Board of Directors

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  Haijun Zhao

  Chairman

   

  Dr. Haijun Zhao joined SMIC in October 2010 and was named Vice President of 300mm Operation Center and, later, Vice President of North Operations in September 2011.

  In April, 2013, he became Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Company. And in July, 2013, he also took the role of General Manager of Semiconductor Manufacturing North China (Beijing) Corporation (SMNC), the joint venture company established in Beijing and a subsidiary of the Company.

  On May 10, 2017, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC).

  Dr. Zhao received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and MBA from the University of Chicago. He has 25 years of experience in semiconductor operations and technology development. Dr. Zhao has also served as an independent director on the board of directors of Zhejiang Juhua Co., Ltd., a company which is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, since November 2016.

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  Sergio Galbiati

  Vice-Chairman

   

  Sergio completed his degree in Physics in 1976 at the University of Milan and began working in the semiconductor industry in 1977, in SGS-Thompson (current ST Microelectronics). In 1989 he moved to Texas Instruments, being part of the project to start-up the new Avezzano’s fab. He became responsible of the Operation in 1993. In 1998 he assumed the role of General Manager of the Abruzzo site, after the site acquisition by Micron Technology. In April 2010, Sergio becomes the Country Manager of Micron in Italy, which was present in five Italian regions with Operations, Business Units, R&D and support activities.

  Since May 2013 he is appointed as President of LFoundry Italy and Co-CEO. Sergio trusts in the Company Social Responsibility conceived as the mutual interaction between the company and the local area to foster the competitiveness of the area in the global arena. On the latest few years he accepted the challenge of covering the position of President of the local Industry Association (Confindustria) and he is the person that envisioned the creation of the ICT Innovation Pole today active in the area.

  Since July 2016 he is appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Board at LFoundry, a SMIC Company.

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  Günther Ernst

  CEO

   

  Günther Ernst completed his engineering degree at the University of Applied Science in Regensburg, Germany and began his professional career in the semiconductor industry as litho engineer at Hitachi. He has now more than 15 years experience in a variety of engineering and management positions. He is an effective leader with proven success in quality, cost-reduction, and lean management. His special process engineering expertise is in litho and CMP. He was driving continuous improvement programs for manufacturing methodology such as cycle time reduction (speed of the lots through the line) and introduction of one of the first automation systems for a 200mm fab. He is co-editor of several papers regarding advanced process control (APC).

  In 2008 he took over the responsibility of Vice President Operation at LFoundry, which includes production, engineering and facility. In 2011 he became member of the management board and holds the position of the Chief Operations Officer (COO). Since November 2012 he is appointed to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LFoundry.

  Since July 2016 he is appointed as CEO at LFoundry, a SMIC Company.

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  Jason Li

  Member of the board

   

  Mr. Li, joined SMIC in March 2013 as Vice President, and was promoted to Executive Vice President in November 2014. He is currently responsible for overseeing general administration, public affairs, legal and human resources. He has over 30 years of engineering, management and operations experience in the electronics and semiconductor industry. In his previous roles, he was the Deputy-Director Secretary of the President’s office of the China Electronic Information Industry Group, Deputy-Director Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, head of General Management Department at Beijing Hua Hong NEC IC Design Co. Ltd., President’s Assistant and head of administrative legal department of Beijing Hua Hong IC Design Co. Ltd., Board Secretary of Hua Hong Semiconductor Company (Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co. Ltd.), Director of the Board Office (Board Secretary) of Shanghai Hua Hong (Group) Co. Ltd., Executive Vice President, Board Member and CEO of Shanghai Belling Co. Ltd., Vice President of Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Association. Mr. Li holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an EMBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. He also serves as the Vice President of the China Electronic Information Association.

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  Bruce Yu

  Member of the board

   

  Bruce Yu, graduated from the Institute of Chemistry at Taiwan University. With more than 20 years of experience focus on semiconductor manufacturing, he began his career in IC industry at VIS (Vanguard International Semiconductor) as a process engineer in diffusion module.

  Sep. 2002, his job was rotated to process integration for DRAM products and became the department head of Memory process integration in 2005.

  In 2006, he joined the start-up team of Fab8 (12" fab in Shanghai), in charge of PIE department; in 2009, transferred to S1 (8" Mega fab in Shanghai) as deputy director and later promoted to fab director in 2011 and operation VP in 2013.

  Under his leadership, continuous improvements were accomplished on technology portfolio build up, quality enhancement, productivity breakthrough and operation cost control, which led S1 a true flagship Fab in SMIC and the largest Logic Fab in China.

  Effective on Aug. 1st, 2017, he was promoted to Senior Vice President and appointed as the Head of South Operations in SMIC.