Prysm CTO Presenting at the Needham Growth Conference This Week

SAN JOSE, CA, Jan 15, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Prysm Inc., a video display provider offering brilliant life-like and life-size displays for truly immersive experiences, today announced its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Roger Hajjar will present at the 15th Annual Needham Growth Conference at 3:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. The conference will be held at The New York Palace in New York City.

The Needham Growth Conference (NGC) is an invitation-only conference offering institutional investors, private equity firms and venture capitalists exclusive access to 350 growth companies from a broad range of industries including: Clean Technology, Communications, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure, Healthcare, Internet & Digital Media, Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment and Software & Services sectors. The three-day conference features public and private company presentations, Q&A sessions, and one-on-one meetings for institutional investors and venture capital firms.

About the Speaker Since 2005, Dr. Hajjar has pioneered Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology, working with multidisciplinary technologists and business people in the U.S. and around the globe.

Dr. Hajjar has registered more than 40 U.S. and worldwide patents and has a proven record of success in taking optical-based technologies from inception to high-volume manufacturing. Prior to Prysm, Dr.

Hajjar served as Vice President/GM of Transmission Subsystems with Avanex Corporation and Vice President of Technology with Vitesse Semiconductor. Dr. Hajjar was Chief Technology Officer and founder of Versatile Optical Networks prior to its acquisition by Vitesse, and later Avanex. Dr. Hajjar held management positions with TeraStor Corporation and the Eastman Kodak Company. He also held research positions at the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.

For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.needhamco.com/Default/InstitutionalSalesAndTrading/Conferences.aspx.

About Prysm Inc.

Prysm Inc. is a video display provider that offers brilliant life-like and life-size displays for truly immersive experiences. The company invented a new large format commercial display platform based on its proprietary Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology. Traditional technologies such as projection, PDP/plasma, LCD, and LED cannot compare to LPD's brilliant uniform picture quality delivered in any shape, size and viewing angle.

Prysm's LPD video display solutions meet the highest environmental standards, using much less power than legacy technologies. Leading brands in retail, financial services, technology, and media, as well as government organizations, use Prysm displays to form deep connections with customers, communicate with their remote employees, boost their brands, and generally 'wow' their audience.

Prysm is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley, California with a growing global sales and support network designed to meet the demanding requirements of our worldwide enterprise customers.

Media Contact Scott Lechner Kulesa Faul for Prysm, Inc.

Email Contact 650-340-1987 Lisa Garvey Senior Director, Corporate Communications at Prysm, Inc.

Email Contact 408-586-1142 SOURCE: Prysm, Inc.

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