Ken Purchase

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.

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.

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.

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.