Potter Named Vice President of Display Products at Three-Five Systems, Inc.
Wednesday February 19, 9:04 am ET
TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Three-Five Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TFS - News), a Tempe-based provider of display system solutions and engineering and manufacturing services, today announced that it has named Van H. Potter as Vice President of Display Products.
For the past year, Potter served as Market Development Manager and Project Manager at the Rogers Corporation in Chandler, Arizona. From 1994 to 2002 he held a variety of management, marketing and new business development posts at Durel Corp., the Chandler-based joint venture of Rogers and the 3M Corporation. Durel manufactures custom electroluminescent backlighting system components and semiconductors for the global consumer electronics display industry.
At Three-Five Systems, Potter will be responsible for the design, engineering and sales of the company's broad line of custom and standard display products widely used in the cell phone, industrial, consumer and computer industries. Also reporting to Potter will be AVT, the Massachusetts-based group that Three-Five purchased in 2002. AVT specializes in the design, customization and integration of high-resolution CRT and flat panel monitors.
"Over the past year we have been successfully evolving the company into a well-diversified, global, display-centric solutions provider," said Jack L. Saltich, Three-Five's President and CEO. "With Van's 18 years of experience in technology marketing we believe he is ideally suited to lead this large and important segment of our business."
Potter received a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with high honors from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts in 1983. He received an MBA Degree, also with high honors, from Arizona State University in 2001.
About Three-Five Systems®
Three-Five Systems, Inc. is a worldwide supplier and recognized leader in providing display system solutions, as well as engineering and manufacturing services, to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Through its Integrated Systems & Displays division, the company offers full service engineering and manufacturing with a special emphasis on display products and systems. The ISD division also has a broad range of display products including monochrome and color LCD components, organic light emitting displays (OLEDs), and CRT and flat panel monitors. Through its Microdisplay division, the company offers discrete microdisplay devices through completely integrated microdisplay engine solutions based on its liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS(TM)) microdisplays. Examples of applications for Three-Five's products and services include handheld devices, test and measurement devices, medical instrumentation, customized CRT and flat panel monitors, wearable computers, high-definition televisions, and multimedia projectors. The company drives new product development activities using internal capabilities, leveraging industry partnerships, and through its David R. Buchanan LCD laboratory, which is solely dedicated to the development of LCoS microdisplays. The company's Web site is located at www.threefive.com .
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