Over his long and successful career at Bell Labs, Marc showed exceptional service, steadfast dedication, strong leadership and outstanding performance on key projects and roadmaps of high impact to INEMI members and to the electronics industry at large. Marc’s personal journey of service to INEMI spanned 25 years as a participant as well as a leader and co-leader of numerous projects impacting materials science and the challenges impacting the electronics industry, such as the elimination of lead in electronics.
He continued his leadership by serving on the INEMI Board of Directors, became Chairman of the Board (2013-2018), and then served as CEO of INEMI (2018-2021), providing executive leadership that further advanced INEMI's programs, projects and membership expansion and fulfillment. Since his retirement from INEMI, he has served as Executive Advisor to the Board.
Marc’s focus was always on executing projects that were relevant and timely for the electronics industry, with notable contributions in areas such as environmental sustainability and smart manufacturing.
- He had a strong passion for and dedication to solving the problems associated with environmental sustainability in electronics. He worked on projects associated with eliminating hazardous substances from electronics such as lead, chromium, cadmium, polyvinyl chloride, and halogenated flame retardants. He also focused on measuring the eco-impact of electronics products over their full life cycle, with particular attention to developing tools that members could easily use to assess their products.
- In the area of smart manufacturing Marc led efforts to resolve electronics manufacturing challenges and to find opportunities to close gaps via collaborative innovation across the electronics industry. Most importantly, he focused on what industry collaboration can further bring in developing/driving industry infrastructure to close existing gaps, such as stimulating standards and common specifications development, and disseminating efficient and effective best practices and guidelines.