People in the News
Staff -- Semiconductor International, 6/1/1999
Joseph Monkowski |
James A. Suffoletta |
Timothy W. Watson |
Richard Kellogg |
Markku Jaaskelainen |
Chris Havlik |
Jason Atwater |
Monica Moloney |
Joseph Monkowski was named senior vice president of sales and
marketing of Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (AE, Fort Collins, Colo.).
He has been with the company since October 1998 and has extensive
experience in electrical engineering. Phone 970-221-4670
James A. Suffoletta was appointed the director of professional
services of Ion Systems (Berkeley, Calif.). He brings more than 20 years
of technical and marketing experience to the position. Phone:
510-548-3640
Timothy W. Watson has joined the sales management team supporting the
worldwide expansion, marketing and product development initiatives of
International Wafer Service (Portola Valley, Calif.). He is a 38-year
veteran of the semiconductor materials industry. Phone: 650-494-6851
Richard Kellogg was appointed to vice president of manufacturing of
CVC (Rochester, N.Y.). He is responsible for directing fabrication,
assembly, materials handling, manufacturing engineering, production
control, purchasing, project management and facilities. Phone:
716-458-2550
Markku Jaaskelainen was appointed to the position of corporate vice
president and general manager of the surface inspection systems division
(SISD) of Cognex Corp. (Natick, Mass.). Also at the company, Peter J.
Herman was appointed to the position of director of customer
satisfaction for its SISD. Phone 508-650-3000
Chris Havlik has been named product manager of Nordson Electronics
Systems Group (NESG, Amherst, Ohio). He will guide the market strategies
for selective conformal coating equipment and new product development
for the automated dispensing technology. Phone: 440-985-4000
Jason Atwater has been appointed to the position of sales engineer of
Tosoh SMD (Grove City, Ohio). He will provide sales and technical
support for semiconductor and specialty thin film coating customers in
Northern California. Phone 408-966-9222
Monica Moloney was named vice president of human resources of Advanced
Energy Industries Inc. (AE, Fort Collins, Colo.). She has direct
responsibility for all human resource functions at the Colorado,
California, New Jersey, Texas and Minnesota offices. Phone: 970-221-4670
Mike Hugill has been promoted to director of western region customer
operations of Asyst Technologies Inc. (Fremont, Calif.). Also at the
company, George Kozloski and Barry Davidson have been
appointed to director of global account teams and director of eastern
region customer service, respectively. These positions were created to
address customer requirements associated with increasing sales activity
to OEM's and end users. Phone: 510-661-5000
Dr. Richard George of ASM Lithography (ASML) has been elected to the
board of directors of Extraction Systems Inc. (Franklin, Mass.). He is
the director of Step & Scan marketing for ASML and has 22 years
experience in the lithography business. Phone: 508-553-3900
Dr. Paula J. Grunthaner has been elected president of the American
Vacuum Society (AVS, New York, N.Y.). The AVS presidency is a three-year
term, one as president-elect, one as president and one as immediate past
president. She is the technology lead for the center for in situ
exploration and sample return at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL,
Pasadena, Calif.). Phone 212-248-0200
Michael A. Pikulin was appointed to the newly created position of
director of technology development of Voltaix Inc. (North Branch, N.J.).
He will be leading a team of chemists and engineers responsible for all
phases of process and product development and pilot-scale manufacturing.
Robert Selzer was promoted to senior vice president of technology of
SAL Inc. (South Burlington, Vt.). He has been with the company since
1994 and was senior product manager of the X-ray lithography program at
the company's predecessor, Karl Suss. Phone: 802-652-0055
Robert L. Protheroe was appointed to the position of senior vice
president, development and engineering of SmartDisk Corp. (Naples,
Fla.). He brings executive management and engineering experience in
product and technology development to the position. He holds 20 product
and technology patents. Phone: 941-436-2556
Felix Bagdasarjanz was appointed chief executive officer and member of
the board of directors of the ESEC Group (Cham, Switzerland). He is a
highly experienced manager of manufacturing companies. Phone: +41 (0) 41
749 51 11
William McCarthy has been appointed to the newly created position of
chief financial officer and Bill Williams was named director of
global quality of Cabot Corp.'s Microelectronics Material Division
(Aurora, Ill.). Also at the company, Jeremy Jones and Paul
Feeney were appointed director of the division's emerging polishing
pad business and program manager of dielectric business, respectively.
Phone: 630-585-9471
