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Our Company

Cambridge Touch Technologies (CTT) was spun out from the University of Cambridge, the world leading engineering and research centre.

CTT is a high tech company at the
leading edge of touch technology.

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Locations around the World

CTT’s team of sales and support engineers are located close to our customers, ready to serve them any
time, and at a moment’s notice.

 

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Our Team

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Corbin Church

CEO and Co-founder

Corbin Church is an experienced executive with a nearly 20-year track record...

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Corbin Church is an experienced executive with a nearly 20-year track record of successfully building businesses, driving revenue and executing on the strategies of innovative technology companies and start-ups. As the CEO of CTT, he develops and leads the vision and direction of the company, while forming key customer and strategic partner relationships that drive growth. Having held previous leadership positions at high-growth tech companies such as Maintenance Assistant (now Fiix Software) as a co-founder, OLED backplane developer IGNIS Innovation, and as President of high-tech management consulting company, C2MCI Group, Corbin has built a strong network of industry contacts and raised tens of millions of dollars from angel, VC and government sources in North America, the UK and Asia. He’s presented at conferences around the world as an invited speaker and is a co-inventor on more than 15 patents and patents pending in both hardware (touch and displays) and software (enterprise SaaS). Corbin graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering.

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Andy Matthews

Chief Operating Officer

Andy Matthews is responsible for all aspects of CTT’s operations, development and...

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Andy Matthews is responsible for all aspects of CTT’s operations, development and growth, including interfacing with customers globally in supporting their adoption and commercialization of UltraTouch technology. He has over 25 years of commercialization experience in operations and new product introduction. Prior to CTT, he held CEO, COO and VP Engineering roles at other growth-stage and established technology companies, including Nanotherm, Amantys Ltd and Nortel. He has successfully brought new technologies to market, as well as secured significant strategic and venture capital investment. Andy holds a BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Middlesex University.

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Andrew Taylor

Chief Financial Officer

Andrew Taylor trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in...

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Andrew Taylor trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in London and is now a portfolio CFO based in Cambridge, UK where he has worked at main board level in a number of growth companies. Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in finance including CFO in main market listed Xaar PLC, in VC funded entities and in SME’s across a variety of industries including manufacturing, technology, software and biotech.

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Mike Astley

Technical Director

Mike Astley leads Cambridge Touch Technologies’ engineering teams, responsible for delivering customer...

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Mike Astley leads Cambridge Touch Technologies’ engineering teams, responsible for delivering customer solutions alongside foundational technology development. He has worked in industrial research and development for over ten years, with particular expertise in sensor materials and electronics. He has a degree and PhD in Physics and has co-authored several academic papers and over thirty patent applications.

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Nic Lawrence

Product Director

Nic Lawrence is head of product at CTT, responsible for managing the...

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Nic Lawrence is head of product at CTT, responsible for managing the company's product roadmap and product development strategy. He has a particular focus on CTT's digital strategy, leveraging the ability to deliver ongoing feature enhancements and customer value via software updates to a common, low-cost hardware platform. Prior to CTT, Nic was the founding CEO of both Light Blue Optics and Kaptivo (acquired by Lifesize in 2020) and has 20 years experience of company building and of developing and commercialising innovative products in the field of human-machine interfaces (HMI).

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Gerd Unterassinger

European Sales Director

Gerd is responsible for our customers in the European region and offers...

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Gerd is responsible for our customers in the European region and offers solid national and international experience involving development of direct and channel sales. He has over 25 years’ experience building direct sales organizations, system partner sales and business development of national and international sales forces. Former CEO of an international IBM compatible Hardware and Software Company, where he was responsible for multi billion US $ also for closing 30 billion US $ deal for a software development Company within over 100 software developers. Gerd has a business management and master degree from University of St.Gallen.

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Giles Humpston

Applications Engineer

Giles Humpston supports our Europe and North America customers in their successful...

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Giles Humpston supports our Europe and North America customers in their successful adoption of UltraTouch into their end products.   He has spent his career working in the semiconductor industry transforming new technologies into commercial products. This has spanned multiple sectors and technologies ranging from military hardware to mobile phones and encompassing electronics, photonics, optics and MEMS. He is a cited inventor on 263 patent applications, author of 152 publications, speaker at 51 conferences, recipient of four international awards and co-author of four text books on soldering and brazing.  A metallurgist by profession, he holds a Ph.D. in alloy phase equilibria.

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Howard Wu

China Sales Manager

Howard Wu covers our China business development and helps drive our business...

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Howard Wu covers our China business development and helps drive our business projects in the region forward. He has over 10 years of experience in the sales of consumer electronics and digital products. He holds a finance master’s degree from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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DeAn Chang

Taiwan Sales Manager

DeAn Chang oversees CTT's sales and business development in Taiwan and manages...

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DeAn Chang oversees CTT's sales and business development in Taiwan and manages all customer and partner relationships. With over 20 years of experience in the display and semiconductor fields, he has a strong network in the industry and is passionate about bringing new technology to market. DeAn received his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the National ChiaoTung University, Taiwan.

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Jun Koishikawa

Sales and Marketing Manager, Japan

Jun Koishikawa takes care of CTT's business development in Japan and has...

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Jun Koishikawa takes care of CTT's business development in Japan and has over 30 years of experience in Marketing and New Business Development in areas -  Display & Electronics, Automotive and Architecture. Jun holds the National License of the Registered Management Consultants, certified in Japan.

Board of Directors

Howard brings over 30 years’ experience in technology companies operating from the US, UK and France. He is currently Chairman of Datapath Ltd and was previously Chairman of Pyreos Ltd, Displaydata Ltd, Light Blue Optics Ltd, Cambridge Semiconductor Ltd, Filtronic plc and Varioptic.

Before founding Parkwalk in 2009, Moray Wright spent over 20 years working in equity capital markets for Hoare Govett, JP Morgan, Lazard and Mirabaud. He has helped advise companies on acquisitions, fund-raising, restructuring and strategy. Moray managed the trading activities at Lazard Capital Markets and has a wealth of experience with corporate and institutional clients. Moray sits on various Parkwalk portfolio company Boards, and is responsible for raising Parkwalk funds.

Naomitsu Nishihata is a senior vice president at Kureha Corporation, Japan and President & CEO at Kureha America Inc. based in Houston, TX, USA. He has over 30 years experience in R&D, new business development and sales & marketing of advanced materials, including responsibility as a general manager and he has a varied network in automotive, semi-conductors, oil and gas, and healthcare industries.

Andrew brings over 35 years’ technology products & services experience based in 3 continents. He is currently non-executive chairman of Quix Quantum bv, a quantum computing business. Previous NED/NEC roles include SatSense (Satellite data; co-founder & chairman) and Circle (NED).  He has 15+ years’ general management record including in electronics Pyreos (exit to Broadcom), Tunstall (Healthcare) and telecoms (Eutelsat SA, C&W plc).  Senior commercial roles up to £1Bn include Pace plc & Tunstall (both electronics) and Eutelsat SA.

Richard is Foresight's Managing Director based in London office. Prior to Foresight, Richard worked at Downing as a Partner. Richard holds a BA class degree in Economics and Politics from Durham University and an MBA from Manchester Business School.

Our Investors

CTT is backed by leading multinational Corporate and VC investors