Mike Polcari
President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael R. Polcari has served as SEMATECH's president and CEO since 2003. He is responsible for leading the consortium’s advanced technology R&D programs in lithography, front end processes, interconnect, and metrology. Polcari has also overseen the launch of two SEMATECH subsidiaries—ATDF, as a leading R&D processing and prototyping center, and the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI), which has added seven members during his tenure.
Previously, Polcari was vice president of Procurement Engineering for IBM Global Procurement in Somers, NY, and was responsible for IBM’s engineering effort in procurement including supplier quality management. During his nearly 30 years of working for IBM, Polcari also held positions as Research Director – Silicon Technology and Director of the Advanced Semiconductor Technology Laboratory at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and Lithography Systems Manager for the IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center.
Polcari earned a Ph.D. and Master of Science in solid-state physics from the Stevens Institute of Technology. He conducted additional graduate work in physics at the University of Maryland, and earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Notre Dame.
Polcari has served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and as a member of several industry and university advisory boards. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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