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Lexington, MA-based QD Vision has Appointed Seth Coe-Sullivan as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
QD Vision, Inc. is a nanomaterials product company delivering advanced display and lighting solutions that provide unparalleled color and cost savings. The company is focused on improving the color quality of TVs and other displays and has spent years developing its Color IQTM technology to deliver color performance that achieves 100 percent of the NTSC standard. QD Vision's Color IQ product line harnesses the unique light-emitting properties of a new class of nanomaterials called quantum dots. The company’s advanced materials and components are used to illuminate a broad range of applications, including flat panel displays, solid state lighting systems, and defense and security projects. QD Vision is leveraging a rich set of intellectual assets, including an expanding base of patents originating at MIT and QD Vision. To date, 39 patents have been issued, while more than 200 are pending. The company boasts a world-class technology team that has advanced the work done by co-founders and QD Vision scientific advisors, MIT professors Vladimir Bulovic and Moungi Bawendi, who is considered the father of quantum dot technology. QD Vision's commercial and technology team is complemented by a proven leadership group whose members have deep experience in advanced materials, displays and lighting at major corporations and influential new ventures, including Corning, DuPont, Rohm and Haas, GTE/Sylvania, Cabot, E Ink and Color Kinetics. QD Vision has received numerous accolades, including the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, the New England Clean Energy Council’s Emerging Company of the Year, and the AlwaysON Cleantech and Public Sector awards. The company also won a silver Edison Award for best new product. The company has raised more than $75 million in financing from top-tier venture capital firms North Bridge Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, DTE Energy Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Passport Capital, Novus Energy Partners, and Capricorn Investment Group. QD Vision has leveraged its technology leadership position to establish design-in relationships with leading global companies in the display and solid state lighting industries, as well as with multiple government agencies and prime contractors.
About the Person
Seth Coe-Sullivan is co-founder, member of the Board of Directors, and Chief Technology Officer of QD Vision. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2005, where his thesis work led to the formation of QD Vision. Seth’s technology expertise includes quantum dot materials and devices for solid state lighting and displays, as well as the environmental health and safety implications of quantum dots and nanomaterials. His role as CTO spans technology and intellectual property strategy, technical marketing, fundraising, and business development for advanced projects. Seth has more than 50 papers, patents, and patents pending in the fields of organic light emitting devices, quantum dots, and environmental health and safety of nanomaterials. He was awarded Technology Review Magazine’s TR35 Award in 2006, naming him one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the top young entrepreneurs under the age of 30, and in 2009, he was a finalist for the Mass Technology Leadership Council's CTO of the year. Under his technology leadership, QD Vision won the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award in 2009, New England Clean Energy Council’s Emerging Company of the Year Award in 2010, and the SEMI Award for North America in 2012. Seth is honored to sit on Brown University’s Engineering Advisory Council, and the US National Research Council’s Committee to Develop a Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials. Seth graduated in 1999 from Brown University with a Sc.B. in electrical engineering. He then spent a year as a staff engineer at the Boston-based research company Foster-Miller, Inc., in the Emerging Technology division of the Materials Technology Group.
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