People in the News
-- Semiconductor International, 5/1/2001
Jeremy Jones was named vice president of new business at Cabot Microelectronics Corp. (Aurora, Ill.). He has been with the company since 1998. |  |
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Also at Leeman Labs, Inc., Elizabeth L. Laughlin was named director of customer service. She has more than 17 years' experience in field service management. Phone: 1-603-886-8400
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Minoru Morio, vice chairman and director of Sony Corp., was elected to the Applied Materials (Santa Clara, Calif.) board of directors. He is an industry veteran, with Sony since 1963. Phone: 1-408-727-5555
Krista O'Reilly was promoted to the newly created position of customer communications team leader at Abrasive Technology Inc. (Lewis Center, Ohio). In addition, Leanne Dome was named process development and quality engineer in the research/quality group, and Jason Williamson was named information technology specialist in the IT group. Phone: 1-740-548-4100
Betty Ann Kram was named director of corporate communications and investor relations at INFICON (East Syracuse, N.Y.). She has been with the company since 1987. Phone: 1-315-434-1100
Barry Ritchie joined Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.) as field application engineer for the Americas electronics team. He is based in Meriden, Conn., and responsible for the northeastern region, which includes the Middle Atlantic states and New England. Phone: 1-517-496-6000
Gerald Li was named president of KLA-Tencor China (Shanghai). He brings more than 17 years of semiconductor industry experience to the position. Phone: 86-21-503-11540
Jeffrey L. Clifford joined Bay Voltex Corp. (Livermore, Calif.) as Western region sales manager for its thermal control products. He has 30 years of diversified semiconductor industry experience. Phone: 1-925-606-6293
Allen Foster was named getter specialist of Johnson Matthey Gas Processing Technology's (Wayne, Pa.) new getter line of gas purification equipment. He has more than 10 years of manufacturing expertise, as well as customer service experience. Phone: 1-610-971-3100
Mike Reilly was appointed vice president of engineering at Electro-Graph Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.). He joined the company in 1984 and has more than 15 years' experience in design, engineering and manufacture of ion sources and PECVD and PVD processing hardware. Phone: 1-760-438-9090
Matthew Murphy was appointed vice president of engineering at Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose). He has more than 18 years of engineering management experience. Phone: 1-408-432-0888
Keith Perry was named executive vice president of Numetrics Management Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.). He brings 23 years of experience to the position and will focus on expanding the company's worldwide customer base. Phone: 1-408-562-5750
R. Brad Lawrence was appointed vice president and general manager of PRI Automation Inc.'s (Billerica, Mass.) factory systems division. He has 30 years of sales, marketing, manufacturing operations and general management experience. Phone: 1-978-670-4270
Joachim Nell was named corporate vice president sales, marketing and investor relations of Jusung Engineering Co. Ltd. (Gwangju, Korea). He is responsible for increasing the international sales and establishing corporate global structures. Phone: 82-31-760-7108
Patricia Stubban joined Melles Griot (Irvine, Calif.) as general manager for the photonics components division. She brings 19 years of experience in operations and general management to the position. Phone: 1-949-261-5600
David Kent was named general manager of Agilent Technologies' (Palo Alto, Calif.) electrical manufacturing test division. He has been with the company since 1981. Phone: 1-970-679-3399
Jim Cannon joined Thornton Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) as director of global sales. He will help expand international sales under the MTPRO-Thornton banner. He has 20 years' experience in ultrapure water sales. Phone: 1-781-839-6400
