BA-SID Professional Person Spotlight
Brian Berkeley
Brian Berkeley grew up in Dallas, Texas, USA. He received S.B. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from M.I.T. and Carnegie-Mellon University, respectively.
He had a 20-year career at Apple Inc., starting as display engineer on the first Macintosh. He put color on the Macintosh, led all Apple display development, and led hardware development for the first iMac computer.
In 2003, he took on a role as VP of Engineering at Samsung Display in South Korea. In his 8 years in Korea, he had major successes in LCD and OLED research and panel development.
In early 2012, he moved back to Silicon Valley to start up Samsung Display’s USA laboratory, which he led for three years.
Since 2015, he has been an industry consultant as Principal for Highlight Display, LLC. Mr. Berkeley has over 50 display industry publications.
He has been an SID member for over 30 years and has served on the SID Program Committee for over 25 years. He served as the SID Symposium Technical Program Chair (2000) and General Chair (2002), and served on the SID Executive Board for 10 years (2006-2016), including two years as SID’s President (2012-2014). He helped rebuild SID during a critical transition period. He was awarded SID Fellow in 2012 and has received six Presidential Citations for his service to SID. He currently remains active with SID on its Program Committee, the Display Industry Awards Committee, and as an Executive Committee member of SID’s International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM).