MicroEmissive Displays is further increasing its sales management team in Asia to provide strategic support to its customers and distributors in the region.
[UKPRwire, Wed Nov 19 2008] MicroEmissive Displays is further increasing its sales management team in Asia to provide strategic support to its customers and distributors in the region. Kazuhisa Okamura has been appointed to the newly created role of Vice President of Sales - Japan.
Commenting on the appointment, Bill Miller, CEO said, “Japan is a strategically important territory for MED, it is the area where the next generation of consumer optical devices are being developed. Okamura-san brings a wealth of sales development experience together with an understanding of the consumer electronics market in Japan to the role. He will work closely with Kaga, our distribution partner in Japan, to increase sales of our P-OLED microdisplay devices.”
Kazuhisa Okamura joins MED from Sonaptic where he has spent four and a half years as Country Manager developing and implementing new sales and marketing strategies, raising sales in excess of $5m. Prior to this he spent four and a half years at NuCore Technology, a digital imaging and mixed signal technology company, as Sales Director for Japan. Okamura started his career in the electronics industry with Intel in 1985 and subsequently held a number of account management and Sales Director roles.
About MicroEmissive Displays
MicroEmissive Displays (MED - AIM, London Stock Exchange) is a leader in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplay technology. The company was founded in 1999 and has developed a unique emissive microdisplay technology by using a P-OLED layer on a CMOS substrate. In late 2004, MicroEmissive Displays floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM) and the first product release and commercial shipments of MicroEmissive Displays’ P-OLED microdisplays were made in 2005. The company held the official opening of its volume manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany in May 2007.
MicroEmissive Displays has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 registration for the research, design, development, marketing, manufacturing and sales of digital microdisplay solutions. MicroEmissive Displays is headquartered at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland and its manufacturing site is in Dresden, Germany. The company employs more than 70 people and also has sales representatives and applications support located in Asia, the USA and Europe.
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For further information please contact:
Dr Natalie Polack, Product Marketing Manager, MicroEmissive Displays
Scottish Microelectronics Centre, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JF
Tel: + 44 (0) 131 650 7764; Fax: + 44 (0) 131 650 7761
E-mail: info@microemissive.com; Web: www.microemissive.com
