BOSTON and FUKUOKA, Japan, June 8,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyulux, Inc., a world leader in
next generation of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology,
today announced the addition of Dr. Chris
Brown to its executive management team. In his role as
Vice President of Products at Kyulux, Dr. Brown will be responsible
for coordinating all global R&D, product development, and
product delivery efforts. He will oversee expanded R&D
operations in Fukuoka and
Boston and report directly to Dr.
Christopher Savoie, CEO.
Dr. Brown comes to Kyulux from Kateeva, a leading provider of
OLED manufacturing equipment, where he was Vice President of
Process Engineering. In this role, he led the Process Group's OLED
RGB program while managing device fabrication, testing, metrology,
safety and demo activities as well as providing technical support
for key customer accounts. Dr. Brown began his career at the
Eastman Kodak Company where he contributed to and led a number of
successful Photographic and OLED material commercialization
programs. Following Kodak, he managed OLED product
development programs at Plextronics (acquired by Solvay) as
Director of Material Technology. Dr. Brown has been granted
31 US patents, has 34 publications, and has delivered numerous
presentations spanning a variety of printed electronics
applications. Dr. Brown is also a member of the Society for
Information Display OLED Committee that organizes the OLED
technical sessions for Display Week each year.
Dr. Christopher Savoie, CEO of
Kyulux, said, "We are extremely pleased to announce the addition of
Chris Brown to our global management
team. As we prepare to launch the first commercial TADF and
Hyperfluorescence products in the coming year, Christopher's
experience driving OLED development teams to productization, and
his track record with customer deliveries and support, will
increase our ability to rapidly deliver on product requirements and
service our customers."
Dr. Brown stated, "I am very excited with this new role as VP of
Products at Kyulux. I have for a long time been a close
observer and fan of TADF and Hyperfluorescence technology and, in
this expanded role, I will be able to apply my experience in OLED
commercialization to this exciting and disruptive technology.
I am honored to have been chosen to lead such a talented global
group of accomplished OLED scientists in the USA and Japan."
Prof. Chihaya Adachi, inventor of
TADF technology, Kyulux co-founder and ex officio board member
commented, "I look forward to working with Chris Brown in the commercial roll out of this
important technology. Chris is well respected in the display
industry and I have had the pleasure of serving on various
international committees with him in recent years. Chris
knows OLED science very well and his experience and understanding
will accelerate our development of TADF materials."
ABOUT KYULUX
Kyulux is a leader in developing and delivering the next
generation of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology, TADF.
Kyulux develops and sells TADF and Hyperfluorescence based OLED
materials and solutions to manufacturers in the display and
lighting industries.
Founded in 2015, the Company currently owns or has exclusive,
co-exclusive or sole license rights to a large TADF intellectual
property portfolio developed over the past seven years at
Kyushu University and its industrial
partners. Kyulux also enjoys an exclusive license to cutting-edge
deep learning–based artificial intelligence technology for chemical
discovery developed at Harvard
University.
Kyulux is based in Fukuoka,
Japan, with an advanced research and development center in
Boston, Massachusetts. For
further information please visit: www.kyulux.com
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