This appointment aims to strengthens Nanoco's commercial leadership in Asia. Based in Taiwan, David brings extensive global sales experience and customer relationships in our key display market. He has already begun his role and immediately proved highly influential on both the sales pipeline and the selling process.
David has more than 25 years of experience in the global technology industry. He joins Nanoco from Cambrios Technologies in California, where he was VP Worldwide Sales. Prior to that he was VP of Sales with Synerchip Technologies. During his time at both companies he successfully led sustainable sales growth through building sales teams, local distribution channels and strong customer relationships across Asia and North America.
Previously, David was VP of Worldwide Sales at Synerchip Technologies from 2010-2012, and VP of Sales, (Asia Pacific) at SiBEAM, responsible for sales across Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan.
As previously announced, on 30 June 2017 Nanoco received its first commercial order. The order came from Wah Hong Industrial Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of optical films and sheets for the display industry, for the supply of resins containing Nanoco's cadmium-free quantum dots (CFQD).
In addition, Nanoco's CFQD technology is now being evaluated in 16 active TV and monitor programmes with 13 major OEMs (4 April 2017: 14 active programmes with 9 OEMs).
"We are thrilled to have David join us at such an exciting time for Nanoco. His experience and track record of generating worldwide sales is perfectly aligned with our growth ambitions and indeed he has been instrumental in securing our first commercial orders while further strengthening our sales pipeline."
Michael Edelman, CEO, Nanoco Group plc