Ian French

Ian French is CTO for E Ink Taiwan, leading the RD Team in developing new technologies and products.

Ian joined E Ink in 2010 and prior to becoming CTO led teams developing flexible displays, signage panels and novel TFT architectures for products like round watches with central holes and flexible wrist bands. More recently he was technical lead for E Ink Kaleido displays, which are the first high volume color displays made by E Ink.

Prior to joining E Ink Ian worked for Philips Research for many years leading different display and imaging projects and developing plasma deposited layers for a range of Thin Film technologies and applications. At Philips he was involved in many basic scientific studies as well as developing devices. Ian spent significant time transferring technology to partners in Netherlands, Japan and Korea during his time at Philips.

Ian received his M.Sc from University of Dundee and B.Sc from University of Sussex.