Stan Myers
Stan Myers
CEO, SEMI
PRESIDENT & CEO OF SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS INTERNATIONAL Stanley T. Myers is the President & CEO of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI®). Headquartered in San Jose, California, SEMI is an international industry association that serves more than 2,500 companies involved in the semiconductor and flat panel display equipment and materials industries. 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, NCT Corp. and 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’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas.