Senior Management Team
| Executive Management | |
|---|---|
| Andrew G. Sculley | Chief Executive Officer and President |
| Paul C. Campbell | Chief Financial Officer |
| Jerome T. Carollo | Senior Vice President, Business Development |
| Olivier Prache | Senior Vice President, Display Operations, Design and Development |
| Dr. Amal Ghosh | Senior Vice President, Research & Development |
| Board of Directors | |
| Claude Charles | Director |
| Paul Cronson | Director |
| Irwin Engelman | Director |
| Dr. Leslie G. Polgar | Director |
| Andrew G. Sculley | Director |
| General Stephen Seay | Director |
| Dr. Jill J. Wittels | Chair of the Board |
Executive Management
Andrew G. Sculley, Jr. has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President since June 1, 2008. From 2004 to 2008 Mr. Sculley served as the General Manager of Kodak’s OLED Systems Business Unit and Vice President of Kodak’s Display Business, where he forged a number of alliances with flat panel display manufacturers. From 2001 to 2004, he was the CFO of Kodak’s Display Business. From 2003 to 2006, he served on the Board of Directors of SK Display, a joint venture between Sanyo and Kodak to manufacture active matrix OLED displays. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Sculley served on as the Manager of Operations, CFO and member of the Board of Directors of Kodak Japan Ltd., where he managed Distribution, Information Technologies, Legal, Purchasing and Finance. Previously, he held positions in strategic planning and finance in Eastman Kodak Company. Mr. Sculley holds an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MS in physics from Cornell University. He attended Harvard University’s International Senior Management Program while an executive at Kodak. Back to Top
Paul Campbell was appointed Chief Financial Officer May 12, 2009, having served as Interim Chief Financial Officer since April 15, 2008. He has served as the Chief Financial Officer of four public companies, including Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc, which until 2006 was traded on the NASDAQ, and as Chief Financial Officer of Famous Dave’s of America, Inc., a publicly held company currently trading on the NASDAQ. Mr. Campbell also served as Chief Financial Officer of Sonus Corporation, a medical device retailer and from May 2007 through October 2007 served as the Chief Financial Officer of Organic To Go, Inc., an emerging publicly-held food company. From 2001 through April 2007, Mr. Campbell owned and operated Campbell Capital, LLC, a consulting and investment firm in Seattle, Washington providing strategic planning and financing services to small businesses. Mr. Campbell received his Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Mr. Campbell is serving as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer pursuant to an agreement between the Company and Tatum, LLC, an executive services firm. Mr. Campbell has been a partner at Tatum since November 2007. Back to Top
Jerome T. Carollo has served as the Senior Vice President of Business Development since March 15, 2011. He joined eMagin from Intevac Vision Systems where he held the positions of Vice President/General Manager and Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development. He was responsible for developing the domestic and international business strategy for the company’s digital night vision systems, sensors, and helmet mounted and eyeware displays. From 2006 to 2007, he was the President and CEO of Creative Display Systems, a company he co-founded to provide innovative microdisplay and optical systems for both commercial and military markets, which he then sold to Intevac. Prior to this, Mr. Carollo held positions of increasing responsibility in the optical and display business including positions with Rockwell Collins Optronics and Kaiser Electro-Optics. Mr. Carollo holds a BS degree in Physics from the State University of New York and an MS in Optics from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics. In addition, he completed courses in Executive Business Management at the Haas School of Management, University of California at Berkeley. Back to Top
Olivier Prache was appointed Senior Vice President, Display Operations and Development in February 2005, after previously serving as Vice President of Display Development at eMagin and managing Philips’ LCOS display product development. His current responsibilities encompass managing OLED manufacturing, engineering, microdisplay design, and R&D. Previous work includes program management and development of electronics and packaging for field emissive and active matrix liquid crystal displays. Prior to joining eMagin Corporation (then FED Corporation) in 1995, he had been working for Pixtech in France and OIS Optical Imaging Systems in Troy, MI. He received his Diplôme d’Ingénieur from E.N.S.E.R.G., Grenoble France in 1983. Mr. Prache has published numerous papers in publications such as the IBM Journal of Development, and Proceedings of SID, SPIE, and ISSCC, and holds several patents related to the design of OLED-on-silicon microdisplays. Back to Top
Dr. Amal Ghosh was appointed as Senior Vice President of Research and Development in April 2009, after serving as Vice President of OLED R&D at eMagin since 2005. He is responsible for new microdisplay technology development, Government programs, Intellectual Property and manufacturing process engineering.
Dr. Ghosh has more than two decades of industrial research experience. He was at Eastman Kodak Company involved with OLED display technology (2002-2005) and IBM Corporation, both T. J. Watson Research Center and Microelectronics Division, where he was involved with semiconductor and LCD display technologies (1985-1995). He has numerous publications and patents to his credit. He received SID’s Special Recognition Award for his work in the field of OLEDs and FEDs in 2003. He was recognized for his outstanding services and leadership at SID (2004 and 2007). In 2009 he was nominated as SID Fellow and also received the SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter award for leadership, dedication and service to the chapter.
Dr. Ghosh is currently the Secretary and member of the Board of Directors of SID. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1985. Back to Top
Board of Directors
Claude Charles has served as a director since April of 2000. Mr. Charles has served as President of Great Tangley Corporation since 1999. From 1996 to 1998 Mr. Charles was Chairman of Equinox Group Holdings in Singapore. Mr. Charles has also served as a director and in senior executive positions at SG Warburg and Co. Ltd., Peregrine Investment Holdings, Trident International Finance Ltd., and Dow Banking Corporation. Mr. Charles holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. in international finance from Columbia University. Back to Top
Paul Cronson has served as a director since July of 2003. Mr. Cronson is Managing Director of Larkspur Capital Corporation, which he founded in 1992. Larkspur is a broker dealer that is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers and advises companies seeking private equity or debt. Mr. Cronson’s career in finance began
in 1979 at Laidlaw, Adams Peck where he worked in asset management and corporate finance. From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Cronson worked with Samuel Montagu Co., Inc. in London, where he marketed eurobond issuers and structured transactions.
