Mark B. Spitzer

Independent Director; Dr.; Spitzer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.; Beginning in 2012, Dr. Spitzer served as the Director of Operations for Project Glass at Google X (now X Development LLC), moving; to the virtual reality team at Google in 2015 and retiring from Google in 2017. Prior to Google, Dr. Spitzer founded The MicroOptical; Corporation (eventually renamed Myvu Corporation) in 1996, where he served as Chief Executive Officer. In the early 1990s, Dr. Spitzer; served as Principal Scientist at Kopin Corporation. In 2014, Dr. Spitzer received the Special Recognition Award from the Society; for Information Display for contributions to the development of active-matrix liquid-crystal microdisplays, microdisplay viewing; optics, and wearable computer technology. He has 70 patents in the fields of photovoltaics, micro-displays, micro-electromechanical; systems (MEMS), optics, augmented reality and virtual reality. Dr. Spitzer received a B.A. with distinction in physics at Boston; University and a Ph.D. in physics at Brown University.