John M. Manning, Ph.D.

San Jose, CA 95124

Phone: 408.445.1446, Fax: 408.978.1446, Mobile: 650.380.2900, E-mail: drj_manning@earthlink.net

Keywords:
CEO, Officer, President, Board, Director, Operations, Technology, Strategic, Partnership, International,
Medical, Devices, Semiconductors, Solar, Sensors, Energy, Cleantech, Displays, Imaging, Optical,
Instruments, Mixed-Signal, Analog, Audio, Acoustics, Consumer, MEMS

Summary: A proven President and CEO with over thirty-five years of experience in a broad range of positions of
increasing responsibility. Established an outstanding record of achieving difficult goals, developing imaginative and
realizable plans, working with all levels of management in a variety of company sizes and industries, both
domestically and internationally. Have the proven ability to hire and empower top people from around the world.
An expert in international joint venturing and strategic technology partnerships.

Experience:
Liqcrytech, LLC 2008 - present
BOARD DIRECTOR
Liqcrytech, LLC is an emerging private Research and Development company focusing on nano-technology and
MEMS applied to energy savings and generation.

Nexeon Glass, Inc. 2008 - present

BOARD DIRECTOR
Nexeon Glass, Inc. develops and manufactures advanced glass products, Futureglass™, utilizing advanced nano-
technology. This is an innovation that delivers scalable smart glass capability, and introduces one-of-a-kind
controllable tinting and aesthetic effects to any window application using the power of the sun.

dpiX, LLC and dpiX Holding, LLC, Palo Alto, CA 2000 - 2007
CEO, PRESIDENT AND BOARD DIRECTOR
Brought in to run these high-tech medical device partnerships by a consortium of competitors: Philips
(Netherlands), Siemens (Germany), Thales (formerly Thomsen-CSF, France), Varian (USA and Switzerland), Xerox
(USA), and Planar Systems (USA). Consortium members require the unique technology developed by dpiX for use
in x-ray medical imaging systems, non-destructive testing systems, security and other novel applications.
Combined, these consortium members control 70% of the worldwide market for x-ray based imaging and 90% of
the worldwide market for radiotherapy systems. dpiX develops, designs and manufactures x-ray sensors using
state of the art amorphous Silicon TFT, p-i-n diode, scintillator and direct detection techniques. dpiX has full
semiconductor fabrication facilities for producing these 7M+ pixel arrays on large glass substrates.
Major Accomplishments:
 Reduced employee turnover from 40% annualized to 4% in the first year.
 Showed the company’s first profit in its several year history.
 Divested the company of its losing high-resolution military avionics LCD display business and transitioned it
to the higher margin sensor-array business in 9 months.
 Increased annual revenue from $6M USD to over $75M USD with solid profitability and positive cash flows.
 Brought dpiX to the position of number one supplier of x-ray detection arrays in the world. Almost every
manufacturer of x-ray diagnostic and treatment systems in the world utilize dpiX products.
 Expanded manufacturing capacity by building an additional Gen 4.5 fab facility in the western US, as well
as developing a strategic manufacturing alliance with one of the world’s premier LCD makers, located in
Asia. This investment gave dpiX sufficient manufacturing capacity to meet its needs beyond 2015.

