Engineering: turning ideas into reality - Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee Contents


Annex A

  A1.  Stuart Evans is a co-founder of Plastic Logic and was its first CEO until his retirement in 2006; he was Vice Chairman 2006-07. He now pursues a portfolio career, including being a Board Member for EEDA, the Regional Development Agency for the East of England. He is a regular speaker at plastic electronics industry events in UK, USA, Europe, China and Japan; a member of the Advisory Board of the UKDL KTN; an honorary member of the board of the Plastic Electronics Foundation and was named "Printed Electronics Champion" by IDTechEx in recognition of his word-wide success as an evangelist for a new industry. He originally worked for IBM and McKinsey & Co but has been a serial entrepreneur since 1984. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

  A2.  Dr John Mills is Plastic Logic's Chief Operating Officer responsible for a team of over 100 in Research, Development and Manufacturing; he also leads the company's approx £50 million capital expenditure program in building a prototype line in Cambridge and the first manufacturing facility in Dresden. He was the company's first senior technical manager when he joined as VP Engineering in 2002 after seven years in product development management at Domino, a leading industrial ink jet printing company. He has a PhD in Semiconductor Physics.






 
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