Yuji Furumura was born in Yoichi-cho Hokkaido, Japan, in 1950.
He received Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai and joined Fujitsu Ltd. in 1979. In Fujitsu Ltd. He was engaged in development of high-volume Si-epi-tool, substrate specification, wiring technology and piloted FeRAM manufacturing. He left Fujitsu Ltd. and established Philtech Inc. in 2001.
Shinji Nishihara received the B.S. degree in Physics from Kyoto University in 1981. He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Science in 1983 from Osaka University and joined Semiconductor Group of Hitachi Ltd. where he was in charge of process development of wiring and sputtering. He transferred the DRAM and SRAM technologies to production lines. He executed the chair in STRJ wiring working group in 1998. He was assigned to Trecenti Technologies to start up the 300-mm production in 2000. He left Renesas Technology Corp. and joined Philtech Inc. in 2006.
Eri Haikata graduated in Chemical Science at Waseda University in 1986 and joined Hitachi Ltd.. She was in charge of dry-etching and FeRAM development. She worked with Lam Research and a venture company. She joined Philtech Inc. in 2004 and has been in charge of application-specific-TEG supply.