Since 2015, Paul Boudre has been chief executive officer and board member of Soitec, a world leader in designing and manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials. He joined the company in 2007 as executive vice president of sales, marketing and business development, focusing on new market opportunities and building the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) ecosystem to enable SOI adoption for consumer and “More Than Moore” applications.
Besides leading Soitec, Paul Boudre serves on the boards of directors for FOGALE nanotech, a leader in advanced metrology solutions; Exagan, a producer of gallium-nitride power switches; AENEAS, the Association for European NanoElectronics Activities; and the SOI Industry Consortium, an international organization that he played a role in launching in 2007 to promote understanding, development and adoption of SOI-based technologies. He also is a member of the European Advisory Board of SEMI, the global industry association serving the electronics manufacturing supply chain.
During his more than three decades in the global semiconductor industry, Paul Boudre spent nearly 10 years at KLA-Tencor, one of the world’s top five semiconductor equipment manufacturers. He first managed the company’s European operations and subsequently was named executive vice president for both the U.S. and Europe. In addition, he has managed industrial operations for IBM Semiconductor, now part of GlobalFoundries; STMicroelectronics; Motorola Semiconductor, now part of NXP Semiconductors; and Atmel.
He holds a graduate degree in chemistry from France’s Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Toulouse.