SEMICON Singapore Press Room

Stanley T. Myers, President & CEO

Stanley T. Myers is the President & CEO of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI®). Headquartered in San Jose, California, SEMI is a global industry association serving more than 2,000 companies that provide the equipment, materials and services to manufacture semiconductors, displays, nano-scaled structures, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and related technologies. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Moscow, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taiwan, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.

Myers presides over the association’s international SEMICON trade expositions, trade missions, market statistics program, international standards programs, economic conferences and government relations program.

Prior to his appointment as SEMI president in 1996, Myers worked for 17 years at Siltec Silicon, a manufacturer of silicon wafers, based in Salem, Oregon. He served as president and CEO since 1985, and in 1986 he completed negotiations for the acquisition of Siltec by Mitsubishi Materials Corporation. In July 1996, Siltec officially changed its name to Mitsubishi Silicon America Corporation. Prior to Siltec, Myers worked for Monsanto Corporation for 18 years.

Myers continues to serve on the SEMI board of directors, a post to which he was elected in 1988. He sits on the boards of Ecosol, SKW Corporation, and Chairman of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Board to MATEC (Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center). Myers also is a member of the Engineering Advisory Board to the School of Engineering, San Jose State University.

Myers earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas.

Paul Davis 

Paul Davis is president of SEMI Singapore and executive vice president for SEMI, the global industry association serving companies that provide equipment, materials and services used to manufacture semiconductors, photovoltaic, displays, nano-scaled structures, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and related technologies. 

Mr. Davis’s career in the semiconductor industry began in production control at Synertek, Inc., Santa Clara, California, where he was responsible for forecasting capital equipment capacity requirements.  In 1983, he joined SEMI and soon became manager of the standards and technical programs departments.  When the SEMI Japan office opened, Mr. Davis was assigned the role of headquarters staff liaison.  During this time he developed SEMI’s first programs in China and South Korea.  In 1988 he was appointed SEMI's director of European operations, opening the Brussels office in 1989.  In 1992, Mr. Davis oversaw the establishment of SEMI’s Moscow office.  He returned to SEMI headquarters in 1995 and assumed the position of vice president, international operations.  In September 2000, Mr. Davis was promoted to senior vice president and appointed to the executive management committee.  In March 2004, Mr. Davis was named executive vice president.  He served as president of SEMI China 2003 and 2004 and was named President of SEMI Singapore in January 2007. 

Mr. Davis received his BA degree with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979.

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