Charles J. Abbe has served as a director of Cymer since January 2003. Mr. Abbe served as president and chief operating officer and as director of JDS Uniphase Corporation from February 2000 until his retirement in June 2001. He was employed previously as president and chief executive officer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. from 1996 until the company merged with JDS Uniphase in February 2000. From 1990 to 1996, he served in several positions of increasing responsibility, including senior vice president, electronics sector, at Raychem Corporation in Menlo Park, California. Mr. Abbe practiced business consulting with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco, California from 1971 to 1989, serving the last seven years as a senior partner. Mr. Abbe also serves as director of CoSine Communications, Inc., a publicly held company and as a director of several privately financed technology companies. He began his career with the United States Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory in Edwards, California. Mr. Abbe received a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Robert P. Akins, Ph.D., one of Cymer's co-founders, has served as its chairman and chief executive officer since its inception in 1986, and served as president of the company as well from its inception until May 2000. He currently serves on the boards of directors of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) and SEMI North America. He is also a member of the council of advisors to the Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and serves on the board of the UC San Diego Foundation. Akins received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for San Diego County in 1997, and with fellow co-founder Rick Sandstrom, received the outstanding alumnus award from UCSD, and the prestigious SEMI Award for North America, the highest honor conferred by SEMI, in 1996 for contributions to the field of DUV lithography. He received a bachelor's degree in physics, a bachelor's degree in literature, and a doctorate in applied physics from the University of California, San Diego.
Edward H. Braun has served as a director of Cymer since March 2003. Mr. Braun has been a director and chairman, and chief executive officer of Veeco Instruments, Inc. since January 1990, and was its president from January 1990 to May 2000 and from October 2000 to March 2003. Prior to 1990, Mr. Braun was employed as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Veeco's predecessor company (now Lambda Electronics, Inc.). Mr. Braun joined Veeco's predecessor company in 1966 where he held numerous positions, including director of marketing, director of operations, and chief operating officer. Mr. Braun is director emeritus of the board of directors of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, of which he was Chairman of the Board in 1993, and also serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) - the Data Storage trade association. Mr. Braun received a BSME from Clarkson College of Technology and completed Stanford University's Executive Program for Management of High Technology Companies.
Michael R. Gaulke has served as a director of Cymer since August 2000. Since 1996, Mr. Gaulke has served as president and chief executive officer and a director of Exponent, Inc., a nationally recognized engineering and scientific consulting firm that performs in-depth investigations in more than 70 technical disciplines to analyze failures and accidents to determine their causes. He first joined Exponent, Inc. in September 1992 as executive vice president and chief financial officer. In March 1993 he was named president and was appointed as a member of the board of directors in January 1994. Prior to 1992, Mr. Gaulke served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Raynet Corporation, which pioneered a fiber-to-the-curb architecture for telecommunications. Before that, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Spectra-Physics, a leading manufacturer of a broad range of lasers and laser-related products. Prior to Spectra-Physics, Mr. Gaulke was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Gaulke received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. In addition to serving on the Boards of Cymer and Exponent, he is also a director of LECG Inc. and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
William G. Oldham, Ph.D. has served as a director of Cymer since January 2001. He is the Robert S. Pepper Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1964. Dr. Oldham is presently involved in researching optical and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography and maskless lithography for applications at feature sizes smaller than 100nm, and was previously involved in research in semiconductor materials and process technology. He has also served on our scientific advisory board since its inception in 1999. Dr. Oldham's university activities have included serving as director of the California SEMATECH Center of Excellence from 1988 to 1996, and as director of the DARPA/SRC Research Network from 1996 to the present. He served as program manager for dynamic RAM technology development and circuit design at Intel Corp. from 1974 to 1976, and worked at Siemens Research Laboratory in Erlangen, Germany from 1963 to 1964. Dr. Oldham frequently consults with various electronics and automotive manufacturers and with legal firms on intellectual property matters. In March 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Semiconductor Industry Association's University Research Award for his career contributions to the semiconductor industry. He also serves on the board of directors of Nanometrics Incorporated. Dr. Oldham has published more than 200 articles and holds nine patents in semiconductor electronics. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Peter J. Simone has served as a director of Cymer since July 1993. Mr. Simone is an independent consultant to several private companies and the investment community, and serves on the boards of directors of Zoran Corporation, Newport Corporation, and Sanmina-