An optical physicist by training, Euan has taken a varied path over 25 years of commercially facing technology development and technical leadership, mostly within startups, and occasionally hunched in the back of a clean-room in China trying desperately to get the production process to work. He is an author on over 40 patent families, more than 160 patents in total, across diverse technical areas.
Euan still publishes the occasional technical paper, is an IEC technical expert, and is an international speaker on this, and other subjects. Euan has enjoyed challenges from nano-scale photonics to system-level display design, image processing on restricted embedded systems, through to full-stack web-app development, always while balancing the competing requirements of customers and the limits of technology.