Kateeva expanded its leadership team by appointing technology executive Alain Harrus, PhD, as chief executive officer (CEO). The Silicon Valley, California (US) start-up is developing an inkjet-printing manufacturing solution to enable low-cost mass production of flexible and large-scale organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays.
Harrus brings nearly three decades of semiconductor industry experience to Kateeva. He rounds out Kateeva’s executive team, which includes: Conor Madigan, PhD, president and co-founder; Steve Van Slyke, chief technology officer (CTO) and OLED technology co-inventor; and Eli Vronsky, executive vice president of product development.
Harrus joins Kateeva from Crosslink Capital, a San Francisco, California-based venture capital company. As a partner, he led the firm’s semiconductor and energy technology investment activities. Before turning to venture capital, Harrus developed process technologies as a research scientist at Bell Laboratories and later as CTO at Novellus Systems (now part of Lam Research).
Harrus holds a BS degree in Mathematics and an MS degree in Physics from the University of Paris XI in Orsay, France, and a PhD degree in Solid-State Physics from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US).
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