Dr. James C. McGroddy, retired Senior Vice President of IBM, has joined the Board of Directors of Forth Dimension Displays, an emerging Scottish microdisplay firm.

"Forth Dimension Displays has put together a high quality team and is well positioned to become a key player in the display marketplace. I look forward to adding value as ForthDD moves aggressively into a number of rapidly expanding application areas which fit well to the technology base they have brought to maturity," said Dr. McGroddy.

"Jim's proven leadership in driving new display technologies to the marketplace through cooperation with Asian partners is very important to Forth Dimension Displays as we take our technology into larger consumer segments, such as rear projection HDTVs," said Leslie G. Polgar, CEO. "While at IBM, Jim was a leader of their joint venture with Toshiba that made LCD displays for laptop computers a reality," Polgar added.

McGroddy's career with IBM focused on the introduction of new methods to enhance the linkage of R&D to manufacturing and product exploitation. During his tenure, which spanned the period of IBM's most difficult challenges, he led a major restructuring of its research efforts, building a model and management system which is now widely emulated because of its effectiveness in enhancing the return on the research investment.

Since leaving IBM, McGroddy has consulted for a number of companies in the display area, as well as across a broader swath of hardware and software technologies. He is Chairman of the Board of MIQS, a healthcare software firm, and of Advanced Networks and Services, and serves on the Board of Paxar Corporation, a New York Exchange traded company. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received his BS in Physics from St. Joseph's University, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland.

Forth Dimension Displays develops and makes the world's only all-digital, high definition, single-chip, time-domain imagers.