Biography

Dr. Goldblatt is the founding President and CEO of G3 Technical Services LLC, a technical executive consultancy focusing on advanced semiconductor science, engineering, and manufacturing. Prior to forming G3, Dr. Goldblatt most recently served as a Senior Vice President of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and as the President and CEO of SEMATECH, Inc. Since its founding in 1987 by the US Government and leading US chipmakers, SEMATECH has been the premier research and development consortium serving the needs of the semiconductor manufacturing industry. In 2015, Dr. Goldblatt led the organization through its transition from a member-operated consortium to an independent R&D entity allied with SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Following the operational integration of SEMATECH with the SUNY Poly College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), Dr. Goldblatt managed a technical, administrative and operations staff of 385 people. In addition, the facilities he oversaw at the $24B Albany Nanotech Complex served the needs of over 300 industry partners with more than 3200 on-site employees. Dr. Goldblatt’s combined organization had an annual operational budget in excess of $150M and executed on approximately $250M of capital and infrastructure spending each year. He managed the Center for Semiconductor Research, a leading edge, industry-relevant 300mm research, development and prototyping fab located at the Albany Nanotech Center. Within one month of assuming responsibility, Dr. Goldblatt achieved a doubling in productivity of the fab, while improving customer satisfaction and maintaining quality and expense levels. He led the facility’s expansion into new technology areas such as quantum computing, photonics and nanobiotechnology.

In addition to his executive leadership roles at SUNY Polytechnic and SEMATECH, Dr. Goldblatt was the Chairman of the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium, sat on the New York State Governor’s Board for the $600M DoD-funded AIM Photonics Institute and provided management support to the NY Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium based in Albany, Utica and Rochester. Based on his 35-year career in industry, he contributed to the additional expansion of the SUNY Polytechnic mission across New York State including oversight of the build-out and attraction of corporate partners to the Marcy Nano Center, the Quad-C Computer Chip Commercialization Center, multiple facilities in the Rochester area and expansion in the Buffalo region.

Prior to joining SEMATECH, Dr. Goldblatt spent three decades at the IBM Corporation. He began as a Research Scientist,  at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

He then led an integrated research and development team at IBM’s East Fishkill Development and Manufacturing site  to develop, qualify, and implement a new manufacturing technology (Copper Back-End-Of-Line (BEOL).

He pioneered the first successful introduction of copper wiring into chip manufacturing which has become the accepted technology standard for every semiconductor manufacturer since that time. Partnering with the manufacturing teams, he achieved the successful transfer of eight technology generations. In 2003, Dr. Goldblatt returned to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, culminating his tenure over the next decade at IBM as a Distinguished Engineer and Senior Manager of Advanced Silicon Science and Process Technology. His leadership was marked by successful efforts in championing the transformation of IBM’s semiconductor research cleanroom, supporting early prototyping of breakthrough technologies, and developing leading-edge semiconductor technologies.

Dr. Goldblatt earned his doctorate in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut. He holds 13 U.S. patents and is the author of more than 30 publications.