• Heinz Kundert, President, SEMI Europe
• Jim OHara, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group, General Manager Ireland Operations, and Fab 10/14 Plant Manager, Intel
• Georges Auguste, Executive Vice President, Director of Quality, Education and Sustainable Development, STMicroelectronics
• Hasan Alkas, Principal Economist, European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, ICT for Competitiveness and Innovation
• Arunjai Mittal, Division President Industrial & Multimarket, Infineon
• Lars Reger, VP Strategy & Business Development, NXP
• Roger Whatmore, CEO, Tyndall National Institute
• Denis Doyle, ADI fellow and Director of Wafer Fab Engineering, Limerick Plant, Analog Devices
• Lutz Jäde, Partner, Oliver Wyman
• Sami Issa, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Asset Build, Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC)
• John Boland, CRANN research centre, Trinity College Dublin
• Paolo Gargini, Intel fellow and group director, Technology & Manufacturing, Intel
• Martin van den Brink, Executive VP and Chief Product & Technology Officer, ASML
• André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, CEO, Soitec
• Rudi Cartuyvels, VP and General Manager Process Technology, IMEC
• Thomas Geelhaar, CTO Chemicals, Senior VP Advanced Technologies - Innovation Management, Merck
• Bill McClean, President, IC Insights
• Malcolm Penn, President and CEO, Future Horizons

Heinz Kundert, President SEMI Europe

Heinz Kundert was named president of SEMI Europe in October 2005. His responsibility includes overall guidance of the SEMI activities and membership outreach all over Europe and the CIS countries and he belongs to the Global Executive Team of SEMI International.

Kundert has been within the semiconductor industry for 23 years when he joined Balzers in Liechtenstein, a global supplier of thin film equipment. In total he lived more than five years in Asia before he became COO of the newly formed company Unaxis that was a merger between Balzers and Leybold. From 2002 Kundert was named CEO of Unaxis.

Kundert has a degree in mechanical engineering and business administration with a federal diploma from the FAH/University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Jim OHara, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group, General Manager Ireland Operations, and Fab 10/14 Plant Manager Intel Corporation

James R. OHara is vice president of the Technology Manufacturing Group for Intel Corporation. He is also general manger of Intel Ireland and plant manager of Ireland Fab Operations.

OHara joined Intel in 1991 as part of the Fab 10 start up team. He became plant manager for Fab 10 in 1996 and subsequently managed both Fab 10 and Fab 14, now known as Ireland Fab Operations. In April 2002, OHara became Intel Ireland general manager and is responsible for Intel's manufacturing operations in Ireland and for the site's strategic direction, management leadership and development, and government and community relations.

For 17 years prior to joining Intel, OHara worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, the last five of which he was based in their corporate headquarters in Massachusetts.

OHara is a member of both the management and governing boards for ICT Ireland. He is also on the board of the Smurfit Graduate School of Business at University College Dublin and the Institute Board of CRANN (Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices) at Trinity College Dublin. Additionally, he is a member of the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and is on the board of Business in the Community Ireland.

OHara was conferred with an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the National University of Ireland.

Georges Auguste, Executive Vice President, Director of Quality, Education and Sustainable Development STMicroelectronics

Georges Auguste is Director of Quality, Education and Sustainable Development at STMicroelectronics and has held this position since January 2008. He is a member of ST’s Corporate Executive Committee and also has responsibility for STMicroelectronics University.

Auguste started his career in semiconductors with Philips as a technical manager. He joined Thomson Semiconducteurs, a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics, in 1986, and two years later was appointed General Manager of the manufacturing facility in Nancy, France. From 1990, Auguste served as Managing Director of the Company’s operations in Morocco. In 1997, he was appointed Director of the Total Quality and Environment Group, and, in 1999, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President, responsible for implementing ST’s goals to reduce consumption of natural resources and further improve quality. In 2005, Auguste’s mission was enlarged to encompass social, ethical and environmental aspects of the Company’s corporate responsibility strategy.

Georges Auguste was born in Oran, Algeria, in 1949. He graduated with an engineering degree from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité in Paris and holds the diploma of the "Institut d'Administration des Entreprises" (Institute of Business Administration).

Hasan Alkas, Principal Economist, European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, ICT for Competitiveness and Innovation

Mr. Alkas is a pecialist in regulatory and industrial economics, pricing, merger and state aid, energy-, environment- and industrial policies. Currently he is Principal Economist at the European Commission, with focus on Competitiveness and Innovation Aspects of ICT, Quantitative Economics, Energy- and Industrial Policy. From 2001-2006 he was Deputy of the Executive Vice President at Deutsche Telekom, responsible for Regulatory Economics, Strategy and Pricing. In 2000 he was part-time Advisor to the Minister for Transport in Turkey, consulting on strategic topics and drafting laws and ordinances for the ICT, Telecoms and Postal sector, in Ankara.

