Ghassan received the chemical engineering degree from the university of Applied Science, Berlin, Germany in 2001. In 2022 he took over the position of sales director at ELEMENT 3-5 GmbH with a special focus on the product management for the ACCELERATOR 3500K. Prior to this, he worked as an independent consultant in the semiconductor industry. Before that, he joined Ebner Group in 2011 and held several roles within the sapphire department (FAMETEC) In 2018, he built up within the group the SiC crystal growth division, which is a spin-off company since 2020. Before that, he worked at AIXTRON in R&D for development of high-k and metal gate for CMOS applications by CVD/PECVD. Ghassan holds over 15 patents in crystal growth of Sapphire and SiC.