Dr. Seungho Pi, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Seungho Pi joined SK Hynix after acquiring Ph.D. degree in material science and engineering in 1995. He participated and led many important projects that made SK Hynix overcome the dimensional limitation. Especially unique 3D structure of NAND with excellent extendibility and Fin Cell structure of DRAM started with his team’s achievements. He moved to SK siltron in 2021 to improve productivity and quality. Since he joined SK siltron, he led over 30 percent increase in capacity in 2 years.
Seungho Pi graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, with a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering in 1989 and he got master’s and Ph. D degree from KAIST (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) In 1991 and 1995 respectively. He obtained around 100 patents from several countries. (U.S., Korea, Japan, etc.)
Ilgoo Jeong
Chief Financial Officer
Ilgoo Jeong serves as SK siltron CSS’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Jeong began his career as a financial analyst and fund manager. He joined SK innovation as a manager in 2012. From there, he became a project leader for the holding company, SK, Inc. In 2018, Mr. Jeong took a role as team leader in SK materials. In August 2020, he moved to SK siltron and joined the newly acquired SiC wafer business, becoming a corporate officer for SK siltron css.
Mr. Jeong graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, with a bachelor’s degree in general business administration and management in 2005.
Dr. Edward Sanchez, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Sanchez has over 25 years’ experience in the Silicon Carbide semiconductor industry. In the early 2000s, he worked as a senior research scientist for Sterling Semiconductor in Danbury, Connecticut. After a few years, Dr. Sanchez transferred to Dow Corning, where he worked for 12 years in R&D, Manufacturing and Quality, finishing there as the Process Integration Manager. From there, Dr. Sanchez became the R&D Manager for Dow’s Compound Semiconductor group. The business moved to Dupont and Dr. Sanchez added the site leader to his responsibilities. He joined SK siltron css as part of the SK acquisition of DuPont’s compound semiconductor solutions group as the Vice President of Operations and Technology. He currently serves as SK siltron CSS’s Chief Technology Officer.
Dr. Sanchez graduated in 1995 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science. From there, he attended Carnegie Mellon University and received his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 2001.
Edward Chen
Vice President Commercial
Edward Chen has 20 years’ experience in technical sales and marketing with the most recent 12 years dedicated to Silicon Carbide. Mr. Chen began his power semiconductor career at Power Integrations as a technical sales engineer before advancing to regional manager. In 2012, he took on the role of Director Global Power Sales at Cree Power, now known as Wolfspeed. Mr Chen led an international sales team focused on SiC Schottky diodes, MOSFETs, and modules and grew revenues over 4x. In 2019, he joined GE Aerospace as Senior Director of Sales for Silicon Carbide to lead SiC device and module sales and marketing focusing on aerospace, military, and industrial applications.
Edward Chen graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering in 2004.