Antonio (Toni) Mesquida Küsters was born in Spain and holds the M.Sc. (1990) and the PhD. degrees (1994) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University (RWTH) of Aachen (Germany). Since then, Dr. Mesquida has spent his whole professional career within the Semiconductor Industry.
During more than 29 years, Toni has collected hands-on experience in senior management roles in the areas of R&D, technology-transfer, IC production, venture capital investments, strategy, business development, market intelligence, sourcing, operations, product marketing as well as general management at both leading European semiconductor chip-making companies like Siemens and Infineon, as well as at WW wafer fab equipment leaders like AIXTRON and ASML.
Until end of 2022, he was Senior Director Product Marketing & Business Development @ ASML in charge of a lithography product portfolio with yearly revenues of over 2.5 B€. Since then, he is CEO of the high-tech consulting boutique TECH-DILIGENCE GmbH, located in Aachen (Germany) and as such, he advises both public- as well as private-institutions on semiconductor-related matters. He is currently helping to build a strong and long-lasting semiconductor industry in his country-of-origin Spain.
