The New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering, and Science (NY CREATES) is a world-leading R&D innovation hub and commercialization facilitator. NY CREATES works with researchers in industry, academia, and national labs to leverage its state-of-the-art semiconductor-focused capabilities and resources spanning upstate New York and foster impactful partnerships with NY CREATES’ R&D teams through the ideation, incubation, and investment phases of technology development. 

NY CREATES continues New York’s long-standing leadership in providing an invigorating environment for high technology industries. This has enabled the establishment of the IBM AI Hardware Center, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC, Applied Materials’ META Center, Danfoss’s power electronics packaging facility, Wolfspeed’s 200mm Silicon Carbide (SiC) fab, and GlobalFoundries’ flagship fab in Malta, NY, among others. 

NY CREATES’ high-tech infrastructure includes the Albany NanoTech Complex, a 300mm wafer fab facility at Albany that represents more than $15B of capital investment by government and commercial entities over nearly three decades as the world’s most advanced, publicly owned semiconductor research and development site in the Western Hemisphere. The Test, Assembly and Packaging facility at Rochester, NY, is working with customers on electronic and photonic device packaging, including those for quantum computing, complementing facilities and partnerships across New York State that are catalyzing next-gen technologies, while fostering economic advancement opportunities to generate the jobs of tomorrow.

Boasting more than 2,700 industry experts and faculty, NY CREATES manages total public and private investments of more than $20 billion – placing it at the global epicenter of high-tech innovation and commercialization. �������� at www.ny-creates.org. 

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David Anderson

Robert Geer

John Iacoponi

Frank Tolic

Steve Ference

Jason Conwall

Satyavolu Papa Rao

Kassey Rydberg

William Bronner

Christopher Borst

The Leadership Team at NY CREATES is responsible for steering the organization's strategic vision and ensuring the successful execution of its R&D and commercialization goals. This team oversees critical functions including human resources, marketing, technology strategy, education, research, infrastructure, environmental health and safety, and business development. By leveraging their combined expertise, they foster partnerships and drive initiatives that maintain NY CREATES' status as a global hub for high-tech innovation and economic advancement.

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