Warren Weeks is the Vice President & General Manager of the Wolfspeed Materials business unit at Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE). Wolfspeed Materials is a market-leading supplier to the semiconductor industry accelerating the transition from silicon to silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) for power electronics and RF/wireless applications. Prior to joining Cree, Warren worked at Hubbell Lighting in several leadership roles driving their conversion from legacy lighting sources to LEDs. During his six-year tenure, solid-state lighting (SSL) adoption increased from approximately 15% to 75%, and SSL revenues grew by 600%.
Prior to joining Hubbell, Warren was the President of the Compound Group, a business and technology advisory firm. His functional expertise in business development, strategy and operations is coupled with his technology entrepreneurship in wide bandgap semiconductors (GaN and SiC). Warren co-founded Nitronex Corporation, a high-tech company which developed GaN-on-silicon for RF-based HEMTs and LEDs, which was acquired by M/A-COM in 2014. He also served on the executive team at INTRINSIC Semiconductor and headed the acquisition of Bandgap Technologies and their zero-micropipe density (ZMP) SiC wafer technology. INTRINSIC was later acquired by Cree in 2006. Warren began his career at Cree in 1995 developing SiC epitaxy and state-of-the-art blue and green GaN LEDs on SiC.
Warren holds a BS degree in Ceramic Engineering from Clemson University and a MS degree from NC State in Materials Science & Engineering. He is a co-inventor on 29 US patents and dozens of internationally issued patents, pending patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He has co-authored numerous scientific, peer-reviewed articles related to compound semiconductors. He has served as a technical reviewer to the US DOE for its SSL initiatives and is considered an expert in GaN and SiC materials based on over 27 years of experience in the industry.