Tim Olson, CTO, Deca Technologies

Tim Olson has for many years been recognized and respected as a visionary in the semiconductor packaging industry. Having spent several years leading R&D with Amkor Technology Tim saw an opportunity to revolutionize the industry in wafer level packaging going outside of the customary thinking to adopt approaches having proved highly successful for SunPower in the solar industry, this led to the creation of Deca Technologies. His vision saw the growth in fan-out packaging and the need to address some of the key issues inherent in the incumbent approaches, M-Series fan-out packaging is the result of this and has been endorsed courtesy of the $111m investment by two of the industries giants.