Fractional CMO/CTO for High-End Vision, Electronics & Semiconductor Manufacturing
Assisting Mid- and Largesize companies scale complex vision, electronics and semiconductor topics without chaos.
Experienced in growing international, high-tech, B2B enterprises becoming market driven, "one customer at the time".
About High Tech Executive
Our value to you
- Deliver innovative consultancy and international advice in the technology sector.
- Focus on scaling complex systems offering valuable insight.
- Assist Executives (Boards) in making calculated decisions
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Years of Experience
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What's a Fractional CMO/CTO?
Hiring a full-time, qualified CMO is a significant expenditure. You need to spend large efforts recruiting, and then need to offer a good full-time salary. And you’re going to need a tempting benefits package. A part-time CMO or CTO, on the other hand, can slide into most any budget. A fractional CMO/CTO is really just a part-time Executive.
Benefits of a Fractional Executive
- An outside opinion: Brining in an outsider gives you a fresh perspective on your company.
- Leadership: Outsourced CMO/CTO's make natural leaders
- Experience: An outsourced CMO/CTO comes with many industry knowledge and industry connections.
When to choose a fractional CMO/CTO?
- Growth: When your company is in a growth phase or international expansion.
- Professional: For scale-ups or family companies.
- Investment: Prepare for sale or investment round.
High-Tech manufacturing
High tech is the pinnacle of industrial innovation: the tightly integrated use of advanced science, precision engineering and software to create and control complex systems at atomic, nanometer or micrometer scale, enabling rapid, reliable and cost‑effective mass production of transformative digital products across a global, highly specialized supply chain.
Customer Challenges
Companies in the High-Tech supply chain are exposed to many risks.
- Components & subassemblies: Single‑source suppliers for optics, lasers, motion stages and vacuum systems; long lead times; IP leakage; quality escapes that surface only at system‑level.
- Modules & tier‑1 integrators: Capacity bottlenecks in highly specialized mechatronics, cost inflation from redesigns, schedule slips, and financial distress of niche partners.
- Equipment OEM: Over‑reliance on few fabs/customers, export controls (e.g., China), tariffs, demand cyclicality, and reputational/ESG risk across deep, opaque lower tiers.
What is takes to lead
Becoming a reliable tier‑2/3 supplier in high‑tech (e.g., semiconductors) is about zero‑defect quality, robust processes and deep collaboration.
Become operationally reliable
- Implement ISO‑grade QMS, SPC, FMEA, 8D and structured root‑cause analysis with full traceability.
- Design for cleanliness, precision and stability that matches fab and tool specs (particle, outgassing, thermal, vibration).
- Build dual‑sourcing for your own critical inputs and maintain realistic capacity buffers and safety stocks for long‑lead items.
Collaborate and be transparent
- Engage in joint improvement programs, audits and roadmap reviews with tier‑1s/OEMs; welcome resident engineers and knowledge transfer.
- Share forecast, risks and incident data early; use OEM portals and digital thread/PLM integrations accurately and on time.
- Don't leave the customer relation up to just the local sales representative.
Invest in people and culture
- A Healthy Organization starts at the top, align and create clarity amongst management on all company goals and efforts.
- Train engineers and operators in high‑tech quality tools, contamination control and EHS; maintain a clear zero‑defects mindset.
- Align on sustainability, ethics and compliance (conflict minerals, labor, safety), as these are now hard requirements for key OEMs.
"Creating the right balance between technology, marketing and business, that's my comfort zone."
Joost van Kuijk
