Semefab

Mr. Allan James

Joint Managing Director. Board Member since 1986

Allan co-founded Semefab in 1986 and is joint Managing Director of Semefab.

Allan is also a co-founder and director of Detector and Sensor Technologies Ltd. and is an experienced semiconductor engineer and entrepreneur well versed in managing companies with high capitally intensive asset bases.

Allan is a board member of both the Scottish Micro and Opto Electronics Team (MOET) and the Scottish Consortium for Integrated Microphotonics (SCIMPS).

Allan's career spans semiconductor process development at Mullard, production engineering at ITT Corporation, technology development & transfer at GEC & Marconi and operations management at General Instruments. When General Instruments retrenched to the USA in 1985, Allan and a nucleus of colleagues founded Semefab in the 'redundant' semiconductor plant with the assistance of Semelab Plc.

Allan received a 2.1 Honours degree in Physics from Southampton University (1973).