# Maxim Kelman

> Materials Technology Development & Commercialization

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maximkelman

- Over 15 years of product development, vendor and customer management in electronic materials technology
- Strong track record in leading cross functional teams in developing new products from concept through launch
- Skilled at using customer and market insights to identify and tap business opportunities 
- Creative inventor with 20 issued patents and a deep understanding of intellectual property strategy and implementation
- Stanford PhD and UC Berkeley education in Materials Science & Engineering

## Work Experience
### Materials Product Design: Inks and Coatings @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Display Process Engineering Manager @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022
Module process technology development and scale-up for multiple generations of iPhone and watch OLED displays.

### Sr. Technology Manager @ AIXTRON SE
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Lead equipment and process technology development for III/V epitaxy on 300mm Si wafers.  Managed key customer relationships for As/P and GaN joint development programs.

### Technical Manager @ DuPont Innovalight
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014
Screen printable paste development for photovoltaics and other applications.
IP Portfolio management

### Manager, Materials & Print Development @ Innovalight, Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
Electronic materials development for patterned doping

### Project Leader @ Innovalight, Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
Equipment and process development for high efficiency inkjet-printed solar cells

### Senior Materials Engineer @ Innovalight, Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Silicon nanoparticle synthesis, ink processing and solar cell technology development.

### Process Development Engineer @ Novellus Systems
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Process development of PECVD-deposited nanoporous dielectrics

### Sr. Process Engineer @ Intel-Components Research
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
Thin film heteroepitaxy and semiconductor wafer bonding for integration of novel materials into the CMOS process flow

### Hertz Fellow @ Stanford University
Jan 1998 – Jan 2003
Ferroelectric materials synthesis and characterization for non-volatile memory applications

### Summer Intern @ Advanced Micro Devices
Jan 1998 – Jan 1998
Copper metallization and dielectric development

### Research Assistant @ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Jan 1996 – Jan 1998
Superconducting thin film synthesis and characterization


## Education
### PhD in Materials Science & Engineering
Stanford University

### MS in Materials Science & Engineering
Stanford University

### BS in Materials Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maxim-kelman-0504781

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Last updated: 2026-04-13