Mr. Alkas holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Cologne and has contributed to several international publications on pricing, regulatory economics, industrial policy and investment theory.

Arunjai Mittal, Division President Industrial & Multimarket Infineon

Mr. Mittal has more than 15 years of experience in the electronics industry, beginning in engineering and marketing and progressing into business development, operations and senior management positions.

Under his leadership, the power management activities have grown by five-fold at Infineon, with sustained profitability even through the difficult semiconductor industry years, post 2000 and since 2003, Infineon successfully holds the position no 1 in the field of power semiconductors.

Mr. Mittal holds a bachelors degree in electronics engineering from the Walchand Institute of Technology, India. He has also participated in Management Programs at INSEAD & Harvard Business School since then.

Lars Reger, VP Strategy & Business Development NXP

Lars Reger is Business Development Manager for the Business Unit Automotive & Identification at NXP, the newly independent semiconductors company founded by Philips. Lars is responsible for managing NXP’s portfolio of automotive products, developing new business opportunities and defining NXP’s automotive strategy. He joined NXP in February 2008.

In various functions with Siemens, Infineon, Siemens VDO, Continental and NXP, Lars has gained a deep insight into the microelectronics industry, focusing especially on the automotive sector. He began his career with Siemens Semiconductors in 1997, as Product Engineer within the 6’’-Factory-Cluster. With Infineon he worked amongst others as head of process-/ product engineering departments, project manager for mobile systems chips and Director for IP Management. Before joining NXP, Lars was Director for Business Development and Product Management within the Continental Business Unit Connectivity.

Lars holds a university degree in physics from Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn and an executive MBA from the London Business School.

Prof. Roger Whatmore, CEO Tyndall National Institute

Roger Whatmore graduated with his PhD from Cambridge University in 1977 and spent eighteen years working with the GEC Marconi (formerly Plessey) research laboratories at Caswell in the UK on the development and exploitation of ferroelectric materials in a wide range of electronic devices, particularly pyroelectric infra red materials and detectors, and piezoelectric sensors and actuators. He was awarded GEC’s Nelson Gold Medal for this work in 1993. He also led the team which won the Prince of Wales’ Award for Innovation in that year. In October 1994 he took the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Engineering Nanotechnology at Cranfield University, where he built a team researching the use of ferroelectrics in microsystems and nanotechnology, becoming Head of Advanced Materials there. During this time he helped form the company IRISYS Ltd, working in the field of commercial infra-red sensing. He served as non-executive director of this company from 1996 to 2006. In Jan 2006, he took the position of CEO of Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. In 2003 the IoM³ awarded him the Griffith Medal and Prize for distinguished work in materials science. He has published over 250 papers (h-index=33) and 40 patents in the field of ferroelectric materials and their applications.

Denis Doyle, ADI fellow and Director of Wafer Fab Engineering, Limerick Plant Analog Devices

Denis Doyle received his Electrical Engineering degree (B.E. (Elect)), from University College Cork, Ireland in 1985, followed by an MEngSc degree and a Doctorate in Microelectronics (PhD) from the National University of Ireland for his work on bipolar devices at the National Microelectronic Research Centre.

He joined the process development group in Analog Devices, Limerick in 1991. He has been responsible for the development of several generations of the company’s proprietary wafer fabrication technologies in the areas of BiCMOS, non-volatile memory and high voltage linear platforms (iCMOS^TM). He was made a Fellow of Analog Devices in 2001.

Denis is currently the Director of Wafer Fab and Probe Engineering at ADI’s Limerick, Ireland site.

Lutz Jäde, Partner Oliver Wyman

Lutz Jaede is a Partner with Oliver Wyman in Munich. He is a specialist in high tech and semiconductor industries and his experience covers a wide range of topics such as strategy, performance improvement, restructuring, and organization.

Some of his key projects in these industries include:

• Corporate strategy implementation program management for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Development of a China strategy based on long term market scenarios for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Global manufacturing strategy incl. location and partner evaluation for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Restructuring of the European sales organization for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Post merger integration and process redesign for a high tech company
• Operational improvement of a business division for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Strategy development and business system redesign for a semiconductor development service provider
• Cost cutting for administrative functions for a high tech company
• Logistics optimization and network management for a semiconductor manufacturer
• HR outsourcing evaluation and process advisory for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Re-organization and adaptation of business processes for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Process framework and process oriented performance measurement for a semiconductor manufacturer
• Redesign of the corporate target setting, and financial planning process for a semiconductor manufacturer

Before his career with Oliver Wyman he worked as a Senior Manager in the high tech industries group of Deloitte Consulting. Before that, he was as a senior project manager in the Engineered Products / High Tech competence center of Roland Berger – Strategy Consultants.

