Steve Moffatt

Title: Controlling Thermal Processing to Enable a 3D World

Biography

Steve Moffatt originates from the Borders of Scotland and England; a 30+ years veteran of Silicon Valley, known for technology foresight and leadership. With training at Shell and a PhD from St. Andrews, he joined a small Applied Materials in 1981, now grown into the multi-billion dollar leader, in precision materials engineering and a global industrial bellwether. Today he is CTO (Front End Products) working on transistor level technology; he previously worked in the last 15 years as CEO, COO, CTO & GM in many Tech locations including, Taiwan, Korea, Israel and Bell Labs. He has overseen many key technology business spin-offs, and has been a vigorous in M&A activities. Steve has a strong interest in Intellectual Property Portfolio Management, High Quality Patents and subsequent value and application in Technology Markets. He has been noted as Prolific Inventor with more than 300 global patent filings, over 100 issued patents and 35 issued key US patent families. These include Applied Materials Products in various semiconductor, lithography, processing and energy applications. He has been actively involved in global trade considerations, and served with advisory committees for technology products over the last 20 years, in Europe, Asia and USA, especially in regard to the Wassenaar Agreement. Steve is active in Amateur Radio and has worked technology and transmission from VLF (kHz) through the entire radio spectrum to, microwave, Teraherz and Optical. He also holds a competition race license and enjoys classic car competition along with modern leading edge performance GT and sports cars. With two UK Queens Awards, the Dan Maydan Award and three Presidents Awards in Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality he recently twice received “Best Patent Award” from Applied Materials. He has served on many company and Tech Advisory Boards in Europe and North America. He was also winner of 2013 Environmental Innovation Award and the Mini-Environment Innovation Award at Applied Materials.