SmartKem, Inc. Appoints Nigel Prue as Chief Accounting Officer
September 08, 2022 at 06:00 pm IST
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SmartKem, Inc. announced the new appointment of Nigel Prue as Chief Accounting Officer. Nigel has extensive experience implementing SOX compliance procedures and prior to joining SmartKem in 2021 worked as
Director of Finance at Global Eagle Entertainment Inc, a publicly traded company on NASDAQ in the media & telecoms industry, for six years. He was also a divisional finance director at construction companies Balfour Beatty Construction and Kier May Gurney. His early career includes public practice with PwC and controllership roles at AT&T. Nigel is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of England and Wales (ICAEW).
SmartKem, Inc. provides disruptive organic thin-film transistors, which have the potential to drive the displays. The Companyâs patented TRUFLEX semiconductor and dielectric inks, or electronic polymers, are used to make transistors. Its inks enable low temperature printing processes, which are compatible with existing manufacturing infrastructure to deliver displays. The Company's electronic polymer platform can be used in various display technologies, including micro-light-emitting diode (LED), mini-LED and active-matrix organic LED displays for televisions, laptops, augmented reality and virtual reality headsets, smartwatches, and smartphones. Its research and development facility is located in Manchester, United Kingdom, and semiconductor manufacturing processes at Sedgefield, United Kingdom and retains a field application office in Taiwan. The Company has an intellectual property portfolio, including 125 granted patents across 19 patent families and 40 codified trade secrets.
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