Mike Polcari
President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael Polcari was named president and CEO of SEMATECH
in February of 2003. He is also Chairman
of the Board for the Advanced Technology Development Facility
(ATDF) Board of Directors. The ATDF is a SEMATECH subsidiary.
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 PhD. and M.S. in solid-state physics from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a doctoral thesis entitled “Electron Spin Polarization at the Nucleus of 57Fe in Iron Metal.” He conducted additional graduate work in physics at the University of Maryland, and earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Notre Dame.
Serving as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Polcari has been active with industry funding of university research. He also served on advisory boards for semiconductor industry associations at both MIT and Stanford Universities.
Polcari served eight years in the United States Army Reserve, reaching the rank of captain. 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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