Seminar on "A Corporate VC's view on Displays "

A Corporate VC's view on Displays

Nov 7, 2012 (Today)
Time: 4:15pm
Location: CISX-101

Abstract:

Eileen representing Applied Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Applied Materials, will discuss a brief history of LCD and the current state of the display market including the changes happening in the transistor layers for HD LCD and OLED displays . She will also talk about the technical challenges need to be overcome for the mass adoption of OLED TV to occur. Finally, Applied Ventures, who has invested $160M in over 45 companies in the nanotechnology sector including the following companies in display: Halation, Liquavista, Plextronics, TeraBarrier Films, and Kateeva will give a brief overview of some of these investee companies and their plans for the future.

Bio:

Eileen Tanghal joined Applied Ventures in 2008 and was appointed Head of Applied Ventures in October, 2011. Ms. Tanghal is currently board of directors observer at Aventa Systems and BT Imaging. She also manages Applied's investments in Illumitex, Kateeva and Plextronics . She led Applied Ventures' investment in Liquavista and served as a board observer director for the company until it was acquired by Samsung in January, 2011.

Eileen has 14 years of experience working with technology companies in the US and Europe including 10 years of combined financial and corporate venture capital experience and 4 years working directly within venture capital backed startups. Prior to joining Applied, she served as an investment director in the London office of Kennet Partners. Prior to this, Ms. Tanghal was an investment associate with Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, where she worked closely with portfolio companies including Plastic Logic Limited., SPI Lasers (acquired by JDS Uniphase), Forth Dimension Displays (acquired by Kopin) and Artimi. Prior to entering the venture capital industry, she was one of the first ten employees, at PDF Solutions, specializing in semiconductor device design and fabrication. PDF Solutions subsequently went public in 2001 (Ticker: PDFS).

Ms. Tanghal holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the London Business School.