryl became a development engineer in 1983, managing increasingly large technical teams before taking on broader operational aspects in 1995. She was involved in process development of Optical Fibre for Telecommunications at a very early stage in its commercialization and gained the experience of seeing the inter-relationships between material, equipment and process capability. She holds several patents in this area.
In 1999 she became Director of Fibre Operations for Pirelli in the UK with responsibility for two high volume continuously operating manufacturing units.
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Dr Carl Towns
Head of Research
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Dr Carl Towns was awarded a First class honours degree, a Masters with distinction and a PhD from Lancaster University. Following this he took up post-doctoral positions at Liverpool and Reading Universities. His early research interests included, new polymer synthesis, lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystal polymers, materials for non-linear optics and structural polymers.
He began his industrial career at Smith and Nephew in 1991 and remained there for four years before joining CDT as the Team Leader responsible for the newly formed Chemistry activity. Carl has authored numerous papers and has filed several patents in the area.
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Michael Black
Finance Director
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Michael Black, CDT’s Finance Director, holds a degree in management from the University of Cambridge and is a Chartered Management Accountant with 15 years international financial management experience.
In 1991, after spending three years working in international trade finance with Leyland DAF trucks, he joined the European HQ of the newly-formed DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals joint venture. He established management reporting and financial control processes for the group, recruited and managed the European IT team and served an 18-month secondment to the US head office. His work on business development projects included new subsidiary creation, acquisition/JV planning and working with DuPont's corporate finance team to prepare DuPont Pharmaceuticals for its sale to Bristol Myers Squibb in 2001.
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Prof Sir Richard Friend
Chief Scientist
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CDT's Chief Scientist, Sir Richard Friend, is Cavendish Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge. Friend was one of the founders of CDT, creating the company to exploit the invention of polymer light-emitting diodes in his research group in the University, and maintains a very active role in the company.
Friend has published more than 500 papers on organic semiconductors and related research areas, and is a named inventor on more than 20 patents and patent applications. Over the period 1990 to 1999 Friend was the most cited scientist based in the United Kingdom working in the fields of engineering and physical science.
Friend is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and his research has also been recognised by the receipt of several awards, including the Hewlett-Packard Prize of the European Physical Society (1996) and the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society of London (1998). He was knighted in 2003.
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Dr Herman Hauser
CDT Board Member
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Dr. Hauser is a co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited and has a long history of success as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Companies he founded or co-founded include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, Electronic Share Information Limited and E*Trade UK. Thanks to Hauser’s work in the nascent personal computer industry in the UK in the 1980s, through his work at Acorn Computers and as vice president of research at Olivetti, Hauser has been instrumental in a vast range of industry developments.
Hauser holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics gained in respect of work carried out at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Hauser holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Polytechnic. He was awarded an Honorary CBE for "innovative service to the UK enterprise sector" in 2001.
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