THE TEAM

Dan Murphy, Chairman.

Dan Murphy has been a non-executive director of Ceravision since 1998, becoming Chairman in 2002. He holds an honours law degree from University College Cork, Ireland. Dan has practised as a solicitor since 1988 and is currently one of the senior partners in the Dublin based practice of BCM Hanby Wallace Solicitors where he advises some of Ireland's major property developers on their Irish and international property transactions. He jointly manages his legal practice which is the sixth largest in Ireland.

Tim Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer.

After gaining 10 years Corporate Banking experience with Lloyds which included Management Positions in both the West End and City of London Tim left to establish Ceravision. Since this time he has lead the development of Ceravision from proof of concept to productisation and commercialisation. He has also been instrumental in the seeding and funding of a number of high growth companies including Cognisco Ltd, Create Online Ltd and Bletchley Park Capital Partners.

Chris Williams, Commercial Director.

Chris is responsible for the creation and implementation of the Company's commercial strategy. With over 30 years experience in working with cutting edge and disruptive technologies in the UK's Displays and Lighting Industry, he has positioned Ceravision to exploit its Technology Platform to a global marketplace.

Chris is also the Director of the Government-funded UK Displays & Lighting Knowledge Transfer Network and has extensive knowledge and links to a worldwide contact database, many of whom have already expressed an interest in the Ceravision technology and have become suppliers to the Company or are potential early adopter customers.

Floyd Pothoven, Director, Technology.

Floyd Pothoven has been an executive director of Ceravision since 1996 and has an MS from Loyola University in Computer Design, and an MS from Northrop University in Technology Management.

Floyd has spent over 40 years in designing and developing laser systems for material processes. Floyd founded the FLOROD Corporation in 1974 which developed and sold over 1,000 laser systems throughout the world. The company was sold in 1996 and Floyd joined Ceravision at that time. Floyd holds eight laser related patents and three patent applications. He has published over ten technical articles and is an author of the 2001 Laser Institute of America Handbook on Laser material processing. In 1996 he was awarded the SPIE's, BACUS award for developing the laser photomask repair technology.

Andrew Neate, Chief Technology Officer

Andrew's responsibility as Chief Technology Officer includes the daily management of the R&D and engineering operations at Ceravison whilst being responsible for bringing the electrode less lamp technology to packaged units suitable for the portfolio of related products. Andrew is qualified in electronics and engineering and has an HNC in Electronics. His area of specialisation is in radio frequency (RF) microwave design.

Some of his previous experience includes working as the senior RF design engineer for Racal Airtech and for Nokia. Previous projects include Mast Head Amplifications systems design for GSM, PCS, PCN Mobile Networks and high power mobile network base station systems design. Andrew is the co-inventor of the Continuum 2.4 technology and it's associated components, he is also the inventor of Continuum's revolutionary 200w - 5KW electrodeless plasma source, to target the high power general illumination sector.

Barry Preston, Product Development.

Since graduating from Manchester University with a BSc. (Hon.) in 1971, Barry has worked for 34 years in the lighting industry with GE Lighting, formally Thorn Lighting.

He has held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, quality, design and strategic planning roles working with High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps. Barry has played a leading role in the launch of ranges of quartz and ceramic lamps, aimed at both commercial and entertainment applications.

He acquired corporately certified 6-Sigma Master Black Belt status with GE. He holds a number of joint patents on discharge light sources, has co-authored a number of papers and is co-author, along with Eddie Odell, of the chapter on metal halide light sources in Lamps and Lighting (Arnold Press).

Barry's responsibilities at Ceravision include strategic planning, product development and the commercialisation of Ceravision's core technology.

Charles Guthrie, Head, Quality Assurance.

Charles brings many years of experience to the lamp development team, having been a key innovator in the display industry for over 25 years. Charles is a co-inventor of the electrodeless lamp and has been a charter member of the original team assembled to perfect the device for commercial applications. Charles responsibilities at Ceravision include product development, supply chain management and sub-contract manufacturing support.

Dr. Robin Devonshire, Chief Scientist.

Dr. Robin Devonshire is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield Chemistry Department. He is a founding director of Cavendish Instruments Limited, the leading supplier of software and instrumentation for a wide range of scientific, engineering and technical fields. He is highly regarded within the lighting industry, with over 30 years experience consulting to the majority of global lighting and electronics manufacturers. Since forming Ceravision Robin has been responsible for bringing the Continuum 2.4 through advanced development to productisation.

