Aveso Displays | Management Team

Nicholas Wood, Executive Chairman
Kathleen Phillips, General Manager and Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Andy Warner, Vice President, Engineering
Don Lehman, Vice President, Operations
Peggy Klug, Controller

NICHOLAS WOOD, Executive Chairman
Wood is currently a partner at Kidron LLC, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm. Prior to joining Kidron, Wood was the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Emosyn LLC, a fabless semiconductor company in the smart card and security markets. In April 2005 he sold Emosyn to Silicon Storage Technology after growing the business to approximately $40 million with sixteen patents issued. Prior to founding Emosyn, Wood served as Vice President Marketing for ATMI, Inc., a semiconductor materials company. Wood also spent ten years with Intel Corporation in Europe.

KATHLEEN PHILLIPS, General Manager and Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Phillips is a veteran of the identity card industry having served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Fargo Electronics through its acquisition by HID / ASSA ABLOY. She helped the company grow from its early start through to $100M in revenues and globally launched multiple new products and product platforms, which now form the mainstay of the company's business. Phillips holds a BS in Computer Science from Creighton University.

ANDY WARNER, Vice President, Engineering
Warner comes to Aveso from Xiotech, a privately held developer of data storage and protection solutions, where he was a Senior Principal Engineer responsible for software development. Warner has also held senior engineering positions at Cray Research, Digi International and multiple start-ups. In addition he has been retained as a consultant by numerous companies from start-ups to multinationals. Warner holds a BSc in Communications Engineering from Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom.

DON LEHMAN, Vice President, Operations
Lehman brings over thirty years of operations, supply chain and executive leadership expertise to Aveso. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Operations for ATMI Packaging, Inc, where he led a global team of one hundred and fifty people; expanded US operations; and established manufacturing partnerships to open new facilities in Korea, Japan and Belgium. Prior to ATMI, Lehman served in executive roles as General Manager for Marketech, a Division of Rohwedder Group International; Director of Operations at The Bergquist Company; and Vice President of Operations for Micro Component Technology, Inc.

PEGGY KLUG, Controller
Klug brings to Aveso more than twenty-three years of experience in finance, with over fifteen years in controller roles for high-growth start-ups, primarily in the software industry. Most recently, Klug served as Controller for Integrated Decisions and Systems, Inc. (IDeaS), a leading provider of hospitality focused pricing and revenue optimization solutions. Prior to IDeaS, Peggy worked for Exact Software, based in the Netherlands, where she was division Controller for the ERP division.