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Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 5)
Sass continues his discussion of technology innovation inside applied, and highlights the importance of experience. He also takes us into a discussion on innovation and conviction, which he believes can lead to success. SM: In that process you still needed to act a bit like a venture capitalist and decide which products go forward and
Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 4)
Sass has displayed a consistent and perpetual ability to introduce extremely successful product lines at Applied Materials. Here we discuss the methodologies he used to establish the environment of innovation and product development. Very few companies have been able to internally innovate after reaching a certain scale. Many have perfected the art of M&A to
Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 3)
Sass continues his discussion of his early career. Of note is his constant involvement in innovation, from Bell Labs to Intel he was consistently working on developing emerging technologies which would come to dominate the marketplace. His talent for building new product based on new technologies, and scaling them into market leading businesses is at
Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 2)
Here Sass discusses his educational background, with a particular emphasis placed on his High School education which he received in Israel. Additionally, he covers the early years of his career. The disparities he notes between High School education in the United States and other parts of the world is another item of interest. In many
Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 1)
Dr. Sass Somekh recently took the time to share with me insights gathered during his phenomenal career. After some initial work with Bell Labs and Intel, he spent 23 years with Applied Materials prior to becoming the President of Novellus. At Applied, he perfected a process of enabling innovation to coexist in a large company
