Dana Sauter van Ness

Dana Sauter Van Ness currently serves as the Director of Customer Quality for North America at Entegris, having previously held leadership roles in customer quality engineering and materials management at CMC Materials and Cabot Microelectronics. With a robust background in materials engineering, Dana has led global teams to manage the quality of raw materials for the semiconductor industry, addressing challenges such as contamination and supply chain variation. Academic credentials include a PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University and an MBA in Global Business from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dana's early research contributions involved innovative methods for detecting trace-level heavy metals and synthesizing zeolites for catalytic applications.