Mike is Vice President of Business Development at both Universal Display Corporation and UDC Ventures. Prior to joining Universal Display in 1999, he was associated with dpiX, a Xerox Company, where he was responsible for manufacturing flat panel displays and digital medical imaging products based on amorphous silicon TFT technology. Mike received his Ph. D. degree from Cambridge University, England in 1981 and in 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display. In 2014, Mike was nominated to serve on the board of the U.S. OLED Lighting Coalition to promote the advancement and commercialization of OLED lighting. Mike has served as a technology scout and led the evaluation team for Universal Display in a range of areas given his extensive experience with many thin film technologies, both organic and inorganic, as well as display technologies.