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Global SVP appointed at LED & laser developer Soraa
The U.S. developer of gallium nitride based LEDs and laser diode products has added former Hewlett Packard Imaging and Printing SVP Neal Woods to its team.
Soraa has appointed former Neal Woods as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations.
"Neal brings a breadth of operations management experience that is necessary to guide our organisation as we commercialise and begin volume production of truly disruptive products," said Eric Kim, Chief Executive Officer. "We are very excited that he has chosen to join our world-class team and is committed to helping us fulfil the potential of our solid state illumination products," he later added.
Woods, will be based at Soraa's Fremont, California. headquarters and have responsibility for all aspects of manufacturing, supply chain operations, quality functions, and worldwide operations planning.
Woods has served as Senior Vice President of Operations for Hewlett-Packard's Imaging & Printing Group since 2008. While at HP, Woods had ownership for IPG's entire supply chain with $30 billion in annual revenue. He was previously the VP of Global Manufacturing Operations for Cisco Systems.