Subsequently from 1985 to 1987, he was employed by Chase Investment Bank Ltd., where he structured international debt securities and he developed “synthetic asset” products using derivatives. Returning to the U.S., he joined Peter Sharp Co., where he managed a real estate portfolio, structured financings and assisted with capital market investments from until 1992. Mr. Cronson received his BA from Columbia College in 1979, and his MBA from Columbia University School of Business Administration in 1982. He is on the Board of Umbanet, in New York City, a private company specializing in email based distributed applications and secure messaging. Back to Top
Irwin Engelman has served as a director since May of 2005. Mr. Engelman has been a director of New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc., a publicly-traded company that is one of the nation’s largest owners and managers of community and neighborhood shopping centers, since 2003. He is currently a consultant to various industrial companies. From November 1999 until April 2002, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of YouthStream Media Networks, Inc., a media and retailing company serving high school and college markets. From 1992 until April 1999, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings, Inc., a privately-held financial holding company. From November 1998 until April 1999, he also served as Vice Chairman, Chief Administrative Officer and a director of Revlon, Inc., a publicly-traded consumer products company. From 1978 until 1992, he served as an executive officer of various public companies including International Specialty Products, Inc. (a subsidiary of GAF Holdings Inc.), CitiTrust Bancorporation, General Foods Corporation and The Singer Company. He is currently a director of Sanford Bernstein Mutual Funds, a publicly-traded company, and a member of its audit committee. Mr. Engelman received a BBA in Accounting from Baruch College in 1955 and a Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School in 1961. He was admitted practice law in the State of New York in 1962. In addition, he was licensed as a CPA in the State of New York in 1966. Back to Top
Dr. Leslie G. Polgar, a native of Hungary, has been founder and executive officer of Talpra Consulting, since 1994, where he serves as a consultant to investors and technology companies. From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Polgar was chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Forth Dimension Displays Ltd. in Scotland. Dr. Polgar was the founder and president of Eastman Kodak’s Display Products, where, from 2000 to 2003, he led the successful commercialization of the world’s first full color organic light emitting diode display (OLED), named one of ForbesMagazine’s Top 10 Nanotech Products of 2003. Since 2008, Dr. Polgar has taught the capstone Entrepreneurship and Business Development course in the MBA program at St. Mary’s College of California. He earned a PhD and MS in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from the University of Connecticut, and BS degrees in physics and math (University of Michigan). Back to Top
Andrew G. Sculley, Jr. has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President since June 1, 2008. From 2004 to 2008 Mr. Sculley served as the General Manager of Kodak’s OLED Systems Business Unit and Vice President of Kodak’s Display Business, where he forged a number of alliances with flat panel display manufacturers. From 2001 to 2004, he was the CFO of Kodak’s Display Business. From 2003 to 2006, he served on the Board of Directors of SK Display, a joint venture between Sanyo and Kodak to manufacture active matrix OLED displays. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Sculley served on as the Manager of Operations, CFO and member of the Board of Directors of Kodak Japan Ltd., where he managed Distribution, Information Technologies, Legal, Purchasing and Finance. Previously, he held positions in strategic planning and finance in Eastman Kodak Company. Mr. Sculley holds an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MS in physics from Cornell University. He attended Harvard University’s International Senior Management Program while an executive at Kodak. Back to Top
Brigadier General Stephen Seay since leaving active military service joined the Board of Directors for Kid’s House of Seminole County, Florida (child advocacy); eMagin Corporation, New York (OLED/microdisplay); and Atlantis Cyberspace, Inc., Hawaii (simulation/training), incorporated as Seay Business Solutions, LLC, Florida, in addition to being an Associate in The Spectrum Group, Alexandria, Virginia.
He held a wide variety of command and staff positions during his thirty-three year Army career, culminating as the Program Executive Officer for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) and Commanding General, Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Head of Contracting Authority, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq. He was Program Manager for a Joint system, headed the Joint Target Oversight Council and was Commanding General, Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), Army Materiel Command prior to reorganization into PEO STRI in 2002.
As a Field Artillery officer, General Seay commanded at all levels, culminating as V Corps Artillery Commander, United States Army, Europe. He served as Chief of Staff, United States Army, Europe (Forward) and National Security Element, Taszar Hungary, during Operation Joint Endeavor. He held operational, resource management, operations research and acquisition positions, as well as serving as Military Assistant to the Secretary of the Army during three tours on Department of the Army staff.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Science degree from the North Carolina State University. Back to Top
Dr. Jill J. Wittels has served as a director and Chairman of the Board since August, 2011. She served on the Company’s Board previously from 2003 to 2006. From 2001 until July, 2011, Dr. Wittels was Corporate Vice President, Business and Technology Strategy of L-3 Communications. Her responsibilities at L-3 included developing strategies for growth, oversight of R&D, diligence support for M&A, and cross-company business development coordination. From 1979 to 2001 she held a variety of positions with BAE Systems, including Vice President and General Manager, Acting President and Vice President of Engineering. She served on the board of Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. from 2002 through July 2011, and from June 1995 through June 2011 on the Board of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics. She also served on the board of Millivision, Inc. from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Wittels holds a BS and a PhD in Physics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Back to Top
