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Chips/Semiconductors Executive Search

We deliver mission-critical C-suite & technical leaders for global chip design, manufacturing, and advanced semiconductor businesses.
Chips/Semiconductors

Semiconductors underpin global digital industries including AI, automotive electronics and cloud. Fast technical upgrades trigger widespread shortages of senior technical and leadership talent across chip design, fabs, packaging, equipment and material suppliers, yet traditional recruitment cannot engage passive top specialists, leading to prolonged hiring cycles, mismatched candidates and lagging technical progress.

FORESTOWN is a global semiconductor Executive Search Firm serving fabless, IDM, foundry and advanced materials clients worldwide. Backed by an intercontinental talent network of pre-vetted niche experts, our veteran consultants specialize in chip processes, architectures and global talent trends, delivering full-cycle recruitment covering talent mapping, technical assessments, background checks and onboarding to shorten hiring timelines and boost matching accuracy.

As a trusted cross-border talent partner, we leverage vertical industry insights and global reach to help semiconductor firms build elite core teams, ease talent shortages and maintain long-term market competitiveness. Our customized Executive Search services align with clients’ international expansion and technical roadmaps to advance global industrial growth.

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Industry Landscape

Semiconductors Industry Landscape

Rapid innovation in advanced nodes, automotive chips, Al accelerators, and power semiconductors

Intense competition for chip design, R&D, manufacturing,and process engineering executives

Need for leaders with cross-border, scale-up, and technical operational allgnment

Our Expertise

Subsectors We Cover

Chip Design & Architecture Integrated Device Manufacturing (IDM) Wafer Fabrication & Semiconductor Manufacturing Semiconductor Equipment & Materials Automotive & Industrial Semiconductors Al Accelerators & Advanced Computing

Key Roles We Place

CEO, COO, CTO, CFO VP of Engineering / R&D/ Chip Design VP of Manufacturing & Operations VP of Sales & Business Development Senior Director of Design, Process, Test Fab & Site Leadership

Our advantage

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74 Countries

FORESTOWN is a professional company of global high-end talent search and enterprise consulting services. It has its own strong knowledge base and global talent knowledge network, and its business covers 74 countries such as America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

5000 + Cooperative Customers

The FORESTOWN serves 5000 customers in 74 countries, and more than 1000 customers have established long-term and stable human resources strategic partnerships to help domestic enterprises introduce overseas talents, and at the same time recommend domestic talents to develop overseas.

10 Working Languages

FORESTOWN consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world. 45% of professional consultants can work bilingually. The language types involve: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish 10 languages.

Exclusive Talent Pool

The FORESTOWN exclusively develops and owns the advanced Pipeline management system in China's headhunting industry. So far, it has gathered nearly 10 million people engaged in management, marketing, investment, technology, finance, human resources and other occupations, which are widely distributed in the industry's high-end elites at the level of manager-level director and general manager.

Senior Advisory Team

The FORESTOWN has a number of professional consultants who have delivered more than one million and top experts who have delivered more than ten million. Thousands of hunting cases are successfully completed every year. The consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world, with bachelor to doctoral degrees.

24 Hour Service

The consultant teams of the three branches of the FORESTOWN can cross time zones, and the three time zones can continuously serve customers 24 hours a day, and fully guarantee the speed and quality of service results.

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Our Executive Search Process

Brief & Industry Analysis

Target Mapping & Talent Intelligence

Assessment & Technical Validation

Shortlist & Stakeholder Alignment

Onboarding & Retention Support

Success Stories

CTO (Artificial Intelligence) Hire for a Global Chipmaker

CTO (Artificial Intelligence) Hire for a Global Chipmaker

Client Industry Semiconductor / IC Design Challenge Client faced critical gaps in hiring a CTO with deep AI & chip architecture expertise, with limited access to niche global talent pools. Solution We executed a retained, cross-border executive search, leveraging our network of C-level tech leaders to identify passive, high-calibre candidates. Result Successfully placed the ideal candidate in 8 weeks, aligning with the client’s roadmap, with a retention rate of 100% post-onboarding.

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