Prior to his consulting career, Lutz served as a research associate at the University of Hamburg and the DESY institute for particle physics. He holds a diploma and a Ph.D. in physics.

Sami Issa, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Asset Build, Advanced Technology Investment Company

Sami Issa is Executive Director of the Abu Dhabi Ecosystem Development division of ATIC, the Advanced Technology Investment Company. Sami is a veteran of the semiconductor industry where he has held diverse leadership positions with industry leaders such as Intel Corporation, Texas Instruments, and Broadcom Corporation. Prior to joining ATIC, he was a director at Intel Corporation and elected top 1% of Intel's technical community, where he played an instrumental role in the vision, strategy and development of Intel's x86 based ultra mobile product line and Intel's ARM based Xscale product line. While at Intel, he co-founded Intel's power management business unit and worked closely with Intel capital on multitude of investments focused on power management.

As an entrepreneur, Sami founded a series of small businesses in the Middle East focused on consumer electronics devices and associated services.

Sami holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and has over 50 US patents. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, General Manager Program, and is co-founder and vice president of the Harvard Business School Club of the UAE.

Prof John Boland from the CRANN research centre Trinity College Dublin

Prof John Boland received a BSc degree in chemistry from University College Dublin and a PhD in chemical physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he was an IBM graduate fellow and recipient of the Newby-McKoy graduate research award. From 1984 to 1994 Prof Boland was a member of the research staff at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (New York). In 1994 he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was appointed the J.J. Hermans Chair Professor of Chemistry and Applied and Materials Science. In 2002 Prof Boland moved to the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin as a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator. In 2004 he was appointed Director of the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN).

He was elected Fellow, Trinity College Dublin in 2008 and elected Fellow of the AVS in 2009.

Paolo Gargini, Intel fellow and group director, Technology & Manufacturing Intel

Dr. Paolo Gargini is the Director of Technology Strategy for Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California. Dr. Gargini is also responsible for world-wide research activities conducted outside Intel for the Technology and Manufacturing Group by consortia, institutes and universities.

Dr. Gargini was born in Florence, Italy and received a doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a doctorate in Physics in 1975 from the Universita di Bologna, Italy, both with full honor and marks.

He has done research at LAMEL in Bologna, Stanford Electronics Laboratory, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument Research and Development in Palo Alto from 1970 to 1977. Since joining Intel in 1978,

Dr. Gargini has conducted studies on Process Reliability; he was responsible for developing the building blocks of HMOS III and CHMOS III technologies used in the 1980’s for the 80286 and the 80386 processors. In 1985 he headed the first submicron process development team at Intel.

Dr. Gargini has been the Chairman of the Executive Steering Council (ESC) of I300I and, subsequently, of International Sematech from 1996 to 2000. He is now a member of the Sematech Board. Since 1998, Dr. Gargini has been the Chairman of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).

He is a member of various technical committees and technical advisory boards for organizations such as the Silicon Research Corporation (SRC), and the Technology Strategic Council (TSC) of the SIA in the US, IMEC in Europe, ASET and MIRAI in Japan.

He also heads the International EUV Initiative (IEUVI), formed in 2001, that fosters cooperation and coordination among the largest EUV consortia in the world.

Dr. Gargini is the facilitator of the International Consortia Cooperation Initiative (ICCI). This initiative, started in 2000, fosters exchange of information among a selected group of leading consortia and institutes in the world.

In September 2003, Dr. Gargini was included by EE Times in a very selected group of Influencers of the semiconductor industry with the following motivation: “EE Times has chosen 13 people who are influencing the course of semiconductor development technology and taking it into realms that exceed the bounds set by the inventors of the transistor more than 50 years ago. With more than 25 years in the industry, Gargini is helping to navigate tough process and manufacturing waters.”

Dr. Gargini initiated and became the first Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nano Electronics Research Initiative (NERC) funded in June 2005 by SIA. This Initiative is aimed at supporting and focusing research in universities towards subsequent commercialization of Nanoelectronics. NERC actively cooperates in this effort with USG organizations such as NNI, NSF, DARPA, and NIST.

Martin van den Brink, Executive VP and Chief Product & Technology Officer ASML

Martin van den Brink joined ASML when the company was founded in early 1984. He held several positions in engineering and, since 1995, Mr. Van den Brink served as Vice President Technology. In 1999 Mr. Van den Brink was appointed as Executive Vice President Marketing & Technology and as a member of ASML's Board of Management.

