John Behnke Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Bad Ragaz, SG, CH

The FPS Product Line of INFICON is an industry leading provider of SMART/Industry 4.0 software solutions for the Semi industry. We have one of the most comprehensive Fab Digital Twins available today which enables our advanced optimized fabwide scheduling and other intelligent manufacturing software solutions. Our acquisition by INFICON provides us access.

• Novati Technologies offers contract manufacturing and technology development services with a focus on the commercialization and production of high value next generation products. Novati is the only Trusted Foundry that.
• Joined Novati as a consultant in August 2013, led a successful OpEX cost reduction effort that resulted in decreased quarterly spend of >15% in 9 months - allowing Novati to become profitable for the first time. I also.
• Became Novati's COO in March 2014 focused on accelerating growth and profitability by identifying and executing modifications to business processes and transforming the fab from its legacy business model rooted in R&D.
• Became President in Jan 2016, reporting to the CEO of Tezzaron, its parent company. Added corporate discipline from Board down. Focused resources on technical needs of target markets to rapidly deliver improved product.
• Focus broadened mid 2016 to include raising working capital for Novati and Tezzaron. Successfully established Novati Technologies as a separate LLC and raised funds from a Tier One Bank. Became the Chairman, CEO &.
• After 12 consecutive profitable quarters our executive team led the successful sale of Novati Technologies to one of its strategic customers Skorpios Technologies in October 2017. This transaction is a win-win-win for.

• An executive general manager who leveraged a rich mix of strategic planning, engineering, product development, operations, and sales & marketing experience in large and small companies. Team based “listener” with.
• Corporate Strategic Planning-One Page Strategic Plan development-IPO preparation
• Business Model/Canvas Generation -Core value proposition identification
• Process/Product development & optimization -Product channel(s) & key partnership needs-Customer Empathy Map generation -New markets/products from existing capabilities
• Change management / “Turn-a-rounds”-Financially driven reorg's-Benchmarking & analytics driven goals
• Operational Excellence-Cost reduction, yield and cycle time improvement-P&L driven Continuous Improvement-Industrial Engineering specializing in Automated Decision Support

San Jose, CA, US

• Responsible for Semi BU (>75% of company revenue) including existing technical customer program management; application, hardware, and platform development and new account technical support.
• Leveraged Highly Productive Combinatorial (HPC) technology to realize rapid, unique and enabling solutions to many complex semiconductor technology problems.
• Managed customer accounts with 100% renewal rate and achieved first product based royalties.
• Identified new market opportunity for existing program IP and created two new revenue streams.
• Restructured teams to improve operational efficiency and contribution margin.
• Increased government business to include direct prime contract.

San Jose, CA, US

• Quickly ramped sales that had stagnated under multiple traditional sales leaders. Doubled annual sales from 2009 to 2011, & doubled backlog enabling the company to go public in Nov of 2011.
• Member of executive team that prepared IPO Roadshow under the direction of Jerry Weissman.
• Identified logic tech new market opportunity and created a dedicated account team to exploit it.
• Leveraged prior technology, operations, and mfg experience to create systematic sales approach & deployed processes to bring discipline and improved forecasting to the sales process.
• Managed Global Sales with offices in Europe, Taiwan, and Japan. Closed numerous large multi-year, multi-element contracts which included extremely complex IP ownership and royalty terms.
• Oversaw outside marketing firm activities including website redevelopment efforts to address investors and key growth Clean Energy Markets, major event planning, and press releases.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Responsible for Spansion's Sub-micron Development Center (SDC) in Sunnyvale CA. which developed and transferred to manufacturing advanced NOR and NAND FLASH memory technologies. The only fully capable 300mm R&D line.
• Completely transformed R&D model reducing development time by 35%. Also created alternative R&D business scenarios which were used to guide post-chapter 11 restructuring.
• Revamped technology transfer model to “copy smart” resulting in 60% faster yield attainment.
• Started benchmarking/BKM pgm to reduce world-wide ops costs & enable a 15% increase in capacity.
• Leveraged supplier relationships and win-win focus to create strategic development partnerships.
• Responsible for advanced process development team. Drove common unit module development to reduce development costs, time, and manufacturing difficulty.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Chartered by CEO to apply New Product Deployment methods to upcoming key wireless product line. Managed Product Engineering staff of ~70 in 4 domestic and offshore locations.
• Reduced product dev time by 25% while doubling the number of new product families. New products enabled significant wireless market share gains. Lowered Product Engineering labor expense by 22%.
• Responsible for customer roadmaps and managing product launch partnerships.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Assigned by CEO to lead corporate “crisis” team to rapidly qualify first key wireless product built with a new memory technology. Acted as internal “consultant” and took assignment in Sunnyvale. Identified.
• Led 7 by 24 cross-functional team to beat six-month qualification deadline enabling Wireless BU revenue increase of 42% in < 3 quarters.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsible for factory conversion from Logic to Memory, manufacturing, cycle time reduction, engineering, yield improvement, budgeting, cost reduction, and capital planning. Staff of ~975, operating budget of.
• Reduced staffing, increased output and cut operating expenses to deliver a 50% wafer cost reduction. Recognized by ISMI & UC Berkeley as only successful Memory conversion in US history.
• Sponsored benchmarking initiative conducted by UC Berkeley to determine “World-Class” Flash memory fab performance levels. Established fab conversion targets and targets for each key indices.
• Completely modified WIP management philosophy and approach to support multiple products and processes. Utilized new real-time decision rules to create a “Virtually Automated” factory, enabling best-in-class Sematech.
• Established a Best-Known-Method (BKM) initiative to drive cross-site operational excellence, which led to multiple Sematech highest tool utilization benchmarks.
• Managed multiple technology transitions with emphasis on capital reuse to lower costs..