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.

Chris Camacho serves as president & CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC), one of the longest-standing public-private partnerships for economic development across the country. As chief executive, Chris leads the development and execution of the region’s strategic economic strategy, oversees domestic and international business development, and ensures the market position remains competitive through coordination with partner organizations, private sector leaders, and municipal and state leadership. GPEC has attracted more than 540 companies during his tenure, creating more than 100,000 jobs and $56.8 billion in capital investment. Some notable projects include TSMC, Apple, LG Energy Solutions, Microsoft, GoDaddy, Amazon, Garmin, General Motors, HelloFresh, KORE Power, Williams-Sonoma and headquarters including Benchmark Electronics, Carlisle Companies, Rogers Corporation and EMD Electronics. In October 2021, Chris led GPEC to being recognized as the top economicdevelopment organization globally by the International Economic Development Council a year after being named the top EDO in the U.S. in 2020.

Dr. Babak Sabi, formerly Senior Vice President and the General Manager of Assembly & Test Technology Development (ATTD) at Intel Corporation. Since 2009, he has been responsible for the company’s packaging, assembly, and test process technology development.

Babak joined Intel in 1984. Prior to leading ATTD, he oversaw Intel’s Corporate Quality Network from 2002 to 2009 where he led product reliability, customer satisfaction and quality business practices.

Babak received his Ph.D. in solid state electronics from Ohio State University in 1984. He has authored ten papers on reliability physics and has received five Intel Achievement Awards. He currently holds two patents.

Dr. Jun He is Vice President of Quality & Reliability as well as Advanced Packaging Technology & Service at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC). His responsibility spans across TSMC foundry eco-system and the Company’s backend business and operations management. Within the Q&R scope, his function covers incoming materials qualification, reliability and certification of new process technology & design IP, manufacturing quality as well as enabling customers for their product qualification and ramp. Besides overseeing all TSMC advanced packaging and testing manufacturing, his backend team is also accountable for key building blocks including bump/passivation/RDL process innovations and test technology development. Seamless collaboration and joint development with external partners across material, OSAT and substrate supply chain is one of his focus areas to enable customers’ product innovations at system level.

Prior to joining TSMC, Dr. He was a senior director at Intel Corporation, leading overall quality and reliability of process technology development and manufacturing. His scope included research & development of Si, advanced packaging and test along with Intel worldwide manufacturing operations.

Dr. He holds over 40 patents globally and published 50 papers in international conferences and peer-reviewed technical journals. He received his B.S. degree in Physics and Ph.D. in Materials Science from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Raja Swaminathan is the Corporate Vice President of Packaging at AMD, spearheading the development of AMD’s advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration roadmap. With a distinguished career spanning roles at Intel, Apple, and now AMD, Dr. Swaminathan’s expertise in design-technology co-optimization and dedication to optimizing power, performance, area, and cost (PPAC) have led to significant technological advancements such as EMIB, Apple’s Mx packages, 3D V-Cache, and 3.5D architectures for AI accelerators. Dr. Swaminathan holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree from IIT Madras. With over 100 patents and more than 40 published papers to their name, Dr. Swaminathan was recently recognized as an IEEE Fellow and serves as a technical advisor to multiple startups. His unwavering commitment to heterogeneous integration continues to drive the boundaries of silicon technology.

Len Tedeschi is vice president and general manager, Core Packaging Products at Applied Materials. Len is directly responsible for the Metals Packaging Products (MPP), Packaging Plating & Cleans (PPC), Tango & Plasma Dicing product groups. His focus is ensuring customers are successful with their current products, while simultaneously solving customer’s future high value problems.

Len has worked at Applied for >20 years and has over 27 years of semiconductor experience in roles ranging from product development & support, productivity, technical strategy, marketing, and general management. Len has worked with a variety of products and technologies including etch, deposition, lithography, metrology, and inspection.

Prior to joining Packaging, Len spent 14 years in Applied’s Etch Business Unit in a wide variety of customer focused positions. Len has >10 patents granted, mainly as the lead author.

Len began his career in 1995 as a lithography equipment engineer at IDT in Santa Clara, California.

He earned a bachelor of science degree in industrial technology from San Jose State University in 1995, where he served as captain of the university’s judo team, winning two collegiate national titles, and competing in the 1996 Olympic Judo Trials.

