Entered an electrical equipment manufacturer in 1994, involved in display and touch panel device design and development for handheld commercial and POS terminals. After working in quality control, procurement and other sectors, assigned to quality control and procurement and mobile telephone device design and development. Appointed to mobile telephone new device strategy development at NTT DoCoMo in 2010.

(1) Academic background:

Got a Master of Engineering at Tohoku University graduate school engineering research course in March 1975.

Got a Doctor of Engineering at Toyo University graduate school engineering research course in March 2010.

(2) Job history

Got employed by Teijin Ltd. in April 1975.

Transferred from Teijin Ltd. to Teijinkasei Ltd. in July 2006.

Then and now.

(3) Research:

Research on characteristics of transparent conductive layer on plastic substrate;

Research and development of transparent conductive film for plastic LCD and touch panel etc.

(4) Specialized field:

Sputtering technology for thin films;

Coating technology for thin films

Geoff Walker is the Marketing Evangelist & Industry Guru at NextWindow, the leading supplier of optical touchscreens. A mobile-computing industry pioneer, Geoff worked on the first laptop at startup GRiD Systems in 1982 and the first pen & touch tablet in 1989. Geoff served as product architect and VP of Marketing at startup Fujitsu Personal Systems, where he architected all of Fujitsu's pen & touch tablet products from 1993-1999.

Geoff worked on startup Handspring's first color PDA and the predecessor of the Treo smartphone. After Handspring, Geoff ran his own consulting firm (Walker Mobile) for seven years, focusing on touchscreens, mobile displays and mobile computers. Most recently Geoff was the Global Director of Product Management and Business Development for Elo TouchSystems, a business unit of Tyco Electronics. Geoff holds BS-Electrical Engineering and BS-English degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and is an active member of the Society for Information Display (SID).

With 16 years in Japan working on technology, Olivier Juvanon brings a variety of sales, marketing and technical skills to Stantum. Prior to joining Stantum, he was Business Operations Director at Genworth Japan, where he helped develop applications and services. He has also held technical marketing position at Gemplus (now Gemalto), focusing on SIM cards for 3G mobiles, contributing to its leading position at time of adoption of 3G by Japanese and Korean operators.

Juvanon has an engineering degree from Telecom Bretagne, France.

Entered Hosiden Corp. in 1968, involved in top-gate a-Si TFT-LCD R&D and commercialization from 1979. Achieved first adoption of TFT-LCD in a Boeing 777 cockpit.

Entered Sony Corp. in 1999, involved in ramping up volume production of LTPS TFT-LCD. Appointed manager of technology planning, Mobile Display Division in 2002. Manager of liquid crystal technology, Display Devices Development Division, Corporate R&D. Chief Distinguished Engineer in 2004; proposed in-cell implementation of TFT-LCD components to academia and industry.

Retired Sony in 2008. Now active as a technology consultant in the display field, as well as in society activities, as a speaker at seminars, and an author for journals. Dr. Eng., Tokyo Institute of Techology.