Plenary Speaker

The Requirement for a Bright Future in Semiconductor Device Manufacturing is… Innovation, Collaboration and care for the Environment

Akihisa Sekiguchi
Tokyo Electron Limited

Biography: Dr. Akihisa (Aki) Sekiguchi currently serves as the Deputy Division General Manager of Tokyo Electron Limited`s Corporate Innovation Division and is responsible for technology overall.  Aki is also responsible for planning and executing worldwide alliance strategy for this corporate division.

He is currently on SEMI`s Board of Industry Leaders and is a member of the CTO Forum representing TEL.

In previous roles, he has led Corporate Marketing and Corporate Technology Development at TEL.

Prior to joining TEL in 2007, he worked for IBM Microelectronics Division for 17 years.  As part of Semiconductor Research and Development Center, he worked on the development of FEOL, MOL, and BEOL process and equipment that enabled IBM`s DRAM and SOI based logic technologies.  During his last three years with IBM, he was responsible for process technology transfer from IBM to Sony (used in Play Station 3).

Aki earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University, M. Eng. and B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, and an MBA in Finance from Stern School of Business (New York University while working for IBM).  His doctoral thesis was on experimental plasma physics for thermonuclear fusion.