Board of Directors
Dan Murphy, Chairman.
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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 has recently retired as one of the senior partners in the Dublin based practice of BCM Hanby Wallace to enable him to concentrate on his role within Ceravision.
Tim Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer.
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After 10 years of Management Positions in both the West End and City of London Corporate Banking sector Tim left to establish Ceravision. Since this time he has lead the development of Ceravision from proof of concept to productisation and commercialisation. Tim has also been instrumental in the seeding and funding of a number of other high growth companies including Cognisco Ltd, Create Online Ltd and Bletchley Park Capital Partners which has been instrumental in securing the future of Bletchley Park.
Andrew Neate, Chief Technology Officer.
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Andrew's responsibility as Chief Technology Officer includes the strategic planning and delivery of all R&D and engineering operations within Ceravision. He is also responsible for bringing the high efficiency plasma (HEP) technology to packaged products suitable for varied lighting applications. Andrew is qualified in electronic engineering and his area of specialisation is in radio frequency (RF) design.
Andrew's previous experience includes working within the communications industry designing passive RF components for mobile networks. He also spent a number of years as an RF design consultant advising companies such as Racal Airtech and Nokia. Andrew is the inventor of Ceravision's revolutionary high efficiency plasma (HEP) technology which is suitable for power ranges and lighting applications varying from 100 watts to 5 kilo watts.
Jan Peter Faberij de Jonge, Director.
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Jan Peter joined Ceravision's Board of Directors in June 2009. Since 1997, Jan Peter has been a partner and General Manager of ASA Consultants, an independent corporate finance, institutional investment and M&A advisory firm based in Bahrain. In 1982, after seven years with ABN Amro Bank in Amsterdam, he joined the Arab Banking Corporation in Bahrain in overall charge of the bank's securities investment operations. Jan Peter serves on a number of company boards and is also the Netherlands' Honorary Consul to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Chris Williams, Director.
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Chris is responsible for the creation and implementation of the Company's Environmental strategy. With over 30 years experience in working with cutting edge and disruptive technologies in the UK's Displays and Lighting Industry, he has helped position Ceravision to deliver its High Efficiency Plasma Platform to the global markets that are focussing on energy conservation.
Chris has been closely involved with helping deliver UK Government-funded Knowledge Transfer and Collaborative Research programmes and has extensive 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.
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Floyd Pothoven has been an executive director of Ceravision since 1998 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.
Management Team
Dr. Robin Devonshire, Chief Scientist.
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Robin retired from University of Sheffield Chemistry Department earlier this year where he had been a senior lecturer. He is a visiting professor at universities in Europe and Asia and a founding director of Cavendish Instruments Limited. He is highly regarded within the lighting industry, with over 30 years experience consulting to the majority of global lighting and electronics manufacturers.
Susan Lee, Business Development.
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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's experience includes 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.
Dr.Stuart Mucklejohn, Technical Operations.
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Stuart 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.
Milan Patel, General Counsel.
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Milan 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 intellectual property portfolio.
Barry Preston, Product Development.
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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 and product development of Ceravision's core technology.
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