Jennie Hwang

Jennie Hwang (Jennie S. Hwang) is an international businesswoman, entrepreneur, engineer, scientist, author, and international speaker, who has been National President of the Surface Mount Technology Association[1] and heads H-Technologies Group. She is the first woman to receive a PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Materials Science and Engineering.[2] A YWCA award in Cleveland is named for her.[3]; the Award, now for 19 years running, recognizes outstanding women college students who study in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) disciplines.

She is an inductee of the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.[4] and the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame[5]; a recipient of YWCA Achievement Award; and Distinguished Alumni Awards (Case Western Reserve University Van Horn Award, Kent State University.) She is elected to the National Academy of Engineering(6) and named R&D Stars-to-Watch by the Industry Week (7).

Dr. Hwang was the commencement speaker for Kent State University, 2001, and the commencement speaker for Ohio University, 2007, where she encouraged graduates to enrich in global perspectives (8).

Her formal education includes four academic degrees (Ph.D., M.S., M.A., B.S.) and Harvard Business School Executive Program & Columbia University Corporate Governance programs. She has held senior executive positions with Lockheed Martin Corporation, Sherwin Williams Company, SCM Corporation (Hanson PLC) and was the CEO of International Electronic Materials Corporation that she co-founded and was later acquired and the Interim CEO of Asahi America, Inc.

She has served on a number of boards/committees (public and private companies, government committees, non-profits and industry boards) and has been a member of many professional and non-profit organizations (e.g. Economic Club of New York, American Chemical Society, Great Lakes Science Center, Council on World Affairs); she is the Chairman of Assessment Board of U.S. Army Research Laboratories and the Chairman of Review Committee on Army Engineering Centers commissioned by National Academies and U.S. Department of Defense. She is an invited featured-speaker/lecturer across the U.S. and in over twenty-eight countries in four continents. An author of 550+ publications and several books including two ground-breaking books on environmentally-friendly lead-free electronics, published by Electrochemical Publications, LTD, U.K. and McGraw-Hill, U.S.A., respectively(9). Further: www.JennieHwang.com