Wayne Johnson
Founder & President at ASCET Center of Excellence
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWayne Johnson is a semiconductor industry strategist and founder who leverages a PhD in chemical engineering and two decades of hands-on R&D and product leadership to advise public and private sector clients worldwide. As Founder & President of Soundside Partners and former Executive VP at IQE, he has overseen global commercial operations, launched GaN-based product lines, and driven technology transfer across RF, power, sensing, and aerospace markets. He combines deep technical credentials—3 book chapters, 20 US patents and 200+ publications—with practical business skills in M&A, go-to-market, and organizational design. An active advisor to incubators and frontier startups in quantum and novel transistor technologies, he bridges academic innovation and scaled manufacturing. Based in Wilmington, NC, Wayne is known for translating advanced compound semiconductor science into commercial products and policy-ready insights that anticipate multi-decade industry shifts.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BChE Chemical Engineering, BChE Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemical Engineering at University of Florida
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Github contributions (5)
wdtj/mlaunch
May 2014 - Jan 2022
Contributions:221 commits, 130 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
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