SPARK Welcomes New Chairman of the Board

Stephen Forrest, vice president for research at the University of Michigan was recently elected as Ann Arbor SPARK’s new board chair.
Professor Stephen R. Forrest was appointed Vice President for Research in September, 2005 and began his appointment on January 1,
2006.

He also holds faculty appointments as the William Gould Dow Collegiate Professor in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and
Engineering in the College of Engineering and Professor of Physics in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. He also leads the
Optoelectronics Components and Materials Group (OCM) at the University of Michigan.

Professor Forrest has authored some 440 papers in refereed journals, and has 185 patents. He is co-founder or founding participant in several companies, including Sensors Unlimited, Epitaxx, Inc., Global Photonic Energy Corp., Universal Display Corp. (NASDAQ: PANL) and Apogee Photonics, Inc.  He serves on the Board of Directors of Applied Materials.