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Confirmed Presenters
Jerry Coder is president emeritus of the Semiconductor Materials Business unit of DuPont Electronic Technologies. Coder has also served as president and chief operating officer of EKC Technology; as vice president, Sales and Marketing, for KTI Chemicals, a subsidiary of Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics; and in various sales, marketing, and business management positions for Eastman Kodak Company.
Coder received a degree in industrial engineering from Ohio State University. Currently he is chairman of the boards of directors of SEMI and The SEMI Foundation.
Victoria Hadfield is president of SEMI North America and vice president of Global Industry Advocacy. In these roles she serves as the chief liaison to the SEMI North America Advisory Board and oversees operations, programs, and events for SEMI in North America. Previously Hadfield served as vice president of the SEMI Public Policy Program and managed government relations efforts for SEMI in Washington, D.C.
Hadfield holds an M.A. in international economics and international relations from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and she received a B.A. in history from the University of Michigan.
Tetsuro “Terry” Higashi is the chairman and CEO of Tokyo Electron Limited, where he has worked for 29 years. Throughout his career at Tokyo Electron Limited, Higashi has served in a variety of senior management positions, including managing director of the company. He was the chairman of SEMI from July 2004 to July 2005.
Higashi holds a master’s degree in social science from Tokyo Metropolitan University; he received an undergraduate degree from the Department of Social Science at International Christian University in Tokyo.
Richard S. Hill is chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Novellus Systems. Previously Hill spent 12 years at Tektronix, where he held a variety of positions, including president of Tektronix Development Company, vice president of the Test and Measurement Group, and president of Tektronix Components Corporation. Prior to joining Tektronix, he held engineering management positions at General Electric, Motorola, and Hughes Aircraft Company.
Hill received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and a master's degree in business administration from Syracuse University. He is a board member of the University of Illinois Foundation and serves on the boards of LSI and Arrow Electronics.
G. Dan Hutcheson is CEO of VLSI Research. He is also cofounder and director of the Chip History Center, the first virtual museum to preserve the history of the industry that opened the doors to the information age. His career has spanned 30 years.
Hutcheson holds a master’s degree in economics from San Jose State University and has completed additional engineering course work at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored numerous publications, developed many industry models, and researched most aspects of the semiconductor industry.
C. Scott Kulicke is chairman and CEO of Kulicke and Soffa Industries, the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor assembly equipment, materials, and technology. In 1973 Kulicke joined Kulicke and Soffa as manager of Far East operations, based in Hong Kong. When he returned to the United States, he was named international marketing manager and has subsequently filled the roles of product manager, executive vice president, and president and CEO.
Kulicke served as director of SEMI for eight years; he has also served as president of SEMI. He has an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
David A. Laws is the staff director of the Semiconductor Special Interest Group at the Computer History Museum. He recently curated the online exhibit The Silicon Engine. Laws was born and educated in the United Kingdom, where he received a B.Sc. in physics.
In 1968 Laws emigrated to the United States and began working in the Silicon Valley. He has served in various roles, ranging from product marketing engineer to CEO, at semiconductor companies including Fairchild Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, and Altera Corporation.
Robert E. Lorenzini is a venture partner at NGEN Partners. He founded Elmat Corporation, a manufacturer of silicon processing equipment, in 1964. In 1969 Lorenzini founded Siltec Corporation, and in 1988, he cofounded SunPower Corporation.
Lorenzini is also cofounder of the Band of Angels investment group, has served as a director and chairman for various startup businesses spanning 35 years in Silicon Valley, and is the recipient of the SEMI Award for his pioneering work in the field of silicon crystal growth. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in materials science from Stanford University.
Tsugio Makimoto is the president of TechnoVision, a consulting office he owns and directs. For over 40 years Makimoto worked at Hitachi in the field of semiconductors and held various positions, including senior executive managing director. He joined Sony Corporation in 2000 as corporate senior executive vice president and in 2001 became corporate advisor in charge of semiconductor technology.
