Clay Shepherd

Clay Shepherd has devoted his professional career to the semiconductor device and flat-panel display and related manufacturing industries, in the process gathering diverse functional experience and making significant professional contributions to research, engineering, sales, marketing, product management, operations, and new technology development. He has worked since 2003 as an independent consultant in positioning, promoting, and supporting emerging as well as next-generation display and flexible electronics manufacturing technologies. Since 2011, he has worked as a part-time professor at Yamagata University’s Research Center for Organic Electronics (ROEL) in Japan. Clay earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and engineering management from Stanford University. Clay is a specialist for over 20 years in the promotion of emerging and next-generation display and printed/ flexible electronics manufacturing technologies, including devices, processes, materials. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan.