Trung Tri Doan

Trung Tri Doan is founder, Chairman and CEO of SemiLEDs Corporation.  He has over 25 years of semiconductor and management experience.

Mr. Doan held various management and executive positions at companies such as Intel, Honeywell, Philips and Micron where he had work from 1988 to 2003 with the last position as Vice President of Process Development.  He was responsible for worldwide technology development and Pilot Development Fab, as well as advanced packaging for Micron Technology, the only remaining US based low cost producer of DRAM, SRAM and Flash memory commodity products.  He also had served as President and CEO of Jusung Engineering, Inc., a major semiconductor/LCD equipment company in Korea.  Prior founding SemiLEDs, Mr. Doan was the Corporate Vice President of Applied Global Services (AGS) Product group at Applied Materials, Inc.

He is an inventor/co-inventor of over 250 patents with many pending.  He was named by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as one of the most prolific inventors from 1988 to 1998.  He has authored numerous technical papers and has chaired and given keynote addresses at numerous industry’s conferences.  He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Advanced Energy Industries, a publicly held manufacturer of power conversion and control systems.  He was also a Director of Nutool, a semiconductor technology company (acquired by ASM International), and a director of EMCO, a publicly held manufacturer of advanced flow control devices and systems (acquired by Advanced Energy Industries in 2003).

Mr. Doan graduated with honors from University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1979, and Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1981.