Makimoto is currently on the boards of directors for Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Elpida Memory, and he is chairman of PDF Solutions Japan. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in applied physics from the University of Tokyo.
Thomas J. Misa is director of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he is also the ERA Chair in the History of Technology, a faculty member in the department of electrical and computer engineering, and an instructor in the program for the history of science, technology, and medicine.
Misa earned a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in applied biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published five books, including Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (2004).
Stanley T. Myers is the president and CEO of SEMI. Myers has served on the SEMI board of directors since 1988 and was appointed SEMI president in 1996.
Previously Myers worked at Siltec Silicon (now Mitsubishi Silicon American Corporation) for 17 years, serving as president and CEO from 1985 to 1996. He is a member of the Engineering Advisory Council of San Jose State University. Myers also sits on the boards of Ecosol, SKW Corporation, and the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas.
Stephen G. Newberry is president and CEO of Lam Research Corporation. He is a graduate of the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and he received a B.S. in ocean engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Newberry served five years in naval aviation. He worked for 17 years at Applied Materials, holding various positions, including group vice president of global operations and planning. Newberry joined Lam in 1997 as executive vice president and chief operating officer. He currently serves on the boards of directors for Lam, SEMI, and Nextest Systems Corporation.
Griff Resor is the president of Resor Associates, a management consulting firm. In 1986 Resor cofounded MRS Technology, which brought stepper technology to the emerging flat-panel display market. He served as chairman and CEO of MRS Technology until 1997, when he launched Resor Associates and set out to help research and development teams at integrated circuit companies.
From 1998 until 2004 he was editor of Lithography Review, a technology newsletter that surveys developments in lithography technology. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. in physics from Yale University.
Peter H. Rose has served as president for various organizations, including Ion Micro Fabrication Systems USA, Eaton Semiconductor Group, and Nova Associates.
In 1997 Rose received the SEMMY Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1996 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of London and a B.Sc. in physics from Kings College, London.
George M. Scalise is president of the Semiconductor Industry Association. Previously he served as executive vice president of operations at Apple Computer. He has also held executive management positions at National Semiconductor, Maxtor Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Motorola Semiconductor.
Scalise received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He was a founding member and chairman of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, which provides resources for precompetitive semiconductor research at American universities.
Currently Scalise serves on President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as well as numerous boards, including those of Cadence Design Systems, MindTree Consulting, and Intermolecular.
Harry Sello is president of Harry Sello and Associates, a company he founded in 1982. Prior to starting his own business, Sello worked as technical director for the worldwide marketing department at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation; he served as manager in several different areas at Fairchild between 1959 and 1968.
In 1990 Sello was named Export Executive of the Year by the Northern California District Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is the author of 22 technical publications. He received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Missouri and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois.
Thomas St. Dennis is senior vice president and general manager of the Silicon Systems Group at Applied Materials. From 2003 to 2005 St. Dennis helped lead Novellus Systems as executive vice president and a member of the Office of the CEO. From 1999 to 2003 he was president and CEO of Wind River Systems, a leader in embedded software.
Before that, St. Dennis spent 20 years in the semiconductor industry, including a seven-year tenure at Applied Materials. He holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Arnold Thackray was the founding president of the Chemical Heritage Foundation and today serves the organization as chancellor. He majored in the physical sciences before turning to the history of science, and he holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
Thackray was the founding chairman of, and most recently Joseph Priestley Professor in, the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a faculty member for more than a quarter century.
He has served on the boards the American Council on Education and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of History and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Arthur W. Zafiropoulo is chairman, president, and CEO of Ultratech. Previously he served as president of the General Signal Semiconductor Equipment Group’s International Operations, was founder and president of Drytek, and was president of Kayex.
Zafiropoulo was honored with SEMI’s first Bob Graham Award for Marketing Excellence in 2000. In 2007 Zafiropoulo was elected director emeritus to the board of directors of SEMI after serving on the board for 11 years.
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