Dr. Dong is a growth-minded business executive with extensive experience in leading changes, developing organizations and people, and driving innovations. He has been serving as the CEO of SK Siltron CSS, an innovative semiconductor materials company located in Bay City, Michigan, for the last four years. Before that, he was the general manager of the compound semiconductor solutions business unit (BU) at DuPont Electronics and Imaging. Before that role, he was the global marketing director for the semiconductor advanced packaging technologies BU at Dow Electronic Materials. This was a continuation of Dr. Dong’s work as a marketing leader at Dow since 2012. Before that, he was in a product development role with Dow and worked as an R&D scientist at Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials in both the US and Hong Kong. Dr. Dong’s education began at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, where he received both a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s degree in materials science. From there, Dr. Dong attended the University of Minnesota and received his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 2003. In 2019, he became an alum of Harvard Business School by completing a five-module executive education program on leadership development (PLD).