IGNIS is led by an experienced and respected management team, consisting of a well-known technologist in the TFT field and business leaders with experience in commercializing new technologies for the display and semiconductor industries.
Paul Arsenault - President and CEO
Dr. Arokia Nathan - Founder
Dr. G.Reza Chaji - CTO
Paul Arsenault - President and CEO
Paul Arsenault has been the President and CEO of IGNIS Innovation Inc since 2001. Paul has been actively involved in the display and semiconductor industries for the past 15 years, and the OLED space for over ten years, practically from the beginning of the market. He has participated in various strategic development projects and investments with many key players of the industry.
A graduate in engineering and management from McGill University, he is also a member of the Quebec Order of Engineers and has been a corporate director for several high-tech joint ventures.
Dr. Arokia Nathan - Founder
Arokia Nathan has over 20 years of expertise in the area of microelectronics, and in particular thin film transistors and circuits. He is recognized internationally in his field and has significant experience in industry partnering, patenting of intellectual property and device development. Arokia is the founder of IGNIS Innovation Inc.
He received his PhD from the University of Alberta (1988), where he was engaged in physics and numerical modeling of semiconductor microsensors. Arokia directs a large team of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty at the London Center for Nanotechnology in London, UK where he holds the STS/Sumitomo Chair. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is a co-author of the book Microtransducer CAD, published by Springer.
Dr. G.Reza Chaji - CTO
Reza received his BSc (with honours) and MSc degrees from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1999, and 2001, respectively. In his MSc dissertation and his consequent work at Valence Semiconductor (Senior Designer, 2001-2003), he worked on low-power high-performance digital circuits and systems.
He pursued his Ph.D. (2004-2008) at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he was working on the design and implementation of AMOLED displays, biomedical imagers and bio-array sensors. At IGNIS, he is the CTO and manages the design and implementation team of new displays and products, as well as programs for the development of low-power and high resolution backplanes for AMOLED displays.
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