KSMC Partnerships

Tim Carty

Founder

Pete Keegan

President

Rowdy Meyer

Vice-President

RUSTY Electronics, SCL, PSUK, SRM


Chris Stiles

Chair

Bart Massey

President & CEO

Kathy Thacker

President, FLMST

Ian Kimani

CEO

Jeremy Pierce

CFO

Lauryn Needle

COO

Demis John

Advisor

Greg Vahrenberg

Managing Director

Dr. Caron Daughtery

President

Mike Crouch

Vice President

Bruce Moses, Ed. D

President

Rebecca Bilderback

Dean

Melanie Wallace

Dean

Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce


Kim Randolph

President / CEO

Carlos Gomez

President / CEO

Samuel Green, esq.

Charles Branson, esq.

Andrew Holder, esq.

David Cooper, esq.

Sabin Yanez, P.E.

Rick Walker, P.E.

Garrett Nordstrom

Partner

Brett Waggoner

Partner

Bobby Skipper

ED Director | Principal Contact

Carl Lee

Environmental Health Director

Mark Kern

President/CEO

KSMC Partnership


KSMC is an emerging rural regional semiconductor manufacturing cluster recently formed as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between local government, higher education, and semiconductor component manufacturing partners. The formation of this entity creates the co-location of like-minded partners in a contiguous geographic area providing component manufacturing facilities, suppliers, and workforce development programs that share critical infrastructure, like equipment, space, and talent in ways that maximize efficiency.


As of November 14, 2022, the following covered entities have formally adopted and executed this PPP agreement solidifying their commitment to plan, finance, construct, and operate a measurably secure fabrication, dicing, and packaging campus near Burlington in Coffey County, KS:


Public

  • Coffey County Board of Commissioners
  • Coffey County Economic Development

     – Bobby Skipper, Director, Burlington, KS


Private

  • EMP Shield, Inc.
  • KPN Technology, Inc.
  • PSUK - Power Supply of Kansas
  • Rusty Electronics - printed circuit boards
  • SCL - Secure Capacitors, LLC
  • SRM - Shadey Ridge Manufacturing


Educational

  • Flint Hills Technical College
  • Allen County Community College


 



 



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