Oreste Donzella serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at KLA  Corporation, leading key corporate growth initiatives and working closely with  external stakeholders, such as financial investors and end customers in the broad electronics ecosystem. 

Prior to his current role, Oreste was Executive Vice President, managing the Electronics, Packaging and Component (EPC) business group at KLA Corporation, which included multiple product divisions, targeting growth opportunities in specialty semiconductors, packaging, printed circuit board and display markets. 

Previously, Oreste was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of KLA. In this role, he oversaw corporate marketing activities, market analytics and forecast, and companywide collaborations with the broad electronics industry. 

In the years before his CMO role, Oreste led the world-wide field applications engineering team, and was responsible for Customer Engagement projects and product portfolio optimization for wafer inspection platforms at KLA. 

Previously, Oreste was Vice President and General Manager of the Surfscan and SWIFT divisions at KLA-Tencor. In these positions, he was responsible for the unpatterned wafer inspection, wafer geometry, and macro inspection business, overseeing new products development, sales, and marketing activities, customer support, and ultimately, division financial performance (P&L). 

Oreste brings 30+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining KLA in 1999, he spent almost seven years at Texas Instruments and Micron Technology, holding engineering and management positions in the process integration and yield enhancement departments. 

Oreste holds various patents and is featured in several technical publications. 

In 2020, Oreste was awarded with VLSI Semiconductor All Star for “charting KLA’s path into new markets related to More than Moore semiconductor technologies” 

Oreste earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy .

Curtis joined Amkor in 1999 and has held leadership roles in developing Amkor’s Fine Pitch Copper Pillar, Through Mold Via, and Wafer Level packaging technologies. He was formerly responsible for Advanced System in Package product development. Curtis has authored numerous technical articles and papers, and he currently serves on the IMAPS Executive Council as Director of Membership. Curtis has been issued 35 US patents and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

Claudionor N. Coelho is the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and SVP of Engineering at Advantest, being responsible for AI strategy for Advantest and leading engineering for ACS.

Previously, he was the VP/Fellow for AI – Head of AI Labs at Palo Alto Networks, where he led AI and Neurosymbolic innovation for AIOps products at Palo Alto Networks. He also led the creation of next-generation time series analysis tools at scale (MLOps on GCP) integrated with knowledge graphs and formal technology.

He worked on Machine Learning/Deep Learning at Google. He is the creator of QKeras, a Deep Learning package for quantization on top of Keras with support for automatic quantization, being used by CERN (which made it to the cover page of Nature Machine Intelligence in August 2021). He was the VP of Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning at NVXL Technology. He did seminal work on AI at Synopsys Inc, and he opened the site for Cadence Design Systems in Brazil, being the GM for the site, following the acquisition of Jasper Design Automation, where he was the Worldwide SVP of R&D. Under his leadership, Jasper was awarded one of the most innovative companies in the US in 2013, according to Red Herring.

He created the initial strategy for Kunumi (when he was an angel investor), and he is an investor and is on the TAB of ConDati. He has more than 100 papers, patents, academic, and industry awards. He is currently an Invited Professor for Deep Learning at Santa Clara University, and previously, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UFMG, Brazil, when he took the ACM Programming Contest to the Southern Hemisphere. He has a Ph.D. in EE/CS from Stanford University, an MBA from IBMEC Business School, and an MSCS and BSEE (summa cum laude) from UFMG, Brazil.

• Vice President of Advance Packaging Technology and Assembly Engineering Operations & Managing all IoT and Infrastructure (IIBU) support (~ $7B Rev) for Renesas World Wide.
• 35 Years in Semiconductor Industry
• Prior to being at Renesas, part of the Acquisition of IDT by Renesas(VP , Sr. Dir, Dir) , Maxim (now ADI), Cirrus Logic, and Allegro Microsystem.
• Hold BS in Mechanical Engineering & Mathematics from University of Massachusetts , Amherst.
• Hold More than 15 USA and International issued Patents, and have published several articles in Advance Packaging and Thermal management of Semiconductors.

Mario Morales is the group vice president of IDC’s enabling technologies, semiconductor, storage, and DataSphere research.

He is responsible for in-depth analysis, evaluation of emerging markets and trends, forecasting, and research of major semiconductor industry segments such as embedded and intelligent systems, wireless, personal computing, networking and cloud infrastructure, automotive electronics, and AI semiconductors.

