A deeply experienced and trusted leader in the global semiconductor industry, John’s career spans 3 decades in leading edge technology and business with the world’s largest and most innovative companies. With executive roles at Applied Materials, KLA-Tencor, Silicon Valley Group(acquired by ASML), Macquarie Bank, and others, John proven track record is one of building deep relationships and executing exciting new technologies with global leaders, such as Intel, Samsung, TSMC, SMIC,
Hynix, Western Digital, and many others. As President of specialty foundry TSI Semiconductors, John set up and drove a new technology development and commercialization to scale business model, working with and enabling tomorrow’s leaders, in the core semiconductor market and many high growth adjacent ones as well. John’s rich global experience has been highlighted by a commitment to delivering long-lasting competitive advantage, building bridges, and realizing great results through creative and insightful approaches that solve challenges, and capture opportunities. John’s vision is to conceptualize and deliver uniquely enabling solutions, that catalyze lasting advantage through innovation, quality, value, speed, and flexibility; and ramp them to volume through focus and the will to win. John embraces unique problems as exciting opportunities around which great achievements are crystallized. A selection of notable achievements include: driving the largest single order [$500M] at Applied Materials to that time; driving the largest operating lease in Taiwan at the time [$220M] with Macquarie Bank ,and receiving the DUV Lithography Challenge Award from Intel which resulted in multi-generation deployment of advanced lithography equipment into volume globally ~ all testaments to what is in John’s DNA and drives his mission.