yieldHUB is built and supported by professionals with deep experience across wafer fabrication, wafer probe, final test, OSAT collaboration, and semiconductor yield engineering. Our team combines hands-on semiconductor manufacturing expertise with scalable software architecture to deliver production-grade yield management software trusted in mission-critical environments.
Headquartered in Ireland with team members across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia, yieldHUB supports semiconductor manufacturers operating continuous production across global manufacturing networks.
Semiconductor engineering leadership
yieldHUB’s leadership team brings decades of semiconductor industry experience spanning product engineering, test development, yield optimization, and high-volume manufacturing operations. Their combined expertise guides the platform’s technical direction and ensures yieldHUB remains aligned with real semiconductor production challenges.
John O’Donnell
Founder and CEO
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Founded yieldHUB in 2005 to address structural inefficiencies in semiconductor yield and test data management
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More than 30 years of semiconductor industry experience across product and test engineering
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Leads global strategy, product direction, and long-term platform architecture
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Early contributor to AEC-Q100 standard development
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Former engineering leader at Analog Devices across test engineering, product engineering, and yield improvement
Jerome Auza
VP of Engineering
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Leads global engineering strategy and platform architecture for yieldHUB
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More than 25 years of semiconductor and software engineering experience
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Former engineering leader at Analog Devices across test engineering, product engineering, and yield improvement
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Deep expertise in high-volume ATE environments and semiconductor data infrastructure
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Oversees engineering operations in Asia supporting global production environments
Kevin Robinson
VP of Operations
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Leads global operations, program delivery, and customer execution
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More than 22 years of semiconductor experience across product and test engineering
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Former senior leader at Diodes Incorporated and Zetex driving yield improvement and test transformation programs
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Expertise in yield optimization, test strategy, capital efficiency, and production ramp management
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Oversees structured onboarding, customer delivery, and global operational scalability
Senior semiconductor specialists
Our senior specialists work directly with semiconductor engineering teams to solve complex yield, test, and manufacturing challenges. With backgrounds spanning foundries, IDMs, and fabless companies, they help customers deploy yieldHUB effectively and turn production data into actionable engineering insight.
Carl S. Moore
Yield Management Specialist
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40+ years of semiconductor industry experience
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Former Executive Director of Test Systems Development at Maxim Integrated
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Former Engineering Director at MEMSIC
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Extensive expertise in analog, RF, mixed-signal, and high-volume semiconductor production
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Supports customers with structured yield analysis, test strategy, and manufacturing performance improvement
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IEEE Life Senior Member
Michael Clarke
Director of Customer Success
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Leads semiconductor customer success initiatives across Europe and Israel
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Background in product engineering and quality engineering within semiconductor manufacturing
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Works directly with engineering teams to accelerate time to value and improve yield performance
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Former roles at Huawei, Teledyne e2v, and CML Microcircuits
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Bridges engineering, operations, and platform deployment to ensure sustained production impact
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Holds a degree in Astrophysics from the University of Kent
Maria Lochinie Trocio
Director of Quality Assurance
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Nearly two decades of semiconductor industry experience across test engineering and process control
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Former long-term engineering leader at Maxim Integrated
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Leads quality assurance, validation, and platform performance governance at yieldHUB
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Deep expertise in semiconductor manufacturing quality systems and test environments
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Ensures stability, scalability, and performance across high-volume production deployments
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Holds a degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering
Enid Chen
Application Manager
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12+ years at yieldHUB supporting global semiconductor customers
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Deep expertise in semiconductor test data analysis and yield engineering workflows
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Works directly with engineering teams to implement and optimize yieldHUB in production
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Background in foundry process engineering and fabless semiconductor product engineering
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Experience spanning yield analysis, quality assurance, and product management
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Trusted advisor helping customers solve complex manufacturing and test challenges
Deep semiconductor domain expertise
The yieldHUB team combines experience across:
- Semiconductor yield management and ramp optimization
- Wafer sort and final test analytics
- Parametric trend monitoring and bin analysis
- Outlier detection and reliability improvement
- Automated test equipment infrastructure
- OSAT and foundry collaboration
- Scalable semiconductor data architecture
- High-volume global production environments
Our engineering backgrounds ensure that yieldHUB remains aligned with real manufacturing challenges, not generic analytics theory.
Global semiconductor support model
yieldHUB operates as a long-term engineering partner to semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.
We provide:
- Dedicated semiconductor customer success managers
- Semiconductor-experienced technical support engineers
- Structured onboarding and training programs
- Rapid technical escalation processes
- Continuous global coverage across time zones
Our 95.53 percent customer satisfaction rate reflects a disciplined, production-focused support model built around engineering outcomes and yield performance improvement.
Global semiconductor presence
yieldHUB operates with on-the-ground semiconductor expertise across major manufacturing regions worldwide.
Our headquarters is based in Ireland, with an established engineering and operations office in the Philippines supporting customers across Asia-Pacific. We maintain team members and representatives in:
- Philippines, with more than 20 engineers and platform specialists
- Taiwan
- China
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- United States
This distributed structure allows yieldHUB to support semiconductor manufacturers across multiple time zones, including Asia, Europe, and North America.
Our presence in Asia ensures close alignment with OSATs, foundries, and high-volume test operations. Our teams in Europe and the United States support fabless companies, IDMs, and advanced manufacturing programs.
This global footprint enables structured, continuous support for semiconductor production environments operating 24 hours per day.
Join the team
yieldHUB continues to expand its global semiconductor engineering and data science teams.
Explore current opportunities to contribute to the next generation of semiconductor yield management software and manufacturing intelligence.