O'Malley Bio

GRACE O’MALLEY (M' 93) is Vice President of Technical and Project Operations for the International Electronic Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI). Based in Limerick, Ireland, she manages the portfolio of cross-industry collaborative iNEMI projects, development of the iNEMI strategy and interactions with the wide technical community in Europe. 

Grace’s background is in electronics materials and manufacturing research.  Prior to iNEMI, she worked for Motorola in the US on the development and deployment of flip chip capabilities and low-cost assembly processes. She also spent two years establishing and leading a multidisciplinary research team at Motorola’s site in Jaguariuna, Brazil, supporting the volume manufacturing of cell phones, radios and cellular infrastructure for the Latin America markets. Grace started her career as a research engineer, focused on electronics packaging and board assembly, at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland.

Grace has an honours bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University College Cork (Ireland), and a Master of Science in materials and manufacturing engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, U.S.A.).  She holds eight U.S. patents. Throughout her career she has authored presentations for many conferences including IMAPS and ECTC. Grace has been a member of IEEE-EPS since the start of her career, supporting many events in the region. She served as a member-at-large in the EPS BOG for Region 8 for 2018-2020.