Stephen M. Rothrock

Stephen Rothrock founded ATREG in 2000 to help the world’s advanced technology companies divest and acquire infrastructure-rich manufacturing assets, including semiconductor wafer fabs (front- and back-end) as well as MEMS, display, solar, and R&D facilities. Over the last 10 years, his firm has completed 70% of all global operational wafer fab sales in the semiconductor industry, with five of these involving 300mm operational fabs. Recent global acquisitions and dispositions have involved Allegro MicroSystems, Bosch, Elmos, Fujitsu, GlobalFoundries, IBM, Infineon, Japan Display Inc., Micron, Nexperia, NXP, onsemi, Plessey, Qualcomm, Renesas, Sony, Texas Instruments, TSI, and Vanguard to name just a few. Prior to founding ATREG, Stephen established Colliers International’s Global Corporate Services initiative and headed the company’s U.S. division based in Seattle, Wash.

Before that, he worked as Director for Savills International real estate brokerage in London, UK, establishing their global corporate services platform serving large multinationals, including AT&T, British Telecom, Cisco, Ericsson, and Microsoft, among others. Stephen also served on the UK-listed property company’s international board. He also spent four years near Paris, France working for an international NGO. Stephen holds an MA degree in Political Theology from the University of Hull, UK, and a BA degree in Business Commerce from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.