Victor Acinas is a program manager at Applied Materials responsible to drive product innovation and new business development by initiating and coordinating partnerships and government supported collaborative R&D projects across Applied Materials locations in Europe. He is a member of the European Regional Council at Applied Materials as well as the Steering Committee of the Advanced Materials European Technology Platform (EuMaT) and the Technical Expert Group for the EUREKA PENTA Cluster on micro and nanoelectronics.