Andy Wood has held CEO positions for 20 years, and has an extensive background in enabling companies in complex and emerging markets to reach their potential. Wood previously served as CEO of PhotoWorks Inc., a then public company, where he shaped a new strategy, streamlined operations, sharply focused company business metrics and led the company to an acquisition by American Greetings in 2008.

Prior to PhotoWorks Inc., Wood served as CEO of SkyBitz, a privately-held satellite tracking technology and service business. In both assignments, he gained additional financing, expanded strategic partners and strengthened the companies’ overall organizational capabilities. Wood also served as CEO of then privately-held Shutterfly, the leading online social expression and photo product business, where he drove the company to exceed growth and profitability plans. Previously, he established the North American business unit for Exel Logistics, where revenues grew to $500 million within four years.

Darryl Singh is Vice President, Software and Content Development for PureDepth. He leads a multi-disciplinary team responsible for state-of-the-art visual capabilities and user experience for PureDepth’s Multi-Layer Display (MLD™) platform, including content creation, user interface design, imaging processing and software engineering. Singh has been instrumental in establishing PureDepth’s software technology position while also developing emerging commercial strategies and aligning them to tangible business opportunities.

Singh joined PureDepth in 2005 and has since built a world-class team of technology experts. He has worked extensively with customers in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. Singh has also provided consultancy services to nearly all major third-party software and content developers of MLD technology including IGT, Abilit and other game developers.

Prior to joining PureDepth, Singh worked at Datacom, New Zealand’s largest software and integration company, where he held positions in software development and project management, and served in client-interfacing roles with accounts including Zespri International, ASB Bank and Tenon USA.

Singh holds a Bachelor of Engineering in software engineering with first class honors from the University of Auckland and has published academic papers in the field of Human Computer Interaction.

A 40-year veteran of the electronics industry, Yutaka Nagata is charged with spearheading PureDepth’s expansion in the Japanese market, assisting new and existing customers in maximizing their use of PureDepth’s cutting-edge technology, and ensuring new product enhancements from PureDepth are available to the growing 3-D and visual display market spaces.

Prior to joining PureDepth, Nagata served as Japan Country Manager for U.S. company 3M Touch Systems. During his tenure at the company, Nagata was instrumental in obtaining major OEM accounts, including Sharp, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, IBM, and Hitachi.

Nagata was previously president of MicroTouch Systems Japan, which was acquired by 3M in 2001. As president of Cognex Japan (1990-1994), Nagata established the company’s Japan office, expanded its market share and tripled the size of the business.

Michael Laycock joined PureDepth as Corporate Controller in February 2009, transitioning the accounting function from California to Auckland, New Zealand. Laycock previously worked as a senior systems development consultant for finance at the PMI Group, Inc., California. Prior to that he served 19 years at United Commercial Bank in San Francisco in management positions that included: the day to day management of the accounting and reporting areas (during a period when the company doubled in size from $3 to $6 billion), SVP & Director of Operations & Systems and SVP & Chief Auditor. Laycock has a solid foundation in public accounting, working in both Auckland and London.

As Vice President, Engineering for PureDepth since 2005, Grant Gatland is responsible for overseeing the development processes for Multi-Layer Display (MLD™) products for the company’s technology licensees. In his position, Gatland continually refines back-light technologies utilized in MLD products and oversees the manufacturing of PureDepth’s patented interstitial diffuser component, which removes optical interference between multiple LCD screens and allows viewers to see real depth.

Prior to joining PureDepth, Gatland worked with Belfor to launch high-technology disaster restoration companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Bangkok, Thailand, where he successfully established operations and set the companies on course for long term success. While working in Thailand, Gatland was called on to lead a major disaster restoration project in a semi-conductor wafer fabrication plant located in Temecula, California. Because of the success of that project, Gatland was asked to transfer to the U.S in 2001 to establish and lead high-technology disaster restoration operations throughout the country.

From 1993-1996, Gatland managed two sheet-metal manufacturing companies, and prior to that, he spent eleven years at Fisher & Paykel Limited, where he was responsible for all automation and control systems for a number of production systems and new manufacturing lines. He was also heavily involved in plastic mold design, sheet metal press design and other specialist equipment (robotics, coil winding, magnetizing, etc), and was responsible for bringing these functions together in seamless computer-controlled automated production lines.

Gatland completed a New Zealand Certificate in Engineering (NZCE) in Electrical, Electronics and Control Systems in 1982.