Short Bio
Aris Silzars, PhD
19916 NE 30th Court
Sammamish, WA 98074
Ph. 425-898-9117
e-mail: silzars@attglobal.net
Dr. Silzars started his career as a research engineer but soon moved into managing groups of engineers (as large as 400) developing new display and solid-state technologies. This led to the management of both the development and manufacturing of displays and solid-state devices. Subsequently, he managed the overall business strategy and operations of organizations ranging from start-ups to businesses with over $50 million in annual revenue. He has had the opportunity to work with companies as large and established as DuPont, as research oriented as the David Sarnoff Research Center, and as new as start-ups in the initial funding stages.
He received his BA in physics from Reed College, and his MA in physics and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 1969. After completing his PhD studies, he joined the Watkins-Johnson Company to work on a variety of electron-beam addressed signal-processing devices. In 1974, his career interests took him to Tektronix where over the next thirteen years he held a variety of technical and business management positions to develop and implement display and solid-state technologies into Tektronix products. In 1989, he took on the responsibility of managing the start-up of a new electronic materials business for the DuPont Company and in 1994 he joined the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, NJ as Director of the Display Research Laboratory. For the past 20 years, he has dedicated himself to working with a variety of large and small companies to explore and develop new display technologies.
He has been awarded eighteen U.S. patents and has dozens of published papers in major technical journals. From 1993 until 2003 he wrote the monthly “A View from the Hilltop” column on various aspects of the display industry for Information Display magazine. He has presented numerous keynote talks and seminars on how display technologies will evolve and on the importance of manufacturing and marketing in bringing new display technologies to market.