Werner Dumanski

Who is Werner Dumanski?

Werner Dumanski was IBM's top manufacturing executive prior to joining

Nanosolar, responsible for the company's $4.5 billion storage

components business, a world-wide organization of 12,000 people, and a

billion-dollar equipment budget. One of the largest volume producers of

thin-film disks and recording heads in the world, Dumanski's unit

generated as much as 60% of all of IBM's profit while successfully

implementing several generations of the industry's most challenging and

advanced new disk technologies. As part of this, Dumanski also

succeeded in delivering on one of the steepest manufacturing ramp-ups

ever for a high-tech product -- for a new storage disk that enabled the

Apple iPod product. Werner Dumanski started his career at IBM's wafer

and disk production operation in Mainz, Germany, helping ramp this

business to a high volume operation with the industry's leading cost

structure. In 1993, he assumed responsibility for IBM's San Jose

recording manufacturing operation which he overhauled, increasing wafer

production by a factor of 3, reducing cycle time by a factor of 6, and

establishing a modern SPC and APC controlled factory.