Eddie Odell, Head, Bulb Development.

Eddie's responsibility at Ceravision is to develop both quartz and ceramic lamps and to tune the filling chemistry for optimum performance against commercial requirements.

Eddie has been in the lighting industry for 38 years, joining Ceravision Ltd from GE Lighting - formally Thorn Lighting. Sponsored by Thorn as a student apprentice, he graduated with Honours in Applied Physics before joining Thorn's Research & Engineering Department at Leicester.

Eddie has held various quality, design and engineering leadership roles working almost exclusively in HID lamp technology during his career, on both quartz and ceramic lamps, introducing the cermet-ended ceramic metal halide lamp technology for Thorn at the Hanover Trade Fair in 1981.

He acquired 6-sigma Green Belt status with GE and was an active member of the European Lamp Manufacturers Association for the Preparation of Standards (ELMAPS) TC5 standardisation committee, for 9 years. He is co-author of chapters in Lamps and Lighting (Arnold Press) and has generated various patents for GE and Ceravision.

Milan Patel, General Counsel.

Milan Patel holds an honours law degree from Kings College, University of London. He has eleven years of experience in the legal profession, nine as a qualified solicitor. He has specialist experience in all types of commercial litigation including contract and intellectual property litigation. Milan is in-house general counsel for Ceravision, overseeing all legal issues pertinent to the company, including the management, protection and enforcement of the company's extensive patent portfolio.

Mark Wagner, Corporate Advisor.

After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, Mark qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick (now KPMG). He started his investment career with Valu-Trac Research and Investment Managment, a quantitative investment manager. He moved on to consulting for a number of companies on quantitative investment management, founding his own investment software business DataMetrix Limited. DataMetrix joint ventured with hedge fund manager Sabre Fund Management Limited to form the highly successful Sabre Market Neutral Fund and he subsequently became CEO of Sabre. He eventually sold his interest to concentrate on his other business activities.

His interests are now largely in technology companies. He was founding chairman of Bluespace Software Corporation, is Chairman of Isentropic Limited and a director of a number of other companies.

Vidhya Babykumar, Senior Engineer

Vidhya has a Masters degree in Display Technology, Systems & Applications from Dundee University and a Bachelors degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering. Prior to working with Ceravision, Vidhya completed her internship at the Liquid Crystal Division of Merck Chemicals Ltd (Southampton). At Ceravision she works in the areas of optics and electronics, dealing with optical simulations, metrology and lamp control circuitry as well as patent databases.

Jay Sadiq, RF Test Engineer

Jay is responsible for the testing and data acquisition of all Ceravision' s RF Microwave systems and components. Following his civil engineering degree at Kingston University Jay then moved into the RF technology sector as a test engineer. Having spent 8 Years at Airtech working on cellular communication technology to include High Q cavity filters and LNA integration he played a key role working with the latest ceramic filter technology. In 2001 he then moved to EADS Astrium. Jay was a senior test engineer working on the Intelsat 10-20 programme, launched on a Proton rocket on 16 June 2004, the EADS Astrium-built Intelsat 10-02 is the largest and most powerful satellite ever procured by Intelsat, the international telecommunications satellite operator.

Susan Lee, Commercial Development

Susan is responsible for all aspects of the commercial department and works closely with our clients and technical team to ensure all objectives are met for both client and Ceravision.

Susan has most recently been an integral part in setting up the UK Displays and Lighting Network working with key players in the UK and overseas. Prior to this she was the Commercial Manager for a laboratory facility in the UK showcasing photonics technology. Susan has worked in a number of positions within different sectors from contract management in the NHS, computer programming and training for Insurance and Financial services and sales and marketing. Susan holds a degree in computing and is a fully qualified Prince 2 project manager.

Dr.Stuart Mucklejohn, Product Development

Stuart Mucklejohn is a graduate of the University of Exeter where he was awarded a BSc and PhD in chemistry.

For 27 years he was engaged in the design, development and production of highly efficient light sources with GE Lighting, formerly Thorn Lighting, in Leicester. He has extensive experience in working at the interface between industry, commerce and academia.

He has published widely on the science and technology of light sources, high temperature chemistry and the determination of thermodynamic data being the co-author of more than 80 scientific publications.

More recently he has been the project manager for In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) studies funded by NASA and the European Space Agency.

He is the winner of the IEC Centenary Challenge with Professor Georges Zissis and is a Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Trent University.

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