Management Team

Management Team

		Tim Bush President and General Manager; DisplaySearch and Solarbuzz Tim is the President and General Manager for the DisplaySearch and Solarbuzz businesses, which are leading analyst firms in the Technology and Solar sectors and part of The NPD Group. He is chartered with expanding the breadth and depth of the global footprint of these analyst firms as NPD builds their analyst business. In addition, he sits on the board for In-Stat, which is a strategic partner of The NPD Group covering the Digital Entertainment and Wireless Telecommunication industries. Prior to becoming the President of DisplaySearch, Tim held the position of VP of Corporate Development for NPD, managing several transactions, including the acquisition of DisplaySearch. Prior to this, he was the President of the Home Products Group at NPD. Before joining NPD, Tim held executive positions at AC Nielsen, American Express and Time Warner.
		Satoshi (Sam) Matsuno President of DisplaySearch Japan Sam has 15 years of display experience from Matsushita and Compaq in the US and Japan. For 10 years, he held senior positions at Compaq in strategic planning, display procurement, market research and flat panel engineering. He has been an invited speaker at FPD conferences around the world including LCD International, Electronic Display Forum (keynote) and Fine Process Technology. Sam has also been published in most Japanese display magazines including Nikkei Microdevices, Nikkei's Flat Panel Display Yearbook, Electronic Journal and Press Journal. In addition, he pioneered the industry's first LCD/CRT price penetration curve and coined the term "mega-note." He has excellent bilingual skills and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Hiroshima University
		Paul Semenza Senior Vice President, Analyst Services Paul is responsible for managing the worldwide analyst teams at DisplaySearch. Previously Paul served as Vice President of Display Research for iSuppli Corporation from 2000-2008 and for Stanford Resources, Inc. from 1997-2000. Prior to Stanford Resources, Paul was a Program Officer at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, where he directed studies on IT policy, and was an Analyst for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), covering emerging technologies such as flat panel displays. Paul received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Master's degree in Electro-optics from Tufts University. In 1994, he received a Master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
		Yoshio Tamura Senior Vice President of DisplaySearch As a Senior Analyst, Yoshio is known for his keen insight and his excellent relationships with panel and key component suppliers. He has been an invited speaker at many display conferences in Japan and Taiwan and has published a number of extremely informative reports on Quarterly TFT LCD Cost Model. Yoshio joined DisplaySearch in 2000 after serving for nine years as a market analyst at Techno Systems Research, a respected Tokyo-based market research firm. Tamura has a Bachelor's degree in International Economics from Chuo University.
		David Hsieh Vice President of the Greater China Market David came to DisplaySearch from HannStar Display, a leading TFT LCD producer, where he was a key account manager responsible for both notebook PC and LCD monitor accounts. Prior to two years in HannStar's sales and marketing department, He served for a total of five years as production planner and production engineer at HannStar's TFT LCD module line and Hitachi Kaohsiung's STN LCD module line. David is fluent in Taiwanese, Mandarin, Japanese and English and holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Chung-Yuan Christian University.
		Hyun-Seung (HS) Ahn President of DisplaySearch Korea As director of global strategic marketing for four years in the US at AKT, Inc., an Applied Materials company, HS was responsible for market intelligence, market forecast, technical marketing, marketing communication and strategic alliances. During seven years in the TFT LCD business at Samsung Electronics in Korea, HS did strategic product planning, global marketing, investment strategic planning for next generation substrates, and managed international strategic alliances. HS was in chip design, business planning management, and marketing management in the semiconductor business at Samsung Electronics, including four years at Samsung Electronics Japan in Tokyo. He speaks Korean, Japanese and English. He has a Bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Sogang University in Seoul.

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