Bruce Berkoff
Executive Affiliate
Summary
Chief Marketing Officer of a $10B company; Board of Directors of a $20B company. Participated in and approved $10B investment decisions. Helped raise significant investment capital for both large companies and start-ups. Background in physics and biophysics specializing in innovative technologies. Past emphasis on displays, solar, and green tech transitioning into artificial intelligence and machine learning along with bio, med-tech, agri, and food tech. Professional expertise is in marketing, strategy, products, and company management, as an executive, board director and in senior advisory roles.
Core Competencies
- Unique set of vetted technology, business, and marketing experience.
- Focus has been on hardware, software, SaaS, electronic components, and biological materials, along with related processing and manufacturing technologies.
- Helped scale large global industries from displays to touch screens, from solar Photovoltaics to LEDs, and currently integrated biosensors.
- Trajectory-derived strategies based on tech advancements, markets needs, and predicting future intersections
- Helped take LPL/LGD Display Public; $1.6B IPO was first concurrent dual listing in NYSE and KSE (Seoul).
- Led product marketing and development in displays, graphics, computers, software, medical devices, projectors, spectroscopy tools, analysis capabilities, etc.
- Helped raise capital for both large companies (over $3.75B) and for smaller entities (over $60M).
Professional Passion
Very focused on marketing and monetizing great technology, products and companies. Experienced at commercializing technology and Labs to Fabs commercialization strategies.
Executive Positions
- Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President of Marketing - LG Philips LCD
- Board of Directors and Advisor - LG Display
- Chief Marketing Officer - Ascent Solar
- Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer - Energy and Display Systems of AMAT (Applied Materials)
- Vice President and General Manager - Flat Display Systems of Philips Components
- Chief Executive Officer - Enuclia Semiconductor
- Vice President of Product Line Management - INFOCUS
- Chairman and Founder - LCD TV Association
- Undergraduate degree from Princeton in Physics
- Graduate degree from UC Berkeley in Biophysics
- Executive education courses and certifications from Wharton (UPenn) and others.
- Society for Information Display
- American Physical Society
- American Chemical Society