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MSEM PROGRAM: FACULTY & STAFF
Samuel Liggero
Dr. Samuel H. Liggero, currently CTO and co-founder of AirPrint Networks, has spent over thirty years in the
Imaging Industry as an executive at Polaroid Corporation. Until November 2001, he was Corporate Vice President
of Research and Development for Polaroid's Instant Digital Printing division. Under Dr.
Liggero's direction,
Polaroid developed the groundbreaking digital printing technologies code-named Opal and Onyx.
These technologies delivered very high quality thermal prints from digital files at low cost and faster than
any other technology in the marketplace.
Dr. Liggero joined Polaroid in 1970 and has held leadership positions in research and development, manufacturing,
sales and marketing, training and education, and customer service. He is the co-inventor of
Polaroid's
35 mm Instant Slide System, the founding Director of Polaroid's Applications Group and the founding Director of
the Company's Customer Care Center. He also served as Corporate Vice President and Program Fellow for New Product
Development, Commercial Imaging.
Since leaving Polaroid, Dr. Liggero has started a consulting business, and also, with his partner co-founded
AirPrint Networks. This start-up company has been funded and is in mid-stage development. The initial product
is a system that will enable mobile phones to print images and information instantly and securely, anyplace, anytime.
Dr. Liggero also teaches Digital Photography at Adult Education Programs in Needham and
Wellesley. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Fordham University, a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry
from Georgetown University and was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
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