Ivo J. Raaijmakers

Dr. Raaijmakers is currently Chief Technology Officer and Corporate VP of R&D of ASM International NV (“ASM”).

He started his career in 1982 at the Philips Research Labs in the Netherlands. He moved to the USA in 1988, where he held various positions in the area of semiconductor technology development and R&D management at Philips, Novellus and Applied Materials. Dr. Raaijmakers joined ASM in 1996 in its ASM America subsidiary, and was appointed CTO in 1999, based out of ASM’s headquarter back in the Netherlands.

Dr. Raaijmakers has authored over 50 technical publications, has been invited as a speaker to many conferences, and is an inventor on over 100 issued US patents. He holds M.Sc. (“Ir”) (1982) and Ph.D. (1988) degrees in Physics from “Eindhoven University of Technology” (the Netherlands), specializing in Plasma Physics and Materials Science.