Salah Nasri is the CEO & Co-Founder of the International Semiconductor Executive Summits (ISES), a division of the International Semiconductor Industry Group Ltd. an influential organization within the semiconductor industry. With extensive experience in the sector, Nasri has played a pivotal role in fostering global collaboration among semiconductor leaders. Under his leadership, ISES has become a premier platform for industry executives to connect, share insights, and drive innovation across various regions including the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Salah Nasri has been instrumental in expanding the reach and impact of ISES, organizing significant events that bring together decision-makers from across the semiconductor ecosystem. These events provide opportunities for networking, collaboration, and the exchange of ideas crucial for advancing the industry in areas such as semiconductor manufacturing, MEMS, AI, automotive electronics, and more.

His leadership has not only enhanced the visibility of ISES globally but also strengthened partnerships with key industry players, ensuring that ISES remains at the forefront of semiconductor innovation and development. Salah Nasri has previously worked at Goldman Sachs’s, Credit Suisse and International Business Development Group. Salah Nasri graduated from Oxford University and Loughborough University in International Relations and Economics. In 2024, Salah Nasri became a Stanford University Alumni after completing the Stanford Executive Program.

Francesco Muggeri is Vice President for Power Discrete and Analog Products, China at STMicroelectronics. In his role, Muggeri leads ST’s Industrial Focused Competence Centers including the Motor Control Competence Center, Power & Energy Competence Center and Automation Competence Center in Asia and is appointed as the Global Leader of ST Industrial Power and Energy Segment in July 2024.

Muggeri joined ST in 1995, as a designer for automotive sensors in Italy. In 2000, he moved to product marketing for power transistors before relocating to Shanghai as marketing manager for transistors in 2002. In 2008, Muggeri moved to Commercial Marketing for STMicroelectronics’ Asia Pacific operations in Hong Kong. He became director for Discrete and Analog Products in 2017 and added Marketing Communications to his mandate in 2018.

Francesco Muggeri was born in Zambrone, Italy in 1969 and graduated with a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy. In 2014, he received an EMBA degree from the Global Asia Program, organized by the London Business School of London, Columbia University of New York, and the University of Hong Kong. In recognition of his contribution to the electronics industry, Muggeri was awarded the 2023 Asia Executive of the Year by EETimes and EDN from Aspencore.

Mark Muenzer received the Dipl.-lng. degree in electrical engineering from the RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1997. As a development engineer for industrial power modules at Eupec GmbH he established industry leading power modules. In 2005 Mark transferred to Infineon Headquarter in Munich where he build up Infineon’s ElectricDriveTrain business. He initiated new product families for automotive power modules and related driver ICs. As a senior director Mark Muenzer was from 2012 until 2018 responsible for the newly found business segment EDT-Electric Drive Train. 2018 Mark Muenzer took over a position as Vice President for Innovation & Emerging Technologies in the Automotive High Power business line of Infineon. In September 2022 Mark was promoted to Distinguished Engineer.

Markus has 20 years professional experience in managing globally Business and Product Lines in the Semiconductor Industry, developing, and setting up Sales & Marketing offices in China and Asia-Pacific, improving Market Share in different market segments including Mobile Solutions, Bipolar Power and Security. As well in his career he has been addressing different applications for Mobile Chipsets, Security and Chip Cards ICs, and more recently Power Discrete in Renewable Energy, Industrial and Consumer markets. Markus has 15 years living and working experience in Asia-Pacific (Singapore) and China (Beijing and Shanghai).

Victor Veliadis is Executive Director & CTO of PowerAmerica, a member-driven Manufacturing USA Institute of industry, universities, and national labs accelerating the commercialization of energy efficient silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductor chips and electronics. At PowerAmerica he has managed a budget of US$156 million, and is now managing a US$64M renewal. Victor is also an ECE Professor at NC State University, an IEEE Fellow, a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, and an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He has 27 issued U.S. patents, 12 book chapters, and 165 peer-reviewed publications to his credit.

