Supply Assurance During Times of Shortages – SEMI CSP Back to Work

Biography: As Business Director in Supply Chain, Darryl helped Lam Research’s found CapOneSource (later named GPS), an Semi industry trade group supporting the business needs of the capital equipment suppliers. Darryl held various Sales, Marketing, and Supply chain roles at both Applied Materials and Lam Research before moving to SEMI in 2013. Darryl held executive Sales and Marketing roles in the aerospace industry after receiving his MBA from Cal Berkley and double DB from Carnegie Mellon.

Biography: Kareem Dossa cultivated his expertise in leadership, sales, business development, and general management through 20 years of professional experience in start-ups and Fortune 500 distribution, product, technology and service companies in life science, clinical trials, healthcare markets, cleanroom, and industrial markets. Kareem has held Senior VP positions at BioCision, VWR International and Merch KGaA and has an MBA from Pepperdine and a BS from Washington State.

Biography: John Westland brings 37 years of industry experience in the distribution and sales of cleanroom and static safe assembly products and supplies experience to Thomas Scientific CE Cleanroom Solutions.

John started as a technical field salesrep for American Scientific Products and Baxter Scientific Products in the 1980’s. In 1988 John was the founder and President of Eastwater Scientific Products which was a cleanroom and static control supplies distributor which was acquired by Cintas Cleanroom Resources in 1998. In 2000 he started a Microstat Labs, a cleanroom products and materials test lab John was also the founder and President of American Cleanstat from 2003 through 2018 until it was acquired by the Carlyle Private Equity Group in 2018. American Cleanstat was coupled together with Thomas Scientific and now represents the new CE Cleanroom Solutions Division of Thomas Scientific. John is the current director of CE Technology for Thomas Scientific CE Cleanroom Solutions Division.

John has also been a contributing member of the Safety Marketing Group of North America for PPE products and has been a participating past member of the IEST. John holds a BS in Business Administration - Finance Degree from the University of Southern California and is married to Shannon Needham. He has two sons, Jack 28 and Nick Westland 24, a professional free-ride skier and a stepson, Nikolas Needham who is an NFL football player playing defensive back with the Miami Dolphins.