Dr. Joseph XIE

Dr. Joseph XIE, aged 51, is the Executive Director of the third session of the Board and the President of the company.

Dr. Xie has been the President of the Company since 9 March 2011, and has been the Executive Director of the Board since 17 May 2011. Dr. Xie started his career as a researcher at Intel Corporation, Portland Technology Development Center, USA in 1988. Dr. Xie contributed to a solution to CMOS P-channel transistor-related instability from 1988 to 1995 and received an Intel Corporate Achievement Award and an Intel Best Conference Paper Award in 1990 with his team. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Xie took various roles as Department Manager of Customer Engineering and Technology Development Department and Marketing Director of Sales and Marketing Department in Chartered, Singapore. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Xie served as R&D Manager of Singapore MIT Alliance and was also the Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Singapore MIT Alliance Graduate Program. In June 2001, Dr. Xie joined SMIC, and took various management positions including Senior Director responsible for customer engineering, Special Assistant to CEO, Corporate Vice President of Business Development Center, Corporate Vice President for Sales and Marketing, Corporate Vice President of System on Chip Technology Development Center and Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Eurasia Business Unit during the period from June 2001 to March 2011. Dr. Xie has also been the Adjunct Professor of Microelectronics Department of Fudan University since 2001.

Dr. Xie received a Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1983. Dr. Xie received a Master's degree in Applied Physics, a Master's degree in Materials Engineering and a Doctor's degree in Solid State Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in USA in 1988. Dr. Xie also received an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from China Europe International Business School in 2007.