HOLON, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optimal+, a leader in manufacturing intelligence solutions for the semiconductor industry, today announced the addition of three strategic new hires in Asia Pacific, North America and Israel to support its rapidly expanding customer base. The new executives will provide Optimal+ customers with a wealth of experience in enterprise big data analytics solutions and customer services.
Optimal+ delivers unprecedented visibility into the global semiconductor supply chain combined with real-time, big data analytics that enable companies to drive significant and measureable improvements in manufacturing operations. In response to the growing customer adoption of Optimal+ around the world, the company has more than doubled in size over the past two years. The company’s key additions strengthen its leadership in research and development, as well as U.S. and Asia-Pacific operations. The new Optimal+ team members are:
Uzi Baruch, Vice President of R&D – Uzi’s deep cross-geography experience in all aspects of the product development lifecycle, including R&D, Architecture, QA and operations, brings a keen understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the full cycle of manufacturing. As the recent Vice-President of NICE Systems Ltd, Uzi and his team of more than 150 engineers employed big data analytics to help define the strategy for next generation solutions. As Vice-President of R&D for Optimal+, Uzi will bring his in-depth expertise in product development lifecycle and data analytics to deliver solutions that will continue to further enhance the technology leadership that Optimal+ delivers for semiconductor manufacturing operations.
Jean-Emmanuel Perdereau, Vice President of Operations Asia – Jean-Emmanuel has more than 25 years of experience in global semiconductor manufacturing, most recently as Vice President, Test Operations & Corporate Test R&D for STATS ChipPAC in Singapore. Residing in Asia for nearly 20 years, Jean-Emmanuel is a hands-on executive with in-depth knowledge of all the Optimal+ solutions from his tenure at STATS ChipPAC. At Optimal+, Jean-Emmanuel will manage the service organization that supports the foundries and OSATs that drive the Optimal+ data highway infrastructure, support semiconductor companies in the Asia-Pacific market and will help to shape the company’s product roadmap through his understanding of the semiconductor industry and the Asia-Pacific region.
Alon Sagie, Vice President Operations United States – Alon has more than 15 years of experience in creating world class customer-focused service organizations. As Senior Director for Applied Materials Global Services, Alon had worldwide P&L responsibility for more than a $150 million service business in process diagnostics and control. In his new role at Optimal+, Alon will manage the Optimal+ Operations organization in North America, responsible for supporting 5 of the top 10 fabless companies.
"Uzi, Alon and Jean-Emmanuel bring a tremendous wealth of experience to Optimal+’s growing worldwide operations and will enable us to create better products and to service our expanding global customer base,” said Danny Glotter, CEO and Founder at Optimal+. “With their collective backgrounds, we can continue to deliver manufacturing intelligence to solve our customers’ biggest supply chain challenges.”
To learn more about Optimal+ job opportunities, please visit www.optimalplus.com/careers.
About Optimal+
Optimal+ is a global provider of Manufacturing Intelligence software solutions, enabling any semiconductor company to seamlessly aggregate, organize and act upon the global manufacturing and test data generated across their internal and external supply chains to measurably improve yield, quality and productivity. The company’s real-time, big data analytics solutions are deployed in every major foundry and OSAT currently serving the semiconductor ecosystem, processing over 20 billion chips every year on behalf of its customers and is ushering in an era of unprecedented supply chain visibility that translates into strong and measurable ROI.
For more information, visit www.optimalplus.com.
