Giles Humpston supports their Europe and North America customers in their successful adoption of UltraTouch into their end products. He has spent his career working in the semiconductor industry transforming new technologies into commercial products. This has spanned multiple sectors and technologies ranging from military hardware to mobile phones and encompassing electronics, photonics, optics and MEMS. He is a cited inventor on 263 patent applications, author of 152 publications, speaker at 51 conferences, recipient of four international awards and co-author of four text books on soldering and brazing. A metallurgist by profession, he holds a Ph.D. in alloy phase equilibria.