Majid Ghafghaichi

Majid Ghafghaichi was born in Tabriz, Iran and immigrated to the United States in May of 1961.

He received his Electrical Engineering Degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in May of 1965, and attended Columbia University for graduate work. He worked for IBM from August of 1965 until June of 1981. During his tenure at IBM, Mr. Ghafghaichi held several technical and managerial positions
in the field of Semiconductor Product Design and Development. He holds 42 Patents and an Outstanding Innovation Award in this field. His last position at IBM was as Functional Manager.

Mr. Ghafghaichi was at Data General Corporation from 1981 to 1988 and his last position was General Manager of Semiconductor Division.

Mr. Ghafghaichi founded and is currently president of Accurel Systems International Corporation in Sunnyvale, California, which pioneered FIB Technology used in editing semiconductors chips after manufacturing. In addition, Mr. Ghafghaichi is the President and CEO of Nano Measurements Inc. and Picotest Inc.