Richard Archuleta - CEO
Rich Archuleta is a proven technology business leader in Silicon Valley.
As Senior VP and General Manager at Hewlett Packard, he led the HP
Notebook PC business, the standard Intel Architecture Server business,
and the Worldwide Volume Direct business. He led planning for the
merger integration of the HP and Compaq PC businesses, and was
Mobile Computing Magazine's "Mobile Industry Person of the Year." He
is a patent holder, has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Stanford University, and is a graduate of the Executive
Development Program at the Kellogg School of Management.

 

Rik Thorbecke - CFO
Mr. Thorbecke is a global finance executive with over 20 years of
experience. Previously he was a Partner in the Technology practice of
PricewaterhouseCoopers. VP of Global Finance and Audit at Electronic
Arts. Most recently at Levi Strauss & Co. he reported directly to the
Audit Committee of the Board of Directors and to the CFO, and carried
several responsibilities including enterprise risk management, audit,
indirect procurement, financial and strategic planning, quarterly board
reporting and developing a worldwide finance transformation plan as
part of a global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation
program. He also led and supported various M&A and integration
projects, worked with many venture capital backed companies and
consulted clients in IPOs, SEC reporting, US GAAP, IFRS and SOX
compliance. Rik is a California CPA, Dutch Registered Accountant and
received a Post Graduate Degree in Accounting and Auditing as well as
a MS/BS in Business Administration and Economics from the University
of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

 

Daren Benzi - Vice President, Business Development and Interim Vice President, Marketing
Daren brings over 15 years of business development, sales and strategic partnership experience to Plastic Logic. Previously, Daren was Vice President of Sales Development and Strategy at DIRECTV, where he led the company’s integrated sales partnerships with major broadband companies and developed new special market opportunities.  Prior to DIRECTV, Daren held a number of business development, strategy and operational roles at News Corporation and The Walt Disney Corporation. As Senior Vice President of News Digital Ventures, his main focus was to identify new market and investment opportunities in digital media for News Corporation. Daren also served as Vice President of Business Development for News Corporation’s digital media division, where he led business development and strategic partnership initiatives. His experience also includes business development and affiliate sales positions at ABC Television. Daren began his career as an attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, where he focused on cable and telecom policy issues.

 

Brent Boyer - Vice President, Supply Chain
Brent Boyer brings a career in global manufacturing and supply chain management with leading consumer electronics companies to the Plastic Logic team. Prior to joining Plastic Logic, he was Director of Procurement and led company-wide manufacturing strategies for Neterion, the developer of high-speed server and mass storage I/O solutions. He was previously at Apple Computer as Senior Director of Worldwide Product Operations, and at Hewlett Packard where he held a variety of executive management positions in operations spanning Global Alliances, Personal Computing, Mobile Computing and e-school businesses. Earlier, while at Siemens Solar, he was operations manager responsible for manufacturing of the consumer products line and served as Manager, Taiwan Operations, residing in Taipei. Brent completed MBA work at Pepperdine University and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University, graduating Summa Cumme Laude.

 

Konrad Herre - Vice President, Manufacturing
Konrad Herre has over 25 years of experience in research, development
and production with large international microelectronic companies. His
experience includes organizational management for the technology
development and production, test and customer relationship operations
of large-scale global facilities including positions on the Managing Board
as COO of ZMD AG, President and COO of X-FAB Semiconductor
Foundries, and Vice President of Production and Logistics for Fiber
Optics with Infineon. He has a Diploma in Physics from Friedrich Schiller
University in Jena, Germany.

 

Martin Jackson - Vice President, Technology, Cambridge Technology Center
Mr. Jackson has more than 20 years of executive and technical
management experience in the communications and semiconductor
industries. He was most recently CTO of Artimi and previously he was
CTO at Frontier Silicon, CTO of GlobespanVirata, which later merged
into Conexant Corp. Mr. Jackson has co-founded four start-ups, and
serves on the Board of Directors for DisplayLink. Martin holds a
First-Class Honours degree with distinction in electronic engineering
from Cambridge University.

 

Professor Henning Sirringhaus - Chief Scientist (co-founder)
Professor Sirringhaus is the Hitachi Professor of Electron Device
Physics at Cambridge University. He has worked alongside Professor
Richard Friend since 1997. He did post-doctoral research at Princeton
and has a PhD from the Institute of Solid State Physics of ETH Zurich.
He has over 70 publications and 20 patents/patent applications.