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SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — An Israeli citizen living in Scottsdale has been sentenced in a case involving the theft of a Valley company’s trade secrets.
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Guy Galanti, 48, was sentenced Tuesday to time served and three years of supervised release. Galanti had been charged with conspiring to steal a trade secret on Sept. 10, 2025, and was arrested the following day. He has remained in custody since his arrest and pleaded guilty on May 26, 2026.
Federal prosecutors said Galanti worked as a senior-level manager for Green Technology Investments (GTI), a Scottsdale-based company that services semiconductor testing machines and sells remanufactured machines with new functionalities designed by GTI.
According to court documents, beginning in early January 2025 and continuing through August 2025, Galanti conspired with another individual to steal GTI’s newly created “Glass Detect Design.” The design would allow a semiconductor testing machine to locate microscopic defects on a semiconductor wafer made of glass rather than silicon.
Investigators said Galanti’s co-conspirator operated a Taiwan-based company that directly competed with GTI and wanted to recreate the new design.
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Over several months, prosecutors said Galanti secretly sent photos, information and software related to the Glass Detect Design to the other individual in an effort to recreate GTI’s proprietary system.
Authorities said the pair tried to cover their tracks by communicating over an encrypted messaging platform, deleting emails and transaction data sent from Galanti’s work email, and creating fictitious invoices to document the transfers and potential payments to Galanti.
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