The CEO Magazine Asia — December 2017

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Armed with a passion for innovation and a love of helping people, Lavi Lev

is helping Ultra Clean Technology to break new ground.

WORDS SIMONE HENDERSON-SMART • IMAGES ULTRA CLEAN TECHNOLOGY

L

ong before he began his role as President

Asia for Ultra Clean Technology (UCT),

Lavi Lev was a leader in innovation.

Having completed his studies at the

Israel Institute of Technology (Technion)

and a five-year stint with National

Semiconductor, Lavi left his homeland and headed for

the world’s most famous innovation hub: Silicon Valley.

“I started my career in the chip-design industry,”

he says. “I worked for companies like Intel, where I led

the circuit design for the first Pentium microprocessor;

and Silicon Graphics and Sun Microprocessors, where

I designed the first UltraSparc microprocessor. I was also

involved in the design of the first Nintendo and Sony

PlayStation gaming consoles’ processors.” After that, Lavi

moved to computer-aided design, taking responsibility

for the US$1-billion electronic design automation

software at Cadence Design Systems, and from there