SIA STAFF : George M. Scalise

George M. Scalise is president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), with offices in San Jose, CA, Washington, D.C. and Beijing, China.

The SIA is the leading voice for the semiconductor industry and has represented U.S. semiconductor companies since 1977. Collectively, the chip industry employs a domestic workforce of 233,000 people.  The focus of the SIA is technology research, public policy, environment, safety and health, and industry statistics.

Scalise came to the SIA from Apple Computer, where he served as executive vice president of operations. Prior to that, he held executive management positions at National Semiconductor, Maxtor Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Motorola Semiconductor.

He was a founding member and Chairman of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, an industry-funded organization that provides funds for pre-competitive semiconductor research at American universities.

Scalise currently serves on President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as well as numerous boards, including Cadence Design Systems, MindTree Consulting, and Intermolecular. He has also served on the boards at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco where he was Chairman and was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, SEMATECH, Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Bay Area Economic Forum, Dubai Silicon Oasis, iSuppli Corporation and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Economic Task Force on Japan.  He served on the advisory committees at the Purdue University School of Engineering, Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.  He was named a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of Purdue University in 2002. He also chaired the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy.