SENIOR EXECUTIVES

Art Swift
President & CEO

Mr. Swift brings over 20 years of senior management experience in the semiconductor industry to Unidym. Previously, Mr. Swift was President and CEO of Transmeta Corporation, an innovative semiconductor company in the Silicon Valley. Prior to his promotion to CEO, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing. At Transmeta, Mr. Swift was instrumental in transforming the company's strategy from selling semiconductor chips to developing and licensing intellectual property. Prior to Transmeta, Mr. Swift held senior leadership roles ranging from Office of the President and Chief Operating Officer at an embedded software startup, Lynuxworks, to Vice President and General Manager at a variety of large divisions of the established chip-maker Cirrus Logic. Art has also held senior marketing and engineering positions with Summit Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, and Fairchild Semiconductor. Mr. Swift holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.


Professor George Grüner
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Founder

Dr. Grüner is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California Los Angeles. He is the founder of Unidym, pioneering research into CNT-based films and transistors. He has served as a consultant to and advisory board member for numerous companies and government agencies, including IBM, Exxon and Superconductor Technologies, Inc. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Grüner was the Chief Technical Officer and Chief Scientist of Nanomix Inc., a role for which he received the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Award. Dr. Grüner has published over 400 papers and 2 books and is the inventor of over 30 patents and patent applications in the field of nanotechnology. He is one of the 200 most "Highly Cited Scientists" in the field of physics worldwide. Dr. Grüner's recognitions include the Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt awards. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Budapest, Hungary. In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Physics at UCLA. He has directed a research group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.


Dr. Paul Drzaic
Chief Technology Officer.

Dr. Paul Drzaic is widely recognized in the fields of flat panel displays, printed and flexible electronics, and several areas of materials science. Paul comes to Unidym from Alien Technology Corporation, where he served as Vice President for Advanced Development. At Alien, he was responsible for management of over $30M of projects in the development of several areas of technology in both radio frequency identification (RFID) and flexible electronics, as well as managing the intellectual property portfolio for the company. Prior to Alien, Paul served as the first Director of Technology at E Ink Corporation, leading a group of scientists and engineers in the development of that company's first electronic paper prototypes. Paul also has a strong reputation in the field of liquid crystal displays due to his work at Taliq Corporation. Paul both a Fellow of and President of the Society for Information Display, the leading international society supporting the development of flat panel displays, and has held several leadership positions within the Materials Research Society, one of the leading organizations in nanotechnology research, including his current position as Chair of the Editorial Board of the MRS Bulletin. Paul has won several national awards, is the author of over 50 patents, 20 journal publications, and is author of a book on liquid crystal displays. Paul has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University.