Dr. Willy Shih, non-executive Chairman of the Board of QD Vision, currently is Senior Lecturer, Technology and Operations Management, at Harvard Business School. With an extensive background in advanced materials, intellectual property and the electronics industry, he provides QD Vision with strategic and hands-on experience in guiding new technologies to market.
From 1997 through early 2005, Dr. Shih helped create Kodak consumer digital business, including leadership of the Display and Components Group with businesses in CCD, CMOS, silicon sensors, OLED (organic light emitting device) display devices, and associated materials. He was also head of corporate intellectual property strategy at Kodak. Previously, Dr. Shih spent 18 years in the computer industry at IBM, at Silicon Graphics, where he led marketing of advanced systems, and at Thomson, where he led the technology group and oversaw corporate research, intellectual property and licensing.