Oreste Donzella is a semiconductor industry veteran with over three decades of experience in semiconductor manufacturing and capital equipment companies. He is currently Senior Advisor at KLA, imec, KronosAI, Syenta, and AlixPartners, and he serves the board of Aion Silicon, Synergie CAD group, Unisers, and Infinitesima as independent director.
In his last full-time employment role at KLA, Oreste served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, leading key corporate growth initiatives and working closely with external stakeholders, such as financial investors and end customers in the broad electronics ecosystem.
Prior to his current role, Oreste was Executive Vice President, managing the Electronics, Packaging, and Component (EPC) business group at KLA Corporation, which included multiple product divisions, targeting growth opportunities in specialty semiconductors, packaging, printed circuit board, and display markets.
Previously, Oreste was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of KLA. In this role, he oversaw corporate marketing activities, market analytics and forecast, and company-wide collaborations with the broad electronics industry.
In the years before his CMO role, Oreste led the world-wide field applications engineering team, and was responsible for Customer Engagement projects and product portfolio optimization for wafer inspection platforms at KLA.
Previously, Oreste was Vice President and General Manager of the Surfscan and SWIFT divisions at KLA-Tencor. In these positions, he was responsible for the unpatterned wafer inspection, wafer geometry, and macro inspection business, overseeing new product development, sales, and marketing activities, customer support, and ultimately, division financial performance (P&L).
Prior to joining KLA in 1999, he spent almost seven years at Texas Instruments and Micron Technology, holding engineering and management positions in the process integration and yield enhancement departments.
Oreste holds various patents and is featured in several technical publications.
In 2020, Oreste was awarded with VLSI Semiconductor All Star for “charting KLA’s path into new markets related to More than Moore semiconductor technologies”.