BACKGROUND

Mr. Morales is an accomplished program vice president, manager, and industry expert with over 25 years of experience in building a multinational top-tier consulting, sales, and research team and driving a set of established businesses. Solid experience in managing strategic partnerships and advisory services with IDC’s largest multinational clients. Strong analytical, strategic planning skills, and managing complex projects involving strong collaboration across geographies, functional groups, and business units. Proven leadership skills and instrumental at establishing research and business KPIs.

Mr. Morales is a trusted advisor to leading high tech company executives, financial investors, and bankers on market landscape and direction, product and technology positioning, competitive benchmarking, M&A, HW, and SW technology, and brand health and sustainability. Established relationships with technology suppliers including Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Qualcomm, Huawei, HP, AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Facebook, TI, Micron, UMC, SoftBank, ARM, NXP, and others.

Mr. Morales is the leading advisor and expert analyst for IDC’s largest Wall Street clients including investment banking, VC’s, and mutual and hedge funds across every major financial region.

Over his career, Mr. Morales has authored and co-authored over 240 reports and studies in the area of semiconductors, mobile, PC, wireless, embedded, IoT, and IT marketplace. His team is responsible for some of the most interesting and evolving tech in our industry including coverage of microprocessors, accelerated computing, storage, memory, sensors and connectivity. His team has been responsible for initiating coverage of emerging technologies for IDC, and driving new research business practices, and creating leading industry market models in DRAM, NAND, Embedded processors and controllers, AI ML architectures, cellular baseband modems, WiFi, cellular broadband, digital consumer, foundry, EMS, and intelligent systems.

His career includes past positions with NEC Electronics and Dataquest.

EDUCATIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• B.S. in Finance and Accounting from San Jose State University
• Fluent in English and Spanish
• Frequent presenter and advisor to CEOs and executive teams across his portfolio of clients
• Strong reputation as an advisor and industry expert on Wall Street
• IDC executive analyst for Intel and Qualcomm
• Frequent speaker, presenter, and moderator at IDC Directions events in Asia and semiconductor industy conferences including ISS, GSA, CASPA, CISES, and SEMI

Dr Yun Zhang, founder and CEO of Shinhao Materials LLC, has been active in materials innovation, R&D, marketing and sales for over 28 years, holding 34 granted patents, and numerous peer-reviewed journal publications and awards. She started her career at AT&T Bell labs in 1994, carrying out materials research and development. Her work on tin whisker growth won international recognition for demonstrating experimentally for the first time its driving force and for developing mitigation solutions. In 2002, she was appointed global R&D director by Cookson Electronics Enthone for its electronics business. In the subsequent 10 years, her insight and leadership in fundamental understanding of electrodeposition process at a molecule level, combined with a deep appreciation of technology trends and customer needs has won Dr. Zhang many friends and willing partners at top tier equipment manufacturers and key customers. Those close and collaborative partnerships resulted in win-win to all parties for RDL, copper pillar and TSV plating. She received a BS in chemistry from Nanjing University, and a PhD in chemistry from Brown University.

Jon Hander is Assistant Vice President of Panel Products for ASM NEXX. He has worked at NEXX since 2011 and in the semiconductor industry since 1996. In his career, Jon has served in manufacturing, service, process, sales, development & product management roles. Jon has a BS in Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University.

Hidenori Abe CTO for semiconductor materials, Resonac Holdings Corporation Executive director, Electronics Business Headquarters, Resonac Corporation. He is leading electronics materials R&D and strategy for semiconductor, substrate and display. Until 2023, he was the head of Electronics R&D Center and Packaging Solution Center, which is open innovation hub in advanced packaging development. I launched JOINT2, new advanced packaging consortium targeting 2.xD and 3D package in 2021.Prior to the above mission, he have been a General Manager of CMP Slurry Business Sector for three years. Before that he was a Manager of Marketing Promotion Group in Innovation Promotion Center at Hitachi Chemical (HC) for 2 years. When the career, he was promoted new R&D projects, especially targeting new business field using new technologies, and also to promote developing R&D products. As a side note, HC is one of the merged companies of Resonac. Hidenori Abe was Manager of Business Development Group in Packaging Solution Center at HC for 1 year with responsibility to promote open laboratory to partners such as customers and equipment makers, responsibility of marketing wearable related materials. Before that, he was epoxy molding compounds (EMC) engineer. During his 16 years carrier as engineer, he spent time doing responsibility of development of non-conductive carbon, green EMC, Cu wire compatible EMC, wafer level compression compounds, power module EMC and so on. His Cu wire compatible EMC development work contributed to the promotion to Cu wire conversion through several published papers. He received a master degree in chemical engineering field from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and a master degree at the EMBA course from Oxford, UK.

