People in the News
Staff -- Semiconductor International, 5/1/2002
Sergio Perez was appointed vice president of sales at Advantest America Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.). His experience is in the area of semiconductor automated test equipment. Phone: 1-408-844-7805
Dan Cormack was named COO of Semi Dice Inc. (Los Alamitos, Calif.). He continues to serve as senior vice president and has been with the company since 1982. Phone: 1-562-594-4631
Kerry Eszlinger was promoted to vice president and COO of Jon Goldman Associates Inc. (Orange, Calif.). He has been with the company since 1992. Phone: 1-714-283-5889
Neal Murphy was named senior vice president and CFO of International Specialty Products Inc. (Wayne, N.J.). His background is in corporate finance and accounting. Phone: 1-973-872-4200
John Aldeborgh was appointed to the newly created position of vice president, sales and marketing for Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. (Gloucester, Mass.). He has more than 17 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry. Phone: 1-978-282-2000
Richard Aurelio, president and CEO of Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, was elected to the board of directors of Mykrolis Corp. (Bedford, Mass.). This increases the number of board members to seven. Phone: 1-781-533-2980
John Hsuan, vice chairman of UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan), was named CEO of the company. He brings sales and marketing experience to the position. Phone: 886-3-578-2258
Buzz Gibbons was named Western regional sales manager of Thornton Inc. (Waltham, Mass). He brings instrumentation experience to the position and is based in Irvine, Calif. Phone: 1-781-839-6400
Mike Adams was appointed Western U.S. sales manager for Advanced Research Technologies' (Saint-Laurent, Canada) ISIS product line of infrared verification systems. Phone: 1-514-832-0777
J. Patrick Rymer joined Tosoh SET (Dublin, Calif.) as vice president of engineering. He brings experience in PVD engineering and plasma etching to the position. Phone: 1-925-560-6000
Jay James was appointed director of business development at Santa Barbara Infrared (Santa Barbara, Calif.). He has more than 15 years’ experience in the defense and commercial infrared industry. Phone: 1-805-965-3669
Simon Fisher joined BTG (London) as associate vice president technology manager on the strategy, assessment and marketing team (SAM), within the electronics, engineering and information technologies (E2IT) division. He brings more than 10 years of marketing and business development experience to the position. Phone: +44-20-7575-1628
Paul Bibeau was named corporate vice president of marketing at Microsemi Corp. (Irvine, Calif.). He previously served as a marketing executive at Texas Instruments. Phone: 1-949-221-7100
Lawrence Schmutz was named president of International Light Inc. (Newburyport, Mass.). He holds 21 patents in the fields of adaptive optics, machine vision, micro-optics, imaging and display technology. Phone: 1-978-465-5923
