Juergen Hoefler Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale , Ca, Us

Business Consulting ServicesWe specialize in expert consulting services, including R&D and Pilot Line process reviews, best practice studies, technology due diligence, and external reviews of strategic planning. Our team assists both startups and established companies with targeted, limited engagements of up to six months. We deliver actionable insights and strategic recommendations to drive growth, optimize operations, and ensure successful project outcomes.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Building a Development team and a Pilot Line to prototype new battery technologies

Geneva, Switzerland, Ch

Integrated newly acquired technology and team into STDrove development of quantum dot image sensor technology

Cupertino, California, Us

Built technical ops team for breakthrough display technologyLed materials development for novel image sensors

Cupertino, Ca, Us

Scouted and identified promising spin-outs and investment targetsProvided interim executive management for companies in the energy, nanotechnology, MEMS, optics and electronics sectors

Built company for the commercialization of highly effective stem cell treatments with proven efficacy and manufacturability in the veterinary space

Milpitas, Ca, Us

● Led R&D and commercialization of high color-gamut quantum dot displays, of high-performance anodes for Li-ion batteries (spun out and funded as separate company), and of two medical applications (in Computer Aided Surgery, sold to a major medical equipment maker, and an FDA-approved hemostat)

Us

● Led development and commercialized breakthrough laser technology (Necsel) for display applications; acquired by Ushio● Built mfg. operations (Epi, Wafer Fab, Packaging, Test) in-house & transferred technology to OEMs● Architected sale of multi-million-dollar Sunnyvale wafer fab facility in record time (5 weeks from first solicitation to deal closure)

Livermore, Ca, Us

● Led the design and construction of a $50M Silicon/MEMS state-of-the-art fab in record time below budget (design began in Q1’04; qualification by Intel and Samsung and high-volume release in Q3’05)● Grew fab engineering team during a time of rapid expansion in a fast-growing (2x revenue increase year-over-year) MEMS/Si wafer probe card technology company servicing the semiconductor industry

● Drove a technically complex product from concept through product development to customer qualification; acquired by Finisar

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

● Ramped wafer fabrication line output 5x, at the time Agilent became world’s largest VCSEL component manufacturer

● Technical lead for Electronic Signals and Signs business unit, which succeeded in spearheading the conversion of traffic sign market from incandescent to LED technology and introduction of LEDs into automotive market● Responsible for offshore high-volume LED manufacturing ● Process, equipment and product engineering roles. Designed and laid out major wafer fab expansion● Motorola University certified cycle-time trainer for 4 HP divisions

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

● Research areas: Chemical synthesis, sintering mechanisms of nanomaterials

Champaign, Il, Us

● Research areas: Synthesis , structural, kinetic and mechanical properties of diverse nanocrystalline materials

Lemont, Il, Us

● Research areas: nanomaterials and amorphous films

Postdoc

Ph.D., M.S., Materials Science