Andy has held CEO roles for 20 years. Previously he served as President and CEO of PhotoWorks, Inc., where he shaped a new strategy, streamlined operations, sharply focused the company's goals and led the company to an acquisition by American Greetings in 2008. Prior, he served as CEO of SkyBitz, a satellite tracking based service business, where market strategy, sales traction, product stabilization and development, and channel partnerships were significant challenges. These issues were resolved, along with a new $20Million round of financing that brought Motorola in as a strategic partner and investor. He also served as CEO of Shutterfly, the national leading online photographic business, where he guided the company to profitability well ahead of schedule. Andy has served as CEO of Wood-ASIO, a consulting organization providing confidential assistance to technology and service industry companies and VC's.
Throughout his career, he has gained expertise in growing business operations in complex emerging markets. As CEO of Exel Logistics, he launched the North American business and successfully steered the company's revenue to $500M in four years, along with high profitability. Andy cut his teeth in the corporate world with Coca Cola in the UK, where he was part of a team charged with energizing and restructuring the UK soft drinks market.
He continues to advise several companies and VC's, as well as serving as a Board member of two organizations in addition to PureDepth.
Joe Moran Interim Chief Financial Officer
Joe Moran joins PureDepth as interim CFO from The Brenner Group, a leading Silicon Valley financial services firm. Moran has previously worked as CFO at StepNexus, a privately-held provider of trusted services for devices as well as CFO for Telephia, Inc., Intraspect Software and Calico Commerce. Earlier in his career, he held the position of VP Finance at Sybase, Inc. as well as financial management positions at Tandem Computers, Chevron and The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Yutaka (Taka) Nagata Vice President and General Manager, Japan
A 40-year veteran of the consumer electronics industry, Nagata is charged with spearheading PureDepth's expansion in the Japanese market, assisting new and existing customers in maximizing their use of PureDepth's cutting-edge technology, and ensuring new product enhancements from PureDepth are available to the growing 3-D and visual display market spaces.
Prior to joining PureDepth, Nagata served as Japan country manager for U.S. company 3M Touch Systems. During his tenure at the company, Nagata was instrumental in obtaining major OEM accounts, including Sharp, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, IBM, and Hitachi.
Nagata was previously president of MicroTouch Systems Japan, which was acquired by 3M in 2001. As president of Cognex Japan (1990-1994), Nagata established the company's Japan office, expanded its market share and tripled the size of the business.
In 1982, Nagata co-founded CADTECH Inc, where, for eight years, he oversaw the company's CAD/CAM System & Data Communication and Computer Peripheral Equipment divisions.
Nagata has also served in executive and engineer roles at electronics trading company Marubun Corp. (1977-1982) and Hitachi Electronics (1970-1977). Holding a degree in electronics engineering from Doshiba University, Nagata has published several articles in electronics journals, holds two patents in the U.S., Japan and Germany, and has been recognized for his achievements with several awards over the years.
Grant Gatland Vice President, Engineering and Product Development
As Vice President of Engineering and Product Development for PureDepth since 2005, Grant Gatland is responsible for overseeing the development processes for Multi-Layer Display (MLD™) products for the company's technology licensees. In his position, Gatland continually refines back-light technologies utilized in MLD products and oversees the manufacturing of PureDepth's patented interstitial diffuser component, which removes optical interference between multiple LCD screens and allows viewers to see real depth.
Prior to joining PureDepth, Gatland worked with Belfor to launch high-technology disaster restoration companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Bangkok, Thailand, where he successfully established operations and set the companies on course for long term success. While working in Thailand, Gatland was called on to lead a major disaster restoration project in a semi-conductor wafer fabrication plant located in Temecula, California. Because of the success of that project, Gatland was asked to transfer to the U.S in 2001 to establish and lead high-technology disaster restoration operations throughout the country.
From 1993-1996, Gatland managed two sheet-metal manufacturing companies, and prior to that, he spent eleven years at Fisher & Paykel Limited, where he was responsible for all automation and control systems for a number of production systems and new manufacturing lines. He was also heavily involved in plastic mold design, sheet metal press design and other specialist equipment (robotics, coil winding, magnetizing, etc), and was responsible for bringing these functions together in seamless computer-controlled automated production lines.
Gatland completed a New Zealand Certificate in Engineering (NZCE) in Electrical, Electronics and Control Systems in 1982.
Darryl S.K. Singh Vice President, Software and Content Development
Darryl Singh serves as Vice President, Software and Content Development for PureDepth reporting directly to the CEO. He leads a multi-disciplinary team responsible for state-of-the-art visual capabilities and user experience for the Multi-Layer Display platform including content creation, user interface design, image processing and software engineering. Darryl has been instrumental in establishing PureDepth's software technology position in parallel with developing emerging commercial strategies and aligning these to tangible business opportunities.
Darryl joined PureDepth in 2005 and has since built a world-class team of technology experts. He has worked extensively with customers in Japan, Korea, and the US and served as Project Manager, responsible for all deliverables and technology transfer, to PureDepth's key licensee and partner, SANYO. He has lead consultancy services with all major 3rd party software and content developers of Multi-Layer Display technology including IGT, Abilit and various other game developers.
Prior to PureDepth, he worked at Datacom, New Zealand's largest Software and Integration company in software development, project management and client interfacing roles with accounts including Zespri International, ASB Bank and Tenon USA.
Darryl holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering with First Class Honors from the University of Auckland and has published papers in the field of Human Computer Interaction.
Gareth Bell Chief Scientist
Gareth Bell is PureDepth's Chief Scientist, a role he has held since 2005. An expert in Multi-Layer Display (MLD™) optics and its relationship to the human visual experience, Bell began his career at PureDepth in 2000 as a Research Technician.
Since then, he has successfully bid for and completed a research contract with the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, a division of the U.S. Air Force. This resulted in the development of an expression for color mixing over layers in multi-layered displays, an expression that relates to the effect on an image of a film given its light scattering properties and image separation and a metric to quantify the interference between multiple LCD screens on a perceptual basis.
Bell is an author of PureDepth's core MLD patents, specifically those that involve the process for overcoming the problems of visual interference between two layers of display panels. As head of the Research and Development department at PureDepth, Bell and his team are responsible for designing the next-generation technology roadmap, overseeing new intellectual property development, enhancing the visual experience and creating new technology applications.
