Dan Tracy, Ph.D. —Senior Director of Techcet — covers Sputtering Targets and Deposition Materials, and coordinates and manages Techcet’s Market Research Activities. He has over 25 years experience in the electronics industry covering supply chain topics related to semiconductor packaging, thin films, process equipment, and materials. He was the senior director of the Industry Research & Statistics group at SEMI, and prior to that work for Rose Associates covering electronic materials and for National Semiconductor as a Packaging Engineer. His Ph.D. is in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, and his B.S in Chemistry from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.