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ColorLink® Executive Team
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Leo Bannon
President & Chief Executive Officer
Leo A. Bannon, President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, has
been with ColorLink® since 1999 where his responsibilities have focused primarily on taking the Company from R&D to commercial production. Previously, Mr. Bannon founded and was the President of Balzers Thin Films in Colorado, a division of Unaxis. Mr. Bannon also helped found
and served as President of the Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA). Mr. Bannon has over eighteen years experience in the display industry supporting LCD, DLP™ and LCOS based projection systems. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering, as well as a Masters in Business Administration.
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Dr. Gary D. Sharp, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Gary Sharp is a ColorLink Founder and the Chief Technology Officer. He is an inventor of ColorLink’s ColorSelect®, ColorQuad®, and ColorSwitch® technologies for manipulating color. He has 50 issued patents relevant to color modulation, polarization control, and liquid crystal projection systems, with an additional 30 patent applications pending. Dr. Sharp has more than 50 journal publications, conference presentations and is co-author of “Polarization Engineering for LCD Projection” (Wiley & Sons, 2005). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His dissertation and post-doctoral work at CU concerned liquid crystal based modulators and tunable optical filters. Dr. Sharp was also a Founder and President of Boulder Nonlinear Systems, Inc., from 1988-1998. Prior to this, he was employed by Ophir Corporation, where he developed atmospheric sensors. |
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Kathleen McCarty
Chief Financial Officer
Kathleen McCarty, Chief Financial Officer, has been with the Company since 2000. Prior to joining ColorLink, Ms. McCarty served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Flatiron Credit Company, LLC, an asset backed lending company. As a founding officer Ms. McCarty was responsible for developing internal controls and operating procedures for underwriting, loan and asset servicing, financial reporting and accounting. Ms. McCarty played an integral role in growing the company’s portfolio through underwriting and acquisitions to nearly $100 million, with financing from a commercial paper facility rated “AAA/Aaa” by the major rating agencies.
Before joining Flatiron, Ms. McCarty spent seven years with KPMG in the audit department; serving publicly traded and privately held financial services and manufacturing clients. Ms. McCarty is a licensed CPA and holds a Bachelors of Science in Accounting from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she graduated magna cum laude. |
| Jill Thomassian
Vice President of Operations
Jill Thomassian, Vice President of Operations was recruited in 2006. Jill's experience includes 13 years in high-volume manufacturing systems design and development.
Jill comes to ColorLink from Microfabrica, a high-tech MEMS start-up company. While at Microfabrica, Jill was responsible for the facility and equipment infrastructure required for development of the patented EFAB™ microdevice manufacturing process. Jill began her career at Hewlett-Packard as a Manufacturing Development Engineer in charge of the technology transfer of manufacturing lines to Asia and the implementation of ISO 9001 manufacturing process controls.
Jill holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Her thesis work was on developing automated control algorithms for the 3D Printing Rapid-Prototyping Process. |
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Yoshitaka Sato
President, ColorLink Japan
Yoshitaka Sato, Chief Operating Officer of ColorLink Japan, was recruited to manage the start-up of ColorLink Japan joint venture in 2000. Prior to joining ColorLink Japan, Mr. Sato was employed at Nagase & Co. Ltd, as manager in their LCD Division. Nagase is one of the largest technology oriented trading companies in Japan. Mr. Sato had over 15 years experience with Nagase primarily supporting efforts in the field of direct view LCD displays. Mr. Sato holds a degree in Applied Chemistry from Yokohama National University. |
ColorLink® Scientists
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Dr. Michael G. Robinson, MA, PhD
Chief Scientist
Dr. Michael Robinson (Mike) received his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in physics from the University of Oxford, UK, before becoming the Plessey Research Fellow at Oxford’s Engineering Science Department. In 1988 he joined the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA where he worked on polarization based computing optical systems as a Research Assistant Professor with the founders of ColorLink, Drs. Gary Sharp and Kristina Johnson. In 1990 he returned to the UK for seven years to work liquid crystal devices and video projection systems at Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd. in Oxford. Since returning to Colorado in 1998 to join Colorlink, he has been responsible for the Liquid Crystal on Silicon projection system development now finding commercial success in JVC’s and Sony’s rear projection TVs. More recently he has been active in 3D system technology including active polarization switches and passive eyewear. Dr. Robinson has published in excess of sixty scientific articles with over twenty published international patents. He co-authored “Polarization Engineering for LCD Projection” (Wiley & Sons, 2005).
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Dr. Jianmin Chen, PhD
Principal Staff Scientist
Dr. Jianmin Chen, Principal Research Scientist, is a research scientist in the areas of silicon defects, superconductor, liquid crystal physics, liquid crystal device and projection display systems. After having received his Ph. D., Dr. Chen went to work for Samsung Electronics R&D division in Korea and, prior to joining ColorLink worked in the flat panel research group at Polaroid Corporation.
Dr. Chen received his PhD in physics from the Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University. He has been with ColorLink since 1999. He has 11 issued US patents, more than 65 publications in the various research areas, and has co-authored the book “Polarization Engineering for LCD Projection” by Wiley & Sons. He made significant contributions to develop wide field of view liquid crystal technologies and successfully developed the Liquid Crystal Display Simulation Tool software package. Before he joined ColorLink, he worked as a research scientist at flat panel group in Polaroid Inc. for two years and as a manager for two years at R&D Team II, Samsung Electronics, LTD, Korea. |
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Dr. David Coleman, PhD
Senior Scientist
Dr. Coleman is a research scientist in the area of liquid crystal physics. He recently received his PhD from the University of Colorado, Department of Physics in the liquid crystal group of Prof. Noel Clark. His dissertation and post-doc work covered a wide range of topics including photo-alignment and anchoring of liquid crystals, analog ferroelectric switching, and novel phases of bent-core liquid crystals.
Dr. Coleman has more than 25 journal publications and conference presentations, the highlight being an August, 2003 cover-article, “Polarization-modulated smectic liquid crystal phases” in the journal Science. |
| Dr. Miller Schuck, PhD
Sr.Staff Scientist
Dr. Schuck specializes in illumination and imaging optics for projection and near-to-eye (NTE) applications. In the early 1990’s, he was employed at Ford Motor Company’s Scientific Research Laboratories and developed networking for intelligent vehicle applications. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he researched liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) devices for automotive head-up display applications. During the late 1990’s, Miller was an integral part of LCOS startup Colorado Microdisplay, Inc., developing optical engines for NTE applications including HMD’s and camera viewfinders. He researched specialty lenses for holographic data storage at InPhase Technologies, and most recently, worked several years at Brillian Corporation leading NTE optical engine efforts and playing an integral role in the development of projection lenses and lamp- and LED-based illumination systems for LCOS RPTV products. Dr. Schuck has 7 issued patents and over 20 publications and conference presentations. |
ColorLink® Marketing
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John Korah
Technical Marketing Manager
John Korah is the Technical Marketing Manager and has been with ColorLink since 1999. His responsibilities have focused primarily on marketing and securing design wins for ColorLink’s proprietary polarization optics and color management products in the global market.
John has a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His thesis was on VCSEL devices for which he received a patent. John also has an MS in Physics specializing in solid state physics. |
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