Samsung Austin Semiconductor LP (Austin, TX), a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Seoul, Korea), announced that H. K. Park, the senior vice president for site operations for Samsung Austin Semiconductor, has became the second chief executive officer for the company, replacing former President Sung Lee, who established the company in the US in 1996. Lee will stay with the company as a senior advisor until he is reassigned to a new position within the Samsung organization.
Park joined Samsung Electronics as a senior manager in research and development in 1986, and held various positions in that department before becoming a plant manager in the LSI division in 1990. He successfully ramped up the world's first 8 in wafer fab in 1993 as a plant manager in the semiconductor division's Kiheung, South Korea, manufacturing complex. He came to the Austin plant in 1997, a year after ground was broken on the $1.4 billion facility, as the vice president of site operations.
