People on the Move : Pelican Imaging Names New President/CEO and VP of Engineering
Chris Pickett Appointed President and CEO; Purnam Sheth Hired as Vice President of Engineering.
September 11, 2012“Pelican Imaging is poised for explosive growth. The company’s technical expertise, coupled with experience that both Chris and Purnam bring to the table, position Pelican to launch a new era in the way people interact with the images and video they capture,” said Barry Schiffman, executive managing director at Globespan Capital Partners and a member of Pelican’s board of directors. “Pelican has ambitious plans under way on several fronts. These additions to its leadership team prepare the company for establishing new partnerships and channels that can broaden adoption of its technology.”
As president and CEO, Pickett will lead Pelican’s global operations, scale the company for planned growth and serve on its board of directors. With more than 20 years of experience building and expanding profitable ventures from infancy to IPO, Pickett has helped create financial success for companies developing technologies such as semiconductor packaging, camera modules, LCD displays, general lighting, cryptography and memory systems.
Most recently, Pickett was the senior vice president of corporate licensing for Rambus, which he joined as part of the acquisition of Global Lighting Technologies, where he was president of the licensing division. Before joining Global Lighting Technologies, he was executive vice president of licensing at Tessera Technologies, bringing the company from a start-up phase to a successful mid-cap public company. During Pickett’s 13-year tenure, Tessera achieved compound revenue and operating profit growth exceeding 50%.
“I’m excited to lead Pelican Imaging—a company well positioned for leadership in its market and that exhibits great potential for future growth,” said Pickett. “Pelican’s technology is receiving incredible response from a variety of consumer platforms that utilize cameras. It is clearly a game changer for a variety of camera markets and promises a much thinner module solution, as well as better low-light performance, which will help to make phones and tablets even thinner, more advanced and able to offer the user a host of post capture editing functions that are difficult or impossible with current camera technology.”
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