Mr. Kent Rossman
Senior Vice President Global Operations ASM
Mr. Rossman joined ASM in 2019 and served as the Corporate Vice President Global Spares & Services. He was appointed as an Executive Committee member of ASM on February 1, 2022. As of February 1, 2023, he was promoted to Senior Vice President Global Operations.
Kent has more than 28 years of experience in the semiconductor equipment industry. Before joining ASM, he had a 26-year tenure with Applied Materials. He started his career as a process development engineer, working on various dielectric CVD film applications, and served in various capacities – from sales, to product management, to leading technology-development teams. Within Applied, Kent rose to the level of vice president in charge of business management for chemical mechanical polishing and packaging, plating, and cleans product families, business development for new markets and alliances, and head of sourcing for the global services and spares group.
Kent has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota and holds 22 granted patents. He relocated from Silicon Valley, northern California, to Singapore in 2022. He is a US national.
Abstract Title
“Whack a Mole”: The New Supply Chain Fight
Presentation Abstract
The world has changed. COVID, climate change, geopolitics, local and global tensions, cyber-attacks, work life balance and working from home expectations, and other environmental changes make supply chain resiliency a “whack a mole” effort. Supply chain strategies are now changing at a break neck pace even if only to survive.
Can SEA secure a future as the world’s most resilient and sustainable supply chain contributor to the electronics industry? There has never been a more dynamic time for such an emergence in this industry.
At ASM, our view of where to manufacture, where to source, and with whom to source hasn’t been in such a dynamic state since early in the company’s founding over 70yrs ago. Primary drivers, these days, are supply chain resiliency related. The changes the world have seen over the past several years are now the new normal and the whack a mole supply chain survival reaction is now in a state of transformation under the assumption that the chaos we’ve been experiencing is here to stay and is marginally more predictable from these experiences.
We believe opportunities for value creation are abundant in SEA. Not only do we, but it’s clear so do many others from our customers, to our competitors, to our suppliers and their supply chains. This presentation covers what our new approaches are, and what opportunities arise in SEA if SEA can navigate in the way we believe fosters supply-chain certainty and policies that lead to enduring stability for our business, for the entire electronics business.