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Published on: 9/16/2004
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"The glass-based LCD industry is booming, but current suppliers can't provide differentiated products to meet the requirements of specific high value, market niches," said Paul Higgins, President and CEO of Silk Displays."This creates an exciting opportunity for a supplier of all-plastic LCD displays that can produce high value displays in relatively small volumes and at a lower cost point.Silk Displays will provide rugged, reliable, lightweight and flexible displays with significantly better performance at 1/2 the cost of existing ruggedized LCD products."
Silk Displays' management team is comprised of highly experienced executives. including: Paul Higgins (President & CEO) who brings over 22 years of executive, management, marketing and business development experience with high technology companies including Lockheed Martin, Unisys, Nortel, Emerson, Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology; Dr. Mark Andrews (CTO) the former co-founder and CTO of Lumenon, a photonics company using polymers in leading edge applications, a former Principal Investigator in the Materials Research Division at Bell Laboratories (Lucent) and a member of the Department of Chemistry at McGill University since 1990; and Bell Fong (VP, Engineering) who has over 24 years of engineering, program management and management experience with high technology companies including Harris Farinon, Lockheed Martin, Nortel, Emerson, Bombardier, and Lumenon.