Adi Abileah – Regional Vice-President of SID for the Pacific Area (USA) and Latin America and CEO of Adi Display Consulting – USA

Adi Abileah is the Regional Vice-President of SID for the Pacific (USA) and Latin America and CEO of Adi Display Consulting – USA;

Adi Abileah retired from Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon), where he served as the chief scientist at the Technology Group. His main activity was related to development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD), physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, and backlights and enhancement techniques.

Adi Abileah has B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and M.Sc. in Plasma Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. And a 2-year research work at the university on high power CO2 lasers. He developed soil mechanics density sensors at the Negev Institute, Israel. His first industry job was in medical imaging (Nuclear Medicine) at Elscint, Israel.

He was the head of the Electro-Optics Group at Elbit for several years, and then the manager of EL-OP north branch R&D center in Haifa, Israel. On 1987, he joined OIS – Optical Imaging Systems in Michigan where he became the manager of the optics group and responsible for all related topics in the development of AMLCDs. During this period, he became expert in the optics of AMLCDs, testing techniques, and liquid crystals physics. He served at OIS until the company closed at 1998 and then joined Planar Systems.

Adi Abileah has 46 US patents, mostly related to displays, backlights, 3-D stereo and in-cell optical sensors. He presented many technical papers at SID, SPIE, and OSA conferences, and gave several seminars at SID.

In 2005, Adi Abileah received the Fellow Award of SID. In 2012, he got the SID Otto Schade Prize. In 2011 Adi Abileah was awarded with a Presidential Citation Award of SID in recognition for organizing LatinDisplay 2010.. He served as the director of the Pacific Northwest chapter of SID for many years. Adi co-chaired and was program chair of ADEAC conferences (2005/2006). He was program chair of Latin-Display/IDRC (2009, 2010 and 2011) and co-chair (2012 and 2014).

Adi is an Associate Editor for JSID 3-D displays and chairing the 3-D stereo subcommittee of ICDM standards, as well as member of SAE-J-1757 standard group. He is a member of the Applications Subcommittee for the SID conferences.

Sri Peruvemba - Regional Vice-President of SID for the Bay Area and CEO of Marketeer International- USA

Sriram Peruvemba (Sri), serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Information Display as the Regional Vice President of Americas (Bay Area) and the Head of Marketing of SID.

Sri is the CEO of Marketer International, a marketing services firm.

He served as Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing at E Ink Corporation. As the CMO for E Ink Holdings, he played a major role in transforming a $15M startup to a $1b+ global company in 3 years. Sriram served as Director and President of Quantum Materials Corp, as Chief Marketing Officer at CLEARink Displays, Inc. and as its Vice President of Marketing. He was Vice President of Corporate Marketing of Cambrios Technologies Corporation after being its Chief Marketing Officer. He led its global marketing, applications engineering and business development efforts. Peruvemba served as an Associate Director of Display Products of Sharp and was responsible for marketing their LCD products in the Industrial, Medical, Signage and TV markets. He served as General Manager of TFS Inc., Marketing Director and Director of Global Marketing and Business Development of Planar Systems and Vice President of Suntronic Technology Corporation. Based in Silicon Valley, he is presently CMO/advisor to high tech firms in North America, Canada, Europe and Asia including the board of Visionect.

An acknowledged expert on electronic displays, haptics, touch screens, and related technologies, Sri Peruvemba With over 30 years of experience in the electronics industries, LCD, TFEL, OLED, LED and ePaper displays into the mobile, industrial, medical, signage and TV markets, Sri Peruvemba has been an influential advocate in the advancement of all these technologies.

Mr. Peruvemba holds a BSEE from the RV College of Engineering at Bangalore University, India, an MBA from the Barton School of Business at WSU, Kansas, and a post-graduate diploma in management. He is regularly invited to present at major technology conferences, has published several articles and white papers and often leads seminars and classes on the display industry. He is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times and many other publications.

Kenneth I. Werner - Principal of Nutmeg Consultants - USA

Kenneth I. Werner is the founder and Principal of Nutmeg Consultants, specializing in the display industry, manufacturing, technology, and applications, including mobile devices, automotive and television.

Kenneth I. Werner is Senior Analyst for MEKO, Ltd. and a founding co-editor of MEKO’s Display Daily. From 1987 to 2005 he was the Editor of Information Display Magazine, and until 2015, he was Marketing Director for Tannas Electronic Displays.

Kenneth I. Werner regularly addresses technical and trade organizations in the Americas and Asia, and is routinely consulted by financial and investment analysts, attorneys, members of the international press corps, and companies re-positioning themselves within the display industry or using displays in their products. He speaks frequently with C-Level executives of display-related companies in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, as well as government officials and academic researchers.

Kenneth I Werner has been an active member of the display industry since 1987 and is the 2017 recipient of the Society for Information Display's Lewis and Beatrice Winner Award.