David Kitping Lam (Chinese: 林杰屏; pinyin: Lín Jiépíng; Jyutping: Lam4 Git6ping4) is a Chinese-born American technology entrepreneur.
He presently serves as Chairman of Multibeam Corporation (Santa Clara, CA), which manufactures complementary electron beam lithography (CEBL) systems.
As their new home in Vietnam became an increasingly dangerous place to live in the mid-1950s, Lam's parents moved David and most of his siblings to Hong Kong.
After graduating from Pui Ching Middle School in Hong Kong, he boarded a ship that embarked on a three-week voyage to North America, where he would subsequently pursue studies in engineering and physics at the University of Toronto.
[1] During his post-graduate years, he was a co-inventor of a plasma-produced solid lubricant that was patented under the title, "Fluorine Plasma Synthesis for Carbon Monofluoride.
"[2] His doctoral research included a paper titled, "A Mechanisms and Kinetics Study of Polymeric Thin-film Deposition in Glow Discharge" that was published later in the Journal of Macromolecular Science – Chemistry (1976).
[4] He also led software development and marketing at ExpertEdge, and later formed the David Lam Group[7] in 1995 to provide management advice and investment capital to early stage ventures as well as established companies in transition.