Dr. Anthony C. Lowe

Tony Lowe is the Founder and Principal of Lambent. 
He holds a BSc in chemistry and a PhD in interfacial thermodynamics, both from Southampton University. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. 

During a 29-year career with IBM in the UK and the USA he held senior technical and managerial positions covering a range of activities from basic research to product development mainly in the field of displays but also in materials, data storage and circuit technology. In 1996, on returning from his last US assignment to IBM Research Division, he became worldwide flat monitor product development manager at IBM Greenock. He was also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Corporate Senior Technical Staff Member. 

He has been actively involved with the Society for Information Display for many years and after becoming Director of the UK & Ireland chapter, he became the Society's first Regional Vice-President for Europe and from 1998-2000 was SID worldwide President, the first non-US incumbent of this office. 

For more than fifteen years, he has been involved in display matters with UK and US governmental agencies and NGOs. In 1998-9, he played a major role in developing the Scottish Optoelectronics Association Displays Roadmap and in 1999-2000, he was a member of the Scottish Enterprise-sponsored Optoelectronics Cluster Formation Steering Committee, with a special focus on displays. 

In 2000, he left IBM and founded the Lambent Consultancy, which undertakes due diligence studies and project evaluations and offers management and expert testimony services, mainly but not exclusively in the field of display technology. 

He is a Non-Executive Director of Screen Technology Limited and from April to October 2001 was its interim CEO.

Tony is the author of 37 technical papers and 34 patent applications, 15 current issued US patents and 14 pending applications. He is the Series Editor of SID-Wiley book series in Display Technology.