Senior Director of Startup Development
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Intellectual Ventures
Homer has recently joined Intellectual Ventures to lead the nucleation and development of startup companies at Invention Science Fund Incubator.
Homer has more than 25 years of experience envisioning and shepherding new groundbreaking solutions in the fields of consumer and printed electronics, OLED displays/lighting and photovoltaics. He held positions as an engineer, technology leader and executive in a number of multinational and technology startup companies including Kateeva, DuPont, Innovalight, Osram, HP, and Xerox.
Widely recognized as an authority in the OLED and photovoltaics fields, Homer is a frequent lecturer and conference chair at leading industry events. He served on the board of the PV Cell Tech Conference, the International Photovoltaic Quality Assurance Task Force, the National Research Energy Laboratory (NREL) External Advisory Council, and the Advisory Board of OLEDs World Summit. In March 2017 he was awarded the title of NextFlex Fellow.
Homer has more than 70 publications in OLED displays, polymer materials, crystalline and amorphous silicon photovoltaics, and is a named inventor on more than 30 issued U.S. patents. A native of Greece, he received his B.S. in Physics from Ioannina University in Greece, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University.