Sharp Microelectronics Technology, Inc., Camas, WA 1997 - 1999

CEO, PRESIDENT AND BOARD DIRECTOR
Responsible for all aspects of this US corporation (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sharp Corp., Japan). Sharp
Microelectronics is a leader in LCD technology, advanced deep sub-micron Si process development,
telecommunications products, multimedia and machine vision products. Sharp Microelectronics develops a broad
range of integrated circuits, using the latest technologies, for System-On-a-Chip (SOC), DSP and ASIC component
markets. Operations are in Camas, WA; Huntington Beach and San Jose, CA. Manufacturing is in Camas, as well
as in Fukuyama, Mie, and Tenri, Japan. Additional manufacturing is done in Taiwan and Singapore.
Major Accomplishments:
 Enacted changes to the strategic direction of the company that excised poorly performing business areas
and strengthened those with the greatest potential for growth and profitability.
 Eliminated all commodity SRAM sales.
 Transferred STN LCD display manufacturing to cheaper offshore facilities.
 In the face of a down marketplace (US, -13.5%; Europe, -5.4%; Asia-Pacific, -7.2%), grew consolidated
product sales 28.9%, reduced expenses 11%, attained profitability in all product divisions. This was
accomplished by introducing new products and business units (14 new machine vision and multimedia
products, 5 new module products – a new business area, 5 new TFT LCD products, and 10 new products
in the IC Division).
 Increased consolidated revenues to over $750M USD with a 10.6% net profit.
 Under my direction, the company filed 53 new patent applications and had 36 issue.
 Expanded design resources in Camas and opened new design centers in other strategic US and European
locations.
 Redefined the methods and channels used for sales and distribution.
 Elected to the Board of Directors for the Association of Washington Business.
 Played a key role in getting legislation passed to improve infrastructure, transportation and power in
southwest Washington by one-on-one meetings with the Governor and Legislators.

Executive Consultant, Tucson, AZ 1993 - 1997

Provided executive consulting services to the Boards of Directors of several high-tech companies. Clients include
Arizona Packaging Software, Inc. in Tucson, AZ; Signagraphics Corp., Mesa, AZ; Mayflower Business Systems,
GMBH, Ulm, Germany and ANACAD, Grenoble, France.

Monolith Technologies Corp., Tucson, AZ 1990 - 1993

CEO, PRESIDENT AND BOARD DIRECTOR
Responsible for leading the company towards becoming a significant presence in mixed analog and digital
integrated circuits with applications in multimedia, digital telecommunications, active noise reduction, compression
and decompression, DSP and consumer audio.
Major Accomplishments:
 Formed Monolith Technologies Corporation as an independent joint venture between Burr-Brown Corp.
(USA) and Hualon Microelectronics Corp. (Taiwan), equal minority equity partners.
 Recruited an organization of top executives and engineers from all corners of the globe and quickly began
developing new products per our strategic plan.
 Established manufacturing agreements in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Austria for fabrication,
assembly and test of Monolith Technologies’ products.
 Established a marketing relationship, which presents Monolith Technologies’ products to customers in over
60 countries around the world.
 Also served as the company’s CFO and Treasurer.
 Raised sufficient capital from the two equity partners to take the company to self-financing its growth with
no further debt or equity financing required.
 Took revenues from $0 to over $40M USD.
 Monolith Technologies is unique among US semiconductor companies in that the largest end customers for
its products are Japanese electronics companies (Sony, Yamaha, etc.).
 Established close working relationships with companies and customers in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore,
Malaysia, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Russia, UK and the US.

Burr-Brown Corp., Tucson, AZ 1989 - 1990

VICE PRESIDENT, CORP. DEV. & SYSTEMS PRODUCTS OPERATIONS
Reported to the CEO/President. Responsible for defining and developing new market and technology directions for
the corporation. Also had full P&L responsibility for all of the company’s “ventures” and all systems products
business units worldwide. The Presidents of the “ventures” (majority owned subsidiary companies of Burr-Brown)
reported to me directly and I served on their Boards of Directors. The Burr-Brown Vice Presidents and General
Managers of all system level, board level and advanced component Strategic Business Units also reported to me
directly.
Major Accomplishments:
 Grew these businesses from 15% to 30% of Burr-Brown worldwide-consolidated revenues in one year.
 Consolidated revenues for these business units rose to $55M USD for FY1990 with a reversal from a net
loss to a net profit position in the same period.
 Divested a poor performing Business Unit in Scotland through a management buy-out. This move saved
Burr-Brown approximately $10M USD in shut down and redundancy expenses and gained Burr-Brown
approximately $15M USD as a result of the sale. The new Scottish company is now healthy and growing
and both parties received goodwill and satisfied customers as a result.
 Identified a new set of high growth markets and licensed the appropriate new technologies necessary to
serve those markets. Developed a comprehensive business plan to attack these markets. Negotiated a
partnership with a $6B USD Taiwanese conglomerate of companies and set the foundation for the
formation of Monolith Technologies as a joint venture.
 Left Burr-Brown as a result of being elected President and CEO of this new joint venture corp.

Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT 1983 - 1989
DIRECTOR, CORP. DEVELOPMENT
Reported to the Chairman/CEO/President. Responsible for identifying and acquiring new businesses and/or
technologies that supported the corporate strategic plan. Established a VLSI center within E&S to design all of its
integrated circuits for next generation graphics display systems, as well as multi-million dollar flight simulator
systems. Managed the co-development (with New York Institute of Technology) of a proprietary deformable
membrane projection display system. Was the “Company Doctor”, or turnaround specialist, for the start-up
companies that E&S invested in. Was responsible for reviewing business, marketing, technology and investment
plans for E&S, as well as several large venture capital firms that co-invested with E&S in technology businesses.
Acted in both staff and line capacities.

Pro-Log Corp., Monterey, CA 1981 - 1983

VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING
Reported to the Chairman/CEO/President. Responsible for all engineering for the company. This job focused on
new product development, manufacturing and quality engineering, and the documentation and control functions.
Developed several new types of products that enhanced the existing product families. Also developed new STD
Bus products, as well as PROM programmers and their personality modules. Established and chaired the
Operating Committee.

Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO 1972 - 1981

DIRECTOR, INTEGRATED CIRCUITS R&D
Joined HP after graduation as an R&D engineer in the Loveland Instruments Division. Designed HP’s first NMOS
integrated circuits. Invented the technology, theories, models and processes for designing high performance linear
circuits in NMOS (my Doctoral research-sponsored by HP). Managed the development of a family of new digital
multimeters. Managed Sources & Analyzers R&D. Introduced the HP 339A Distortion Measurement Set that was
chosen by EETimes as one of the top 10 products of 1977. Managed all Integrated Circuit engineering (R&D,
process, product, assembly and test) for the Loveland IC Operation. Directed corporate-wide IC strategy for 13
different IC operations. Began the consolidation of facilities towards what now exists at HP/Agilent. Secretary of
the Semiconductor Technology Council for the company. Assigned as a member of the Board of Directors for
Design Automation for HP (reporting to Bill Hewlett).

Education: Stanford Univ. “Exec. MBA” AEA/Stanford Exec. Inst. 1992

Columbia Pac. Univ. Ph.D. Electrical Engineering/Physics 1980
Colorado State Univ. MS Electrical Engineering 1976
Brigham Young Univ. BS Electrical Engineering 1972

Professional Affiliations and Honors: Governing Board of Directors of the US Display Consortium (now,
FlexTech), member of Executive Committee and Head of Finance Committee (2000-2007); Founding Committee of
the Global Display Network; AeA Technology, Manufacturing and Infrastructure Committee (1993); European Trade
Roundtable (1992); Asian Trade Roundtable and Delegation (1992); Adjunct Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of
Hawaii (1979-83); IEEE (Sr. Member); Audio Engineering Society (Fellow nominee); SPIE – International Society
for Optical Engineering; Asian American Multi-technology Assoc. (Life Member); Eta Kappa Nu (Life Member).
Board Experience:
 Liqcrytech Board of Directors: 2008 - present
 Nexeon Glass, Inc. Board of Directors: 2008 - present
 dpiX, LLC Board of Management: 2000 – 2007
 US Display Consortium (now FlexTech Consortium) Governing Board of Directors: 2000 - 2007
 Association of Washington Business Board of Directors: 1997 - 2000
 Sharp Microelectronics Technology Corp. Board of Directors: 1997 - 1999
 Monolith Technologies Board of Directors: 1990 - 1993
 Pentland Systems, Ltd., Board of Management: 1989 - 1990
 Mosaic Systems, Inc., Board of Directors: 1983 - 1985
 Hewlett Packard Board of Directors for Design Automation: 1975 - 1981