Dr. Saifi USMANI

Dr. Saifi Usmani joined SEMI in July 2025 and leads the global industry sustainability programs at SEMI.  Our flagship climate and energy initiatives include, respectively, the Semiconductor Climate Consortium and the Energy Collaborative.  SEMI has taken the lead to launch these collaboration platforms with an objective to enable supply of abundant clean electricity while driving GHG emissions reductions by cross-leveraging ongoing initiatives and collective knowledge across the semiconductor value-chain.  

Before joining SEMI, Saifi was the Head of the Planarization Business at EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany.  As P&L owner of a significantly large business with major operations in Taiwan, Korea and the US, Saifi led his business to record growth in sales and profitability by focusing the business strategy and innovation on the fast-growing opportunities in AI chip production; enabled by a transparent B2B collaboration model to drive innovation; propelled by machine learning driven, disruptive, cost-efficient and sustainable supply chain; supported by efficient capital and operational management.

Saifi Usmani holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stony Brook University and a B. Tech. from IIT Kanpur, India.  He started his career as a process engineer in IC production at Motorola Inc. followed by diverse global roles in the electronic chemicals industry at DA NanoMaterials and Versum Materials. Saifi has led technical, sales and marketing teams across the US and Asia, to achieve significant sales growth at leading edge IC customers by inculcating a culture of responsiveness, trust and innovation across the organizations combined with a keen understanding of relationship drivers, a strong business acumen and a “hands-on,” tenacious disposition. Saifi has also lived in Taiwan as the GM for DA NanoMaterials in Asia, where he led the significant growth of the Taiwan foundry revenues by enabling a local ecosystem including the Asia HQ and Apps Lab near the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan.

Outside of work, Saifi enjoys traveling with family and handyman projects at his house.

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