MicroVision Announces Addition of Bernee D.L. Strom to its Board of Directors
October 10 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVIS), a leader in innovative
ultra-miniature projection display and sensing technology, today
announced that it has elected Bernee D.L. Strom to its board of
directors. With the addition of Strom, the MicroVision board
numbers eight members.
Strom has an extensive and distinguished background spanning
over 25 years in executive management, marked by advisory roles and
board memberships at Polaroid Corporation, Hughes
Electronics/DirecTV, Benchmark Electronics, and other public and
privately held companies.
Strom is currently a Senior Advisor to Seattle-based investment
bank Cascadia Capital and SkyLIFE Technologies, a company that
disrupts and markedly improves the distribution of humanitarian aid
and disaster relief. Gemstar/TV Guide International (now part of
TIVO), Priceline.com, and USA Digital Radio (now HD Radio) are
among the companies Strom founded or ran. Further, she was a
founding partner of Revitalization Partners, a Seattle-based
business advisory firm. Strom remains Chairman and CEO of Strom
Group, an investment, management consulting, and business advisory
firm focused on high technology companies.
“Bernee Strom is a tremendous addition to the MicroVision board
of directors with her background as a founder, leader, and board
member of many public and private high technology companies,” said
Brian Turner, Chairman and Independent Director at MicroVision.
“Bernee brings a distinguished track record as an entrepreneur,
mentor, and business executive, and we look forward to her joining
our board.”
Strom was named one of the leading business women of the State
of Washington with its Lead Where You Land award and is the
recipient of many other awards and recognition for her mentorship,
entrepreneurship, and leadership in both commercial, educational,
and civic organizations.
“I am looking forward to joining MicroVision’s board of
directors and working with my fellow directors and management at
this exciting time for the company and its technology,” said Bernee
Strom, newly elected Director of MicroVision. “The scanning engine
products for display, interactive display, and 3D sensing, and the
development programs the company has undertaken with major
technology companies open up multiple opportunities to be part of
emerging, high growth markets.”
About MicroVision
MicroVision is the creator of PicoP® scanning technology, an
ultra-miniature laser projection and sensing solution based on the
laser beam scanning methodology pioneered by the company.
MicroVision's platform approach for this advanced display and
sensing solution means that it can be adapted to a wide array of
applications and form factors. It is an advanced solution for a
rapidly evolving, always-on world. Extensive research has led
MicroVision to become an independently recognized leader in the
development of intellectual property. MicroVision’s IP portfolio
has been recognized by the Patent Board as a top 50 IP portfolio
among global industrial companies and has been included in the
Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index. The company is based in Redmond,
Wash.
For more information, visit the company’s website at
www.microvision.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MicroVisionInc
or follow MicroVision on Twitter at @MicroVision.
MicroVision and PicoP are trademarks of MicroVision, Inc. in the
United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the
properties of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this release, including those
relating to possibilities for future product, product applications
and expansion into new markets are forward-looking statements that
involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in
the company's forward-looking statements include the following: our
ability to raise additional capital when needed; products
incorporating our PicoP® scanning technology may not achieve market
acceptance, commercial partners may not perform under agreements as
anticipated, we may be unsuccessful in identifying parties
interested in paying any amounts or amounts we deem desirable for
the purchase or license of IP assets, our or our customers failure
to perform under open purchase orders; our financial and technical
resources relative to those of our competitors; our ability to keep
up with rapid technological change; government regulation of our
technologies; our ability to enforce our intellectual property
rights and protect our proprietary technologies; the ability to
obtain additional contract awards; the timing of commercial product
launches and delays in product development; the ability to achieve
key technical milestones in key products; dependence on third
parties to develop, manufacture, sell and market our products;
potential product liability claims; and other risk factors
identified from time to time in the company's SEC reports,
including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the
SEC. Except as expressly required by federal securities laws, we
undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events, changes in circumstances or any other reason.
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MicroVision, Inc.Dawn Goetter, 425-882-6629
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