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CEO
Amorphyx
Corvallis, Oregon
John is CEO of display backplane technology startup Amorphyx (Corvallis, OR). At Amorphyx, John leads the commercialization of a new family of quantum tunneling and semiconductor thin film electronic devices promising to dramatically lower manufacturing cost, improve image quality and reduce power consumption of rigid and flexible small-to-large are displays for consumer electronics while improving performance and suitability of thin film electronics for the new generation of high-performance flexible electronics circuits. The company is engaged with Tier 1 display manufacturers for improving premium-grade displays for AMOLED and microLED smartphones and UHD TVs.
John is also CEO of Amorphyx’s Chinese joint venture 杭州阿墨非结晶科技有限公司 (Hangzhou Amorphous Technology Co., Ltd.), based in Hangzhou. The joint venture provides in-region technical support for Chinese display manufacturers through a collaboration with Zhejiang University’s School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering.
Before Amorphyx, John spent 30 years in wireless systems and semiconductors for consumer electronics markets across the disciplines of engineering, product and strategic marketing, and executive management. He spent 20 years working on products and technologies related to improving the performance and manufacture of RF power amplifiers for cellular, WiFi and GPS in mobile devices and network infrastructure. John’s engineering and marketing efforts contributed to the birth and growth of the WiFi (IEEE 802.11) and digital cellular (GSM and 3G) technologies and markets.
John holds a BS Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University. He has authored trade journal articles on technologies for wireless in consumer electronics, including the invited feature article on the future of wireless communications for the 50th anniversary edition of Microwave Journal. John has lectured at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on high-tech entrepreneurism, at George Gilder’s “Telecosm” conferences on the future of wireless communications technologies, and has been the invited chair for industry conferences on cellular network and mobile phone technologies.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022