Who We Are

Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Pixel QI.  She was named one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2008 for her work in creating One Laptop per Child  (OLPC) where she was the founding chief technology officer and its first employee.  Notably Mary Lou invented OLPC’s laptop's sunlight-readable display technology and co-invented its ultra-low-power management system.  Critically, she architected the XO laptop and transformed it into mass production – the lowest cost and lowest power laptop ever made.  She has been credited by Wired Magazine as the founder of the netbook revolution, which is predicted to grow to half of the laptop industry by 2010.  Mary Lou's earlier contributions have had world-wide adaptation in successful HDTV, projector and head-mounted display products.  In 1995 she co-founded the MicroDisplay Corporation and served as its chief technology officer through 2003.  Until the end of 2004, she was a group executive and the chief technology officer of the display division at Intel Corporation. Mary Lou holds a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with honors) and a B.A. (req.) in Studio Art all from Brown University as well as a Master of Science in Holography from the MIT Media Lab. 

John Ryan - COO and Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Previously John Ryan was a executive management consultant at the Monitor Group in Cambridge, Mass., where he advised high tech and telecom companies on structure, strategy, markets, and problem solving at board- and executive-management levels.  He has 30 years of experience in technology management and a deep understanding of electro-optics technologies.   In 1991 John founded RHK: Ryan, Hankin and Kent - the now-legendary telecom consulting and analysis company, and served as its president until it was acquired in 2005.  Prior to RHK John served in sales and marketing management roles at Coherent and Lasertron.  At age 22, John completed his PhD in Laser Physics from Imperial College, University of London.

Paying Liu - Managing Director of Pixel Qi Taiwan

In the 15 years before she joined Pixel Qi, Paying held a number of executive roles at Quanta Computer, the world's largest maker of notebook computers.  Particularly she ran much of supply chain management, transferred manufacturing from Taiwan to Mainland China, and had leadership roles on key computer brand accounts including Apple and Dell.  Paying has degrees in Computer Science and Business Management from the US.

Roger Huang - Consultant

As the Executive Vice President of Quanta Computer, Roger ran the notebook division of Quanta for over a decade.  Roger was employee #3 at Quanta and its first engineer.  He has been involved in hundreds of laptop computers, and led the design of the OLPC XO laptop at Quanta.

Frank Lee - Head of World-wide Sales

Frank has had executive positions in the IT industry for over 18 years first serving as senior vice president of sales and marketing at Quanta Computer, and then as senior vice president of strategy at Quanta Display (acquired by AUO in 2006).  He holds an MBA from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and an BS in Physics from National Central University in Taiwan

Dr. Carlin Vieri - VP of Engineering

Carlin Vieri joined Pixel Qi from Apple Computer where he engineered new generation display electronics for the iPhone and other devices.  Previously he pioneered liquid crystal on silicon electronics backplanes, drive schemes and interfaces with the MicroDisplay Corporation, where he was Director of Electronics.  He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and  BS in Electrical Enginerring from UC Berkeley. 

Dr. Robert Lu - Director of Liquid Crystal Engineering

Robert Lu is a virtuoso liquid crystal mode designer who spent the last decade as a senior researcher working with Shin-Tson Wu at University of Central Florida.  His inventiveness and detailed modeling of liquid crystal modes is widely lauded.  Previously he led LC engineering at Lightwaves2020, a telecom component startup.  He holds a PhD from Fudan University in China.