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Nick has been involved in organic technologies since the discovery of polymer electroluminescence during his work as a Post Doctoral Research Assistant in Cambridge in 1989. He received his PhD in Physics in 1987 from the University of California Santa Barbara under the supervision of the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Professor Allan Heeger. Following post-doctoral research in the laboratories of Cavendish Professor Sir Richard Friend, FRS at Cambridge University, England, he became a founding employee of UNIAX Corporation in 1990. Over the following ten years, UNIAX became a global leader in the development of light emitting polymer technology. During that period Nick served in a variety of technical and business roles, eventually being named Vice President of Business Development in 1998. He was a member of the executive team that arranged and completed the sale of UNIAX to the DuPont Corporation in an all cash transaction in 2000, and subsequently he became Director of Strategic Planning for the new DuPont Displays Strategic Business Unit. He left DuPont in 2003 and currently serves as Associate Director of the Flexible Display Center | 