Ajit Manocha is a semiconductor industry

Semiconductor industry

The semiconductor industry is the aggregate collection of companies engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductor devices. It formed around 1960, once the fabrication of semiconductors became a viable business...

 executive. He is currently serving as CEO of GlobalFoundries

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

GlobalFoundries Inc. is the world's third largest independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters located in Milpitas, California. GlobalFoundries was created by the divestiture of the manufacturing side of AMD on March 2, 2009, and was expanded through its merger with Chartered...

. Until recently, he was an advisor to ATIC

Advanced Technology Investment Company

Advanced Technology Investment Company is an investment company in the high-technology sector.ATIC has signaled interest in investing in high-technology companies and centers in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.-History & Growth:ATIC was established in 2008...

 and Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations and a member of the Executive Management Board at Spansion

Spansion

Spansion Inc. is a Flash memory chip maker that designs, develops and manufactures NOR flash memory products. The company has over 3,400 employees and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Spansion is a former joint-venture between AMD and Fujitsu....

. At Spansion, Manocha managed global integrated circuit

Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

 manufacturing, supply chain management

Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...

  and purchasing

Purchasing

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 for its semiconductor

Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

 division.

Earlier he was Executive Vice President and Chief Manufacturing Officer at NXP Semiconductors.

Manocha has also worked at AT&T

AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

 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

Very-large-scale integration

Very-large-scale integration is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI device.The first semiconductor...

 lithographic masks to retain their shape during processing of VLSI wafers”.

Manocha currently serves on the Board of Directors for SVTC Technologies

SVTC Technologies

SVTC Technologies is a technology services company that provides development and commercialization services for semiconductor process-based technologies and products. It has facilities in San Jose, California and Austin, Texas. SVTC provides development and production services for MEMS,...

 and Signet Solar

Signet Solar

Signet Solar was established in 2006 in Menlo Park, California. They produce photovoltaic modules, and have manufacturing plants in India and Germany. The modules are made using thin film silicon technology on large area glass substrates, referred to as Gen 8.5.-India:Signet Solar India, started...

. He has previously sat on the boards of International Sematech

SEMATECH

- Purpose :SEMATECH , a not-for-profit consortium, performs research and development to advance chip manufacturing. SEMATECH has broad engagement with various sectors of the R&D community, including chipmakers, equipment and material suppliers, universities, research institutes, and government...

, 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

University of Delhi

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 and a master's degree in physical chemistry from Kansas State University

Kansas State University

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