Executive Team
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- Strong semiconductor background
- Deep process & equipment technology expertise
- Forward thinkers; know how to put in place safeguards for cyclical businesses
- Consistent track record of success
It is no accident that we put together a very experienced semiconductor team. Signet's CEO, Rajeeva Lahri started his background in solar during his thesis in thin-film with amorphous silicon at The State University of New York in 1980. Our management team has considerable experience of the cyclical nature of the semiconductor market, where driving 15%-20% per year cost reductions were expected. They fundamentally believe that the solar industry will have similar characteristics as the industry drives to grid parity.
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Dr. Rajeeva Lahri
CEO & Founder
Rajeeva Lahri has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, focusing primarily on technology and operations. Most recently, Rajeeva was CTO and Executive VP of Worldwide Operations at Intersil Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high performance analog semiconductors. He was key in transforming Intersil into a high performance analog product company with significant improvement in operating performance. Prior to Intersil Corporation, Dr. Lahri had served in many operational and technology leadership positions: Senior VP of Technology and Operations at Elantec (acquired by Intersil Corp), Deputy CTO of Philips Semiconductors, and Senior VP of Corporate Technology for VLSI Technology Inc (acquired by Philips). Prior to those, he held various management and technical positions at National Semiconductor and Hewlett Packard. Dr. Lahri holds a MS degree in Physics and a Master of Technology degree in Materials Science, both from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. In addition, Dr. Lahri holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, New York. Heis a charter member of TiE, and a founder of Fab Owners Association (FOA; www.waferfabs.org), a forum for semiconductor fabrication owners to discuss and act on specific semiconductor manufacturing issues in a cooperative environment. |
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Mr. Gunter Ziegenbalg
Managing Director, Signet Solar GmbH
Mr. Ziegenbalg joins Signet Solar from ZMD AG, a leading supplier of analog mixed-signal application-specific integrated circuits, where he was Executive Vice President of Foundry Operations since September 2002. He served as the President of ZMD America, Inc. from its founding in1996. He has held several management positions at ZMD, in IC design, technology development, manufacturing and technical marketing. Prior to that Mr. Ziegenbalg worked as a nuclear physicist at the Nuclear Research Center Dresden, Rossendorf. He has a Masters degree in Nuclear Physics from University of Technology, Dresden, and an Executive MBA Degree from Pepperdine University. Mr. Ziegenbalg is a founding member of Fab Owners Association (FOA). |
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Dr. Bijan Moslehi
Vice President, Engineering
Dr. Moslehi has over 22 years of operational and R&D experience in the semiconductor industry, covering chip manufacturing process and equipment, and wafer fab technology. He most recently was CTO of The Noblemen Group, an investment banking, strategic advisory, and business development firm. Dr. Moslehi has held senior technology and marketing management and engineering positions at several semiconductor manufacturing companies (Philips/VLSI Technology, Hewlett-Packard, National/Fairchild Semiconductor) and capital equipment manufacturers (KLA-Tencor, Applied Materials and Mattson). Dr. Moslehi holds a Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) and two Master's degrees (Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science), all from Stanford University. Currently, he serves on the Advisory Boards of several Silicon Valley high tech companies. |
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Dr. Karl-Heinz Stegemann
Vice President, Technology
Dr. Stegemann joins Signet Solar from ZMD, AG, Dresden, Germany where he was Vice President for Process Development and Integration. At ZMD, he has held several management positions, working on complex projects for DRAM, analog CMOS and optical technologies. Dr. Stegemann has a deep background in thin films and holds various patents in the areas of SOI, DRAM memory cells, special oxidation and deposition technologies. He has been involved in numerous Europe-wide research projects developing specialized semiconductor technologies. He currently serves as the Chair for R&D project approval committee at the European Union. Dr. Stegemann holds a Ph.D. degree in Semiconductor Physics and Laser Annealing from Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany. |
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Mr. Bruce Horn
Chief Financial Officer
Bruce Horn has over 20 years of accounting, finance and management experience with public and private high-technology companies. Mr. Horn joins Signet Solar from Strata Light Communications where he was CFO, which was acquired by Opnext in early 2009. Prior to Strata Light, he held the position of CFO and Treasurer at Oplink Communications, Inc., which he joined and took public in 2000 raising over $280 million. Prior to Oplink Mr. Horn was CFO and VP of Finance at Larscom, Inc., which he took public in 1996 raising over $95 million. He has been instrumental in transitioning high-growth start-up companies into mature structured entities, and has been responsible for accounting, finance, human resources, information technologies, financial planning and analysis, financial controls, SEC reporting, strategic transactions, investor relations and debt and equity financings. He has a BA in accounting from the University of Northern Iowa and a MBA in finance from California State University. |
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Mr. Haresh Patel
Strategic Business Advisor
Haresh Patel has more than twenty five years of experience driving high revenue growth through sales at both emerging and established electronics technology companies, including Agilent Technology, PMC-Sierra and Texas Instruments. Most recently, Mr. Patel served as Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing with HelioVolt Corporation, a leading CIGS-based Solar Cell Technology company. Prior to HelioVolt, he served for three years as Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing at WJ Communications, Inc, where he drove growth for company's RFID and wireless infrastructure product lines. Mr. Patel was previously vice president of world wide sales and marketing for Agilent's $2B Semiconductor Products Group. He also served as Vice President of World wide sales at PMC Sierra Inc. Additionally,Mr. Patel spent more than ten years in senior sales and product management positions at Fujitsu Microelectronics America and Texas Instruments. He holds an AEA executive MBA from Stanford University Business School and a BS in EE from the University of Notre Dame. |
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