Ken Purchase
Chief Operating Officer at Trio Labs
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Operating Officer
2020 - Current
The Trio Labs team is proudly bringing new Additive Manufacturing technology to market to enable smaller and higher-performance medical devices, through production of small, ultra-precise metal and ceramic parts for use in medical devices and beyond.
Trio Labs is a manufacturing technology company that manufactures precision metal and ceramic components for healthcare applications.
Raised $3,870,669.00 from Zoic Capital.
Member, Investor, Advisor
2018
Senior Director of Business Development
2019 - 2021
X-Celeprint develops, supports, and licenses the Micro Transfer Printing (MTP) process, a semiconductor technology that allows massively parallel transfer of extremely thin semiconductor dies to achieve higher-density multi-material 3D Heterogeneous Integration, enabling higher-performance semiconductors. Brought in significant non-dilutive funding and developed strategic partnerships.
Product Development Manager
2005 - 2019
Leading volume manufacturer of precision microstructured and microlensed surfaces for consumer electronics, displays, and LED lighting. Created core technology and continued in product development, technical leadership and mentoring, market strategy, product management, design and engineering, IP generation.
Bright View Technologies produces microstructure-based, optical films products for plasma, LCD, rear projection, front projection and OLED.
Raised $26,500,000.00 from Sevin Rosen Funds, Intersouth Partners, Ridgewood Capital and Palo Alto Venture Partners.
Senior Engineer / Team Leader
2002 - 2005
Agile multidisciplinary leadership to relentlessly reduce defects and improve yield, supporting several successive generations of mobile memory and processor development and manufacturing in high-throughput 24/7 operation.
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Technical Program Manager, New Product Development
1997 - 2002
(Lightwave Microsystems, acquired by Neophotonics) Program management, new product development and introduction, optical device design and engineering. Inventor of the (now global standard) athermal AWG module.
NeoPhotonics offers optical components, modules and subsystems for the delivery of video, voice and data over telecommunication networks.
Raised $229,673,840.00 from CDP Capital Technology Ventures, Dominion Ventures, Dow Corning, Sands Brothers Asset Management, Linkmore Capital, Venrock, Nth Power Technologies, Inc., Hydro-Québec CapiTech, XR Ventures and IVP.