Ajit Manocha
Ajit Manocha is a semiconductor industry executive, currently serving as Co-Chairman of the Board of POET Technologies.Appointed as CEO of GlobalFoundries in 2011, he stood down from the post in January 2014.Prior to his appointment as GlobalFoundries CEO he was an advisor to Advanced Technology Investment Company and Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations and a member of the Executive Management Board at Spansion. At Spansion, Manocha managed global integrated circuit manufacturing, supply chain management and purchasing for its semiconductor division.Earlier he was Executive Vice President and Chief Manufacturing Officer at NXP Semiconductors.Manocha has also worked at AT&T Microelectronics and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Manocha began his career as a Research Scientist and was granted over a dozen U.S. and international patents for several novel inventions in the field of technology for microelectronics, including one for Anistropic etching that is a “process for treating patterned Very-large-scale integration lithographic masks to retain their shape during processing of VLSI wafers”.Manocha serves on the Board of Directors for SVTC Technologies and Signet Solar. He has previously sat on the boards of International Sematech, the Crolles Alliance, ASMC and has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of SSMC in Singapore.He holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Delhi and a master's degree in physical chemistry from Kansas State University.