Location Portland, Oregon, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jim LaCasse is President and CEO NexPlanar after holding senior management positions in global semiconductor materials companies.
Most recently, Jim was CEO of Quantum Leap Packaging, a venture capital backed start-up in the Boston area.
Prior to that, he served as President of Sumitomo Chemical’s Electronic Materials Business where he was
responsible for opening its Phoenix-based headquarters for North American operations and driving several acquisitions.
Earlier, Jim spent seventeen years in various roles with Olin Corporation. During his tenure, he launched a number of stand-alone businesses and drove several acquisitions and joint ventures including Planar Solutions, a leading CMP slurry vendor. Jim also ran Asian operations for five years and was later promoted to Vice President and General Manager of the Division. When Olin spun off its microelectronics business into Arch Chemical, Jim remained as VP and GM until 2000 when he left to start a business in the fab services segment.
Jim has a BS from LeMoyne College, and MA and MBA degrees from the Drucker School at the Claremont Graduate University. He is a member of the board or directors of NexPlanar and Inpria Corporation and has served as director on several other boards in Japan and the US.
