About our Founder, John Wood
John Wood received his first degree (Physics) and his doctorate from the University of Bristol. While a laboratory-based Materials Scientist at IBM, John was responsible for analysing component field failures and for the design of many innovative IT components including the transducer on the world’s first touch screen monitor, the encapsulation of the first chip on flex disk file circuits, custom silicon chips, printed circuit boards, packaging and flexible circuits, disk files and monitors. Later, as a Senior Advisory Scientist, his experience of environmentally testing components led him to investigate and resolve machine room environmental problems and digital printing issues in IBM customer sites across Europe.
John has worked and taught at Cambridge, is an inventor on four patents (all assigned to IBM), and the author of more than 25 published papers covering passive display systems, corrosion, theoretical chemistry, electron physics and electron emission analysis, and vacuum systems. Known in the industry as Dr. Dust, John’s highly successful approach to problem solving is simple - establish the facts, recognise the anomalies, find the most practical solution possible - an ethos he has passed on to the team.
