Hall Of Fame
Anton Hofmeister
Anton Hofmeister
Group VP, GM R&D and Strategy for Analog and MEMS Sub- Groups Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group
STMicroelectronics
Anton Hofmeister is Group Vice President and General Manager of R&D and Strategy for ST’s Analog and MEMS Sub-Groups and has held this position since December 2021. He has also served as Managing Director of ST’s German subsidiary since 2016.
Hofmeister joined Thomson Semiconductors (a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics) as a marketing engineer in 1986. He subsequently held management positions in product marketing, key account management, and corporate strategic marketing.
In 1997, Hofmeister was appointed Director of a System R&D team in San Diego, USA, and became Director of the Print Head Business Unit in 2000. In 2005, he was appointed General Manager of the Microfluidics Division and has broadened his responsibility with the MEMS Microactuator Division in 2015, managing ST’s Fluidic MEMS products and MEMS components used in a variety of applications in Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Medical, and Printing markets.
Hofmeister has previously served as a board member of the Singapore-based Molecular Diagnostics company Veredus Laboratories. In August 2021 he joined the Governing Council of the MEMS&Sensor Industry Group (MSIG) at SEMI.
Anton Hofmeister was born in Munich in 1961 and he graduated with a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Munich.
Alex Gu
Coralie Gallis graduated as a PhD in Materials Sciences from Paris University and has an engineering degree in Physic-Chemistry. Coralie has worked for 20 years in the semiconductor field, holding various positions in different companies from software designer, Intelligent Specialist, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. During her career, she developed the business for various domains such as BioMedical electronics, wearable electronics for healthcare, sport, wellness and Food industry. Since 2016, she is based in Silicon Valley, California and manages the Strategic Industrial Partnerships for the North American Market for CEAtech, a French technology research center.
Michelle M. Bourke received a B.Sc. degree in Optoelectronics and Laser Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., in 1993. Subsequently she joined the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), where she worked on advanced processing methods for GaAs/AlGaAs optoelectronic devices. In 1997 Michelle moved to the semiconductor capital equipment industry as an etch process engineer. In 1999 she moved into Product Marketing where she has continued to develop her career. Today Michelle is with Lam Research Corporation as the Senior Strategic Marketing Director in the Customer Support Business Group.
Dr. Mary Ann Maher received her Ph.D. from Caltech in 1989 in the area of semiconductor device modeling. At Tanner Research she began the simulation and modeling group and launched Tanner’s T-Spice analog circuit simulator product. As Director of Advanced Products, she brought to market Tanner’s MEMS Pro microsystem and MCM Pro multi-chip module and packaging design tool. Moving to MEMSCAP, she became the company’s CTO and the General Manager and Executive Vice President of the Design Automation Business Unit. In 2004, she started SoftMEMS, LLC, the maker of the popular microsystems design tools – MEMS Pro and MEMS Xplorer, where she serves as CEO.