Mr. Van den Brink has earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from HTS Arnhem (HAN University), and a degree in Physics (1984) from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, CEO Soitec

Dr. André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé co-founded Soitec with Jean-Michel Lamure in 1992. As President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Auberton-Hervé is responsible for overseeing the strategic, operational and financial activities of the company.

Prior to founding Soitec, Auberton-Hervé managed several joint development programs between Leti and Thomson-CSF, which focused on the technological transfer from R&D to production applications. These programs included the transfer of 1.2 µm and 0.8 µm SOI CMOS for space applications. He was also in charge of several projects, which applied SOI to 3D integration, VLSI and ULSI.

In July of 2005, Auberton-Hervé was elected to serve as the European representative to SEMI’s International Board of Directors. His demonstrated vision, experience and leadership capabilities within the industry contributed to his appointment to the board. Auberton-Hervé is also the recipient of the 1999 European SEMI Award in recognition of his work on Smart Cut™ technology and his overall contributions to the semiconductor industry as a whole. Auberton-Hervé is a member of the Electrochemical Society and the IEEE.

Auberton-Hervé holds a doctorate degree in semiconductor physics and a master’s degree in materials science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France).

Rudi Cartuyvels, VP and General Manager Process Technology IMEC

Rudi Cartuyvels graduated with a MS EE degree from the K.U.Leuven in 1990 and started his career at IMEC in the same year. He has worked on computer experiment modeling for design and optimization of CMOS technology using TCAD-based simulation tools and was responsible for transferring IMEC’s computer experiment modeling and optimization techniques to a commercial platform in the field of vibro-acoustic engineering.

In 1998, he was appointed business development manager for IMEC’s semiconductor process technology division. In 2001, he became director of IMEC’s interconnect technology department responsible for Cu and low-k technology scaling. Packaging and system integration were added to his responsibilities in 2007. Since 2009, he is vice president and general manager of Process Technology. Rudi Cartuyvels is a member of the IITC Program Committee.

Thomas Geelhaar, CTO Chemicals, Senior VP Advanced Technologies - Innovation Management Merck

Dr. Thomas Geelhaar started his study in chemistry at the University in Mainz in 1975 and finished 1983 with a PhD degree in Physical Chemistry.

He joined Merck in 1984 as a Head of a Liquid Crystal Research & Development Laboratory and continued as R&D and M&S General Manager in the Liquid Crystal Division. From 2000 until 2002 he stayed in Japan as Division Manager of the Liquid Crystal division for Merck.

From 2003 to 2007 he was in charge as Vice President Liquid Crystals R&D and New Technologies Chemicals. Since 2008 he is Chief Technology Officer Chemicals and Senior Vice President Advanced Technologies – Innovation Management.

Bill McClean, President IC Insights

Mr. McClean began his market research career in the integrated circuit industry in 1980 and founded IC Insights in 1997. During his 29 years of tracking the IC industry, Mr. McClean has specialized in market and technology trend forecasting and was responsible for developing the IC industry cycle model. At IC Insights, he serves as managing editor of the company’s market research studies and reports. In addition, he instructs for IC Insights’ seminars and has been a guest speaker at many important annual conferences held worldwide (e.g., SEMI’s ISS and Electronic Materials Conferences, The China Electronics Conference, and The European Microelectronics Summit). Mr. McClean received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and an Associate degree in Aviation from the University of Illinois.

Malcolm Penn, President and CEO Future Horizons

Malcolm Penn is the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Future Horizons, Europe's leading semiconductor industry analyst. He is also the President of Future Horizons' Moscow-based subsidiary firm, East-West Electronics, the world’s top market research consultant on the Russian and East European electronics industry.

Established in April 1989, Future Horizons provides business support services for use in opportunity analysis, business planning and new market development in the semiconductor and related industries. Its areas of activity include market research reports, custom consulting, industry forums and seminars, IC and system design evaluation services, and industry training.

Mr. Penn has over 45 years experience in the electronics industry and for most of that time has worked extensively throughout Europe as well as in the United States, the former USSR, Japan and Korea. Future Horizons was also a member of the 1994 European Commission sponsored Cornu Panel of senior industry executives responsible for publishing the “Report of the European Microelectronics Panel” used to help formulate the strategy for EC microelectronics support in Europe.

Prior to establishing Future Horizons, Mr Penn was Vice President of Dataquest and Director of Dataquest's European Operations, responsible for establishing all Dataquest's European-based research operations. Previously he was Manager of Component Engineering for ITT Europe (now Alcatel) and prior to that held various operations and marketing management positions with the worldwide ITT Semiconductor group.