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Staff -- Semiconductor International, 10/1/1998
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 Steven Otenti |
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Robert H. Combs was appointed president and CEO of NIMTEC Inc. (Chandler,
Ariz.). He has served 17 years in the industry. Phone: 602-732-9857
Mila Genov has been named president and CEO of Genmark Automation (Sunnyvale,
Calif.). She is a business executive with over 15 years experience in the semiconductor
industry. Also at the company Ian Raphael was appointed vice president of engineering
and general manager. He has over 25 years industry experience. Phone: 408-745-6520
Steven Otenti has been appointed manager, GaAs production of Alpha Industries
(Woburn, Mass.). His responsibilities include production planning, managing
the execution of production and tool installation and maintenance. Phone: 781-935-5150
John Miller was appointed sales director of Scantron (Taunton, Somerset,
U.K.). In addition, Ben Paul and Mark Nichols were promoted to
sales engineer and marketing and sales support, respectively. Phone: 01823 333343
Dr. Mei Sun was appointed to the newly created position of vice president
of sensor research and development of SensArray Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
She is a 17-year veteran of the company with over 20 years experience developing
sensors and instrumentation for semiconductor applications. Phone: 408-727-4656
Ajit Rode has been hired as senior vice president and general manager
of Semiconductor Systems Inc., a subsidiary of FSI International (Minneapolis,
Minn.). He is a 20-year veteran of the microelectronics industry. Phone: 612-448-5440
William R. Spivey, president of Lucent Technologies Network Products
Group (Murray Hill, N.J.), has been elected to the board of directors of Novellus
Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.). He has over 27 years managerial experience
in high-volume, high- technology and electronic-oriented business. Phone: 408-943-9700
Jonathan Cheah was appointed to the newly created position of director
of Asia Pacific operations of Xynetix Design Systems Inc. (Fishers, N.Y.). He
has over 10 years experience in sales, marketing and management. Also at the
company, Leslie Landers was appointed to the newly created position of vice
president of marketing. She has been with the company since 1997. Phone: 716-924-9303
Stephen G. Newberry was promoted to president and CEO of Lam Research
Corp. (Fremont, Calif.). He has been with the company since 1997 and will be
responsible for all global operations. Phone: 510-659-0200
George Hoedeman was appointed vice president of sales and marketing of
Wavecrest Corp, (Minneapolis). He is responsible for corporate marketing and
end user sales. Phone: 612-831-0030
Ken Thompson has been appointed to the board of directors of both GaSonics
International and Silicon Valley Group Inc. (both in San Jose). He is a 25-year
industry veteran recently retired as vice president of technology and manufacturing
engineering from Intel Corp. Phone: 408-944-0212 or 408-434-0500
Ann Hoang and Jeffrey Asher were named vice president of R&D
and engineering and vice president of worldwide sales and applications engineering,
respectively, at Luxtron Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.). Also at the company, Kimberly
Firehammer was promoted to director of marketing. Phone: 408-727-1600
Dr. David B. Graves has been awarded Tegal Corp.'s 19th annual Thinker
Award for his dedication and contributions in the field of plasma etching. The
award honored his 12 years of work investigating plasma modeling and simulation,
plasma diagnostics, plasma-surface interactions, environmental aspects of plasma
processing and particulates in plasma. Phone: 800-828-3425
Yoram Cedar was appointed vice president of systems engineering of SanDisk
Corp. (Sunnyvale). He has been in the industry for over 12 years, with experience
in product definition, marketing and development of systems and embedded flash-based
semiconductors. Phone: 408-542-0500
Bette A. Acker and Scott T. Barrett were appointed to the newly
created positions of product marketing managers for flip-chip wafer bumping
and wafer-level, chip-scale packaging of Flip Chip Technologies LLC (FCT, Phoenix,
Ariz.). Acker has 23 years experience in diverse industries including chemicals,
plastics, biotechnology and inorganic materials. Barrett has over 14 years experience
in product planning to strategic planning and financial management. Phone: 602-431-6020
Douglas Malchow was appointed director of marketing and sales for commercial
products of Discovery Semiconductor Inc. (Princeton, N.J.). He has an 18-year
track record in technical marketing and sales. Phone: 609-275-0011
Emil Alexov was appointed vice president, sales and marketing of the
semiconductor division of MOSAID Technologies Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).
He has over 15 years experience in strategic marketing in the industry. Phone:
613-599-9539
