Mr. Brian TAN
Regional President (SEA) (SEMI SEA Regional Advisory Board Member), Applied Materials
Mr. Brian Tan is the Corporate Vice President, Applied Materials Inc. and Regional President, Applied Materials Southeast Asia. He oversees the company’s operations and strategy in the Southeast Asia in helping to build strategic partnerships across the private and public sectors as well as enabling customers’ success across Asia.
He has significant contributions to the semiconductor industry and played a pivotal role in establishing Singapore as a key R&D, manufacturing and customer support hub. Under his leadership, he strengthened collaboration between Applied Materials and research institutions where he oversaw the establishment of joint labs with Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and academia with the establishment of a corporate lab with the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Furthermore, he was elected to the board of Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) since 2018 and is appointed as chairman in 2024. he is also a member of the Economic Strategy Review (ESR) committee for Global Competitiveness and sits on the National Environment Agency (NEA) Board. He serves on the Advisory Board of National University of Singapore (NUS) College of Design & Engineering (CDE).
He has been appointed as a member of the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks International Advisory Board on Science, Technology and Innovation (VSIP IAB) in 2025. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore.
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