Michael Leathem

Vice President Engineering / Founder

Michael Leathem A boyhood friend of Zach’s, Mike jumped at the opportunity to found CrossRate in 2004. Prior to CrossRate Mike worked in and around the microelectronics industry for the past seven years. During this time he has performed product development and process integration work for Micron Technology, National Semiconductor, and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Mr. Leathem has experience implementing statistically designed product and process improvements. He completed full process development and electrical analysis of novel gate insulators for CMOS transistors during his thesis work. He also performed research on MOS gate oxide cleaning and contamination, as well as micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) process flow development. He earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University and his Master of Science in Microelectronics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.