For more than 35 years, Keith Best has held a range of semiconductor processing and applications positions for both device manufacturing and capital equipment companies, of which 13 years were with ASML where he held the position of Director, Applications Engineering. Most recently, Keith was Advanced Packaging Process Development Engineering Manager at SkyWater Florida. He is currently the Director of Product Marketing, Lithography, at Onto Innovation supporting the JetStep® advanced packaging lithography stepper. Keith holds a B.Sc. Honors Degree in Materials Science from the University of Greenwich, UK. He has numerous publications and holds 22 US patents in the areas of photolithography and process integration.

Shekhar Chandrashekhar has over 30 years’ experience as a leader, strategist, and innovator with a history of driving improvements that streamline operations, drive growth and increase profitability on a global scale.

Prior to joining iNEMI, Shekhar was responsible for managing the national network of Smart Manufacturing Innovation Centers (SMICs) for the Clean Energy & Smart Manufacturing Institute (CESMII). He has also worked with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as managing director, programs, for the association’s executive leadership team. Shekhar began his career as a member of technical staff of AT&T Bell Labs and held several management positions with Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies/Alcatel-Lucent, including senior manager for the Network Solutions Group and Bell Labs/Supply Chain Networks. He eventually became director of the company’s CTO Group, where he created the footprint for Global Engineering Centers.

He received the Advanced Technology Excellence Award from Bell Laboratories and the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from SME. He has published over 25 papers in international journals and conferences.

Amy Leong has been with FormFactor since October 2012. Prior to this, Amy was the VP of Marketing at MicroProbe from April 2010 through the October 2012 closing of FormFactor’s acquisition of MicroProbe. Before joining MicroProbe, Ms. Leong worked at Gartner, Inc. as a Research Director from 2008 to 2010 and covered the ASSP system-on-chip and microcontroller markets. From 2003 to 2008, Ms. Leong worked at FormFactor where she served as Senior Director of Corporate Strategic Marketing and Director of DRAM Product Marketing. Prior to FormFactor, Ms. Leong worked in a variety of semiconductor process engineering and product marketing roles at KLA-Tencor and IBM.

Ms. Leong holds an M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tal Levin serves as the Executive Vice President at Green Technology Investments LLC (GTi), headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. GTI specializes in AMAT Metrology, encompassing a range of cutting-edge technologies such as SEMVision, Defect Review “DR-SEM,” VeritySEM, Critical Dimension SEM “CD-SEM”, and Compass & ComPLUS, Darkfield Inspection systems.

Having co-founded GTI in 2012, Tal has played a pivotal role in driving global sales initiatives until recently, when he shifted his focus to overseeing the technology roadmap and strategic procurement activities for both domestic and international clients.

In line with GTI’s growth strategy in 2023, the company underwent a transformation, establishing two distinct divisions: Metrex and RT-Ex. Additionally, GTI secured exclusive representation rights for the etrology™ software measurement solutions.

With over 32 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Tal Levin is a seasoned executive with a profound understanding of semiconductor processes. His expertise extends to establishing and managing global service and sales networks, particularly in key regions such as China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

Throughout his extensive career, Tal has held significant positions at notable companies including H.T.M., Norcimbus Inc., OEM Group, and GTI, where he and the team have developed several patent applications aimed at process enhancement and measurement refinement.

Tal Levin exemplifies excellence in management, strategic planning, and international business development within the semiconductor industry, serving as a benchmark for leadership and innovation.

Mark is President and General Manager of TEL Manufacturing and Engineering of America (TMEA), a group company of Tokyo Electron Limited.

Prior to joining TEL in April 2020 he was the VP of module engineering and manufacturing operations at GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 8, where he led a 10X increase in manufacturing capacity, ramping production volume and yield to world class levels.

Mark spent over 20 years in IBM’s semiconductor unit, working as a process and integration engineer before holding progressively larger management responsibilities in module engineering, process control, manufacturing operations, and unit process development.

He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, where he was formerly a member of the Industry Advisory Board for the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP), and currently serves as the chair of the Dean’s Leadership Council for the Wallace H Coulter School of Engineering.

Mark and his wife Amy reside in Minneapolis, and have four children.