Ralf Bornefeld is Senior Vice President with responsibility for business line and engineering of Power Semiconductors & Modules at Bosch. He joined Bosch in November 2019.

Before he held various management positions at Infineon Technologies AG: senior director technology in frontend production from 2005-2008, senior director engineering of automotive sensors until 2011 and finally vice president and general manager business line automotive sensors.

Ralf started his career at Elmos Semiconductor in 1992 as a technology development engineer. Afterwards he took several management positions until end of 2004, mostly serving as vice president of R&D and eventually as vice president of business line microsystems.

Ralf Bornefeld was born in Schalksmuehle, Germany, in 1964. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Dortmund in 1992.

Dr. Rainer Kaesmaier is a Managing Director for the Global Product Group Semiconductors of Hitachi Energy, leading the semiconductor business with its global manufacturing and R&D footprint for the power semiconductor product portfolio which compromises GTOs, IGBTs, IGCTs, Thyristors, Diodes for market segments such as energy transmission & distribution, transportation & rail, renewable, industrial, and emobility. Rainer is a semiconductor industry veteran having held various management and executive positions in the sector for more than 25 years, covering areas of global responsibility in business strategy and development, business transformation, technology and engineering, operations and production, R&D, as well as sales and marketing. After stations at Siemens, Infineon, Qimonda, and the European semiconductor manufacturer LFoundry, he resumed in 2018 the responsibility for ABB’s semiconductor business which is now Hitachi Energy. He is also a member of the board for Hitachi Energy Switzerland. Rainer was a member in various industries strategy committees in Europe and the US. Rainer holds a masters degree in physics from the Technical University Munich and a PhD in physics from the University Kassel in Germany. He is based in Lenzburg near Zürich, Switzerland.

Julian Fieres studied management but always loved technology equally as much and is now working towards a vision for zero emissions to leave a better planet for the next generation. He is the Vice President of Transformation, Strategy, Sustainability & Digitalization at the Division Electrified Powertrain at the ZF Group. This includes the areas of strategy, M&A, product planning, digitalization and sustainability. With a revenue of €10 billion and around 30,000 employees at Division E, his team and he strive to make an impact for a more affordable and more sustainable mobility of tomorrow every day.

Founder & CEO of Fast SiC Semiconductor. fastSiC is a fabless company dedicated on SiC power devices. Fast SiC Semiconductor has mass produced 650V~1700V SiC MOSFETs with its own proprietary designs, which have been adopted by leading customers in the field of server power supplies, charging piles and PV inverters. He has more than 10 years experiences on the design, process, qualification and application of SiC power devices. He currently serves as the TPC member of ISPSD and has published and filed more than 150 papers and patents.

吴桐，安森美（onsemi）中国区汽车市场负责人，上海交通大学半导体物理专业，数学专业辅修本科毕业，美国田纳西大学电气工程博士学位。吴博士在半导体封装，碳化硅设计应用方面拥有 10 余年的研发和工业经验。 目前在安森美负责中国区汽车技术与市场，覆盖产品设计，制造，市场及应用，了解新能源行业的市场、供应链、开发流程以及解决方案。与国内多家车厂、Tier 1 保持着深度合作以及技术支持。曾就职于美国田纳西州橡树岭橡树岭国家实验室（ORNL），以及车厂研发团队，共在国际会议和期刊上发表了 40 多篇论文，同时获得了多项 半导体方面的美国专利。

Dr. Tong Wu is onsemi SiC Expert & Leader of China Auto Marketing & Technical Team, responsible for developing the SiC market in China, as well as providing technical support for car OEMs and Tier1s, and participating in multiple NPIs. He has more than 10 years of R&D and industrial experience in wide band-gap devices and its applications. Prior to joining onsemi, Dr. Wu conducted his research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL) for multiple DOE-funded SiC-related projects.

