OTBv has extensive experience and background in evaluating materials, process technology, device construction, mechanical engineering, systems design, manufacturing equipment, and testing. OTBv personnel have hundreds of man years of experience in designing OLED production technology and evaluating and developing related materials and process technology.
OTBv has a special relationship with Settels van Amelsvoort and a number of major design, engineering and project management posts in the Company are manned by Settels personnel. Settels has been recently named one of Hollands top 100 companies. The internal work of OTBv is organized into nine project teams, each of which has a leader. Two of these teams manage engineering projects, including the development of complete single line processes.
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Gerald Hillman
Title:Chief Executive Officer
The Companys chief executive officer is Gerald Hillman, an executive with over 10 years of experience in the field of OLED technology. Mr. Hillman was a member of the Board of Directors of Cambridge Display Technology, which listed on the NASDAQ, and was sold to Sumitomo Chemical in 2006. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hillman was a partner of McKinsey and Company, the international management consultants. His special interest is in the commercialization of technology. Mr. Hillman is a graduate of Harvard College.
Sven Pekelder
Title:Chief Operating Officer
Sven Pekelder is a Eindhoven Technical University graduate with a master in Mechanical Engineering. After university Mr. Pekelder co-founded a small engineering consultancy firm. In 2004 Mr. Pekelder joined Settels van Amelsvoort, a Management Consultancy firm for technology companies. Here he worked at a semi-conductor multinational as a team leader and system architect, working on the latest generation lithography machines. He also took part in various consultancy assignments dealing with engineering chalenges in the building industry, mass production environments and the reorganisation of an engineering devision of an international technology firm. Since September 2009 Mr. Pekelder is Program Development Manager at Oled Technologiesand responsible for the development projects within the company.
Mark Dohmen
Title:Team Leader
Marc Dohmen is a bachelor of Science in Chemistry. In 1987 he joined PHILIPS Semiconductors as Process Engineer in wetprocessing at the 6 and 8 waferfab. In 1998 he joined PHILIPS PolyLED as Process Integrator, responsible for the mass production of the worlds first commercial PLED display. In 2005 OTB Display acquires the Philips PolyLed division . He then worked as a Senior Process Integrator for the active-matrix process development, and took part in the smOLED process development in cooperation with KODAK. Since September 2009 Marc Dohmen is the teamleader for Product Engineering at OTBv and responsible for product design, testing and characterization.
Ron Koopman
Ron Koopman studied electronic engineering at the Polytechnic School of Eindhoven. He has worked in various functions from product engineer to project leader for a major multinational based in Eindhoven in the electronics and display industries. Areas worked on were project management and coordination, team leading, interfacing between operation and development, technical advice function for project teams, consultancy for design phase of displays, modules and samples. Mr. Koopman is Project Manager at Oled Technologies (OTB Display) since August 2005 and responsible for development and production projects within the company.
Matthijs van Kooten
Matthijs van Kooten graduated as an electrical engineer (MSc) from Twente University, The Netherlands in 1991. Main focus in his education have been sensor and actuator technology, materials science and magnetic materials. After several years in research at Twente University, University of Minnesota (MN,US) and Keele University (UK) on materials for magnetic recording, he joined Verhaert Design and Development, an equipment builder for NASA and ESA, as a system engineer. He continued his career at JDSUniphase as senior engineer, responsible for the design, development and pilot production of a 25Ghz tunable DWDM source laser with wavelength locker. From 2003 until 2006, he was a consultant for various high-tech companies, focusing on LED lighting and manufacturing processes. In 2007, he joined OTBv to lead the Thin Film Encapsulation development activities. His responsibility was soon extended to all the processes on the PCAP20. From Aug. 2008 onwards, he is Project Manager for the entire PCAP20 project.
Pierre Lemmelijn
Pierre Lemmelijn is a Heerlen Technical High school graduate with a master Process Engineering. After his study he worked for several department of Philips Netherland as team leader Clean room technologies and team leader production facility. In 1998 he challenged to reallocate production lines CRT from Eindhoven to Heerlen. In 2001 he joined the Display department EDT-Polyled of Philips in Heerlen as Process engineer glass/glass encapsulation. In 2004 he was asked to lead the maintenance group of EDT-Polyled as team leader. Since 2007 he lead the maintenance and Facility group of OTB-display in Heerlen. Since September 2009 he is responsible as team leader for the Operation and Facility department in Heerlen.
Professor Arokia Nathan
Special Advisor
Arokia Nathan holds the Sumitomo/STS Chair of Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London. He is also the CTO of Ignis Innovation Inc., Waterloo, Canada, a company he founded to commercialize technology on thin film silicon backplanes on rigid and flexible substrates for large area electronics. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1988. In 1987, he joined LSI Logic Corp., Santa Clara, CA where he worked on advanced multi-chip packaging techniques and related issues. Subsequently, he was at the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. In 1995, he was a Visiting Professor at the Physical Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zürich. In 1997 he held the DALSA/NSERC Industrial Research Chair in sensor technology, and was a recipient of the 2001 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship. In 2004 he was awarded the Canada Research Chair in nano-scale flexible circuits. In 2005/2006, he was a Visiting Professor in the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK, and later in 2006, he joined the London Centre for Nanotechnology and is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He has published extensively in the field of sensor technology and CAD, and thin film transistor electronics, and has over 40 patents filed/awarded. He is a co-author of two books, Microtransducer CAD and CCD Image Sensors in Deep-Ultraviolet, both published by Springer in 1999 and 2005, respectively, and serves on technical committees and editorial boards at various capacities.
Here are additional information on Professor Arokia Nathan:
http://www.london-nano.com/content/contactlcn/lcndirectory/nathan/
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/staff/academic/anathan
