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Rabat-Salé, Morocco (Maghreb), 05/26/2010 - The Chief Executive Officer of the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), announced the nomination of Dr. Jihad Kiwan as Managing Director of the Technology Development Center for Microelectronics of MAScIR.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), Mr. Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah announced the nomination of Dr. Jihad Kiwan as Managing Director of the Technology Development Center for Microelectronics of MAScIR (TDC-Micro).
Announcing the nomination, Mr. Benmokhtar said:
‘I am delighted to announce the nomination of Dr. Kiwan as the Managing Director of the Technology Development Center for Microelectronics. Dr. Kiwan brings a strong network in his field and over 30 years of executive management experience in the semiconductor manufacturing and capital equipment industries. I expect new opportunities to arise for the mutual benefit of MAScIR and the Moroccan scientific community’.
‘I also wish to express my appreciation to Dr. Natasha Healey for the work she accomplished and the projects she initiated over the past year at MAScIR’
‘I am very pleased to join the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research’ remarked Dr. Kiwan. ‘There are many opportunities for future achievement and I look forward to working with my new team to seize them’
Prior to joining MAScIR, Dr. Kiwan served as Chief Technology Officer at Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSOA) as well as managing director of Dubai Circuit Design (DCD). Prior to that, he was President and CEO of ASYNTIS GmbH, the leading German based supplier of plasma etch equipment for semiconductor backend manufacturing. He served as President and CEO of a Nasdaq listed corporation, Trikon Technologies, Inc, a provider of semiconductor capital equipment for Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD). Dr. Kiwan served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Amkor Wafer Fabrication Services and held various executive management positions at Hewlett Packard (HP) and SCI Systems, Inc.
The Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (mascir.com) is a non-for-profit foundation which aims at promoting excellence in research and technology development in Morocco in order to generate wealth and jobs through the integration of market-oriented research and advanced technologies in order to produce intellectual property and create spin-offs in the areas of Nanotechnology, biotechnology, microelectronics, energy & environment, and ICTs.
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