Dr. Wu received his B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, majoring in semiconductor physics and minoring in mathematics. Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the University of Tennessee, USA. He conducted his doctoral research at the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Center of Oak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL). Dr. Wu has authored/co-authored more than 40 papers in international conferences and journals and awarded several U.S. patents in SiC area.

Stefan Pieper has studied chemistry in Berlin, Germany where he also completed his PH.D. in analytical chemistry. In 2009 he joined Atotech as Application Scientist in the department of Semiconductor Advanced Packaging processes where he used the opportunity to gain deep insight in multiple electrochemical metallization processes and their characterization for semiconductor application. During his work as Application Scientist, he also spent over 3 years in the US where he optimized Cu dual damascene electrodeposition and Through Silicon Via plating. In 2020 he took over the position of Global Application Manager for Electroless deposition processes in semiconductor application at Atotech. In his current position he is leading a team that provides wet-chemical solutions for semiconductor metallization with the focus on power semiconductor.

Stefan Pieper博士曾在德国柏林学习化学，并在那里获得分析化学博士学位。2009年，他加入安美特，担任半导体先进封装工艺部应用科学家。利用这个机会，他深入了解了多种电化学金属化工艺及其在半导体应用中的特性。在担任应用科学家期间，他还在美国花了3年多的时间，优化了双大马士革铜互连工艺和硅通孔电镀工艺。2020年，他接任安美特半导体化学镀工艺全球应用经理一职。在目前的职位上，他领导的团队为半导体金属化提供湿制程解决方案，重点是功率半导体。

Dr. KK Kuo is Vice President of ATX Group R&D Center, responsible for development of new technology, introduction of high technology. Dr. Kuo has over 22 years’ experience in semiconductor industry, good at new product development of RF modules, sensors, high reliability and intelligent automotive electronics, IoT IC and smart mobile communications. He holds more than 50 Chinese patents, dozens of U.S. and Taiwanese patents, and published many academic papers. Dr. Kuo is a member of IEEE Electronic Packaging Society, selected as “Science and Technology Entrepreneur of Jiangsu Province” in 2018. He graduated from Taiwan Sun Yat-Sen University with PhD in electrical engineering.

Dr. Liu has more than 20 years’ semiconductor industry and more than 10 years’ experience with rich experience and unique understanding of technology industrialization and internationalization. His academic in materials science includes Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Muenster University in Germany, Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan. He industry career covered China Resources Microelectronics, ASMC (Now GtaSemi). Dr. Liu received his BS degree in physical chemistry from Sichuan University, PhD in Materials Science from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He held a Postdoc position in Nagoya Institute of Technology, and received a Young Scientist Award by Asian Crystallography Association. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2000. S. He has authored more than 30 papers, and holds over 40 patents. His research covers semiconductor materials, devices and processing.

Jim Jian is Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific and North America at VisIC Technologies, responsible for all aspects of Sales and Business Development of VisIC’s GaN semiconductors to Automotive OEMs and Tier-1s. Jim has over 25 years of experiences in semiconductor industry, spanning across Sales, Business Development, Product Management, Applications Engineering, and Design Engineering at various semiconductor companies including Broadcom, Provigent, Lucent Technologies. Jim graduated from California State University at San Jose with a BSEE degree.

Dr. Liu has more than 20 years’ semiconductor industry and more than 10 years’ experience with rich experience and unique understanding of technology industrialization and internationalization. His academic in materials science includes Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Muenster University in Germany, Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan. He industry career covered China Resources Microelectronics, ASMC (Now GtaSemi). Dr. Liu received his BS degree in physical chemistry from Sichuan University, PhD in Materials Science from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He held a Postdoc position in Nagoya Institute of Technology, and received a Young Scientist Award by Asian Crystallography Association. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2000. S. He has authored more than 30 papers, and holds over 40 patents. His research covers semiconductor materials, devices and processing.