Dr. André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé co-founded Soitec with Jean-Michel Lamure in1992. As President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Auberton-Hervé is responsible for overseeing the strategic, operational and financial activities of the company.

Soitec is the world’s leading innovator and provider of advanced substrates and solutions for the microelectronics and energy industries. The company leverages its proprietary Smart Cut™ technology to engineer new materials, such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, which became the first high-volume application for this proprietary technology. Additionally expertise in compound materials and bonding and thinning techniques gives Soitec’s innovation toolbox the foundation for developing new materials in many fields of interest. Most recently, in December 2009, Soitec strengthened its leadership position in innovative solutions by acquiring Concentrix Solar, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute specialized in Concentrated Photovoltaic system for high growth segments of the solar industry.

 

Prior to founding Soitec, Dr. Auberton-Hervé managed several joint development programs between Leti and Thomson-CSF, which focused on the technological transfer from R&D to production applications. These programs included the transfer SOI CMOS for space applications. He was also in charge of several projects, which applied SOI to 3D integration, VLSI and ULSI.

 

Since April 2010, Dr. Auberton-Hervé has been nominated as member of the High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies. The European Commission established this group composed of industrial andacademic experts from the European Member States, tasked with developing a shared longer term strategy forkey enabling technologies such as nanoelectronics, nanotechnologies, photonics, advanced materials, andbiotechnology. As of 2008, Dr. Auberton-Hervé is the treasurer and member of the AENEAS (Association for European NanoElectronics Activities) presidium. He is also a member of the Electrochemical Society, the IEEE and ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council).

 

In July 2010, Dr. Auberton-Hervé was elected to serve as Chairman of the SEMI European Advisory Board. His demonstrated vision, experience and leadership capabilities within the industry contributedto his appointment. He has long played an active role in SEMI activities. In July 2011 he was elected as Vice Chairman of the SEMI International Board of Directors where he was a member since 1995. He is also the recipient of the 1999 European SEMI Award in recognition of his work on Smart Cut™ technology and his overall contributions to the greater semiconductor industry.
 

Dr. Auberton-Hervé served for 3 years as the first Chairman of the SOI Industry Consortium, an international organization launched in October 2007 by 19 founding companies throughout the electronics industry with the mission to accelerate SOI innovation into broad markets. Today, he remains chair emeritus of the SOI Industry Consortium Board of Directors.

Auberton-Hervé holds a doctorate degree in semiconductor physics and a master’s degree in materials science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France).