Sutherland Ellwood founded Photonica, Incorporated in August 2007, after over two decades of innovation and commercial experience in visual media technologies as an inventor, executive and entrepreneur. Photonica was formed to embark on a new generation of groundbreaking inventions in the field of displays and “intelligent visual media systems.”
Photonica has assembled a talented executive management team, each of whom has a successful record in the start-up and growth of high technology products and services and entertainment industry experience.
Sutherland C. Ellwood Jr., Chairman and Founding Inventor, is a 22-year veteran of the media technologies industries where he has led several historic developments as a senior technology and production executive and as a business founder. Prior to founding Photonica, Inc., Mr. Ellwood was the founder and CEO of Panorama Labs, a principal and co-founder of FilmWarp LLC, and served as an executive at DreamWorks SKG, The Walt Disney Company, and 20th Century Fox. He received a B.S. in Organization Management and in Economics from The Wharton School in 1985, and began studying college physics at the age of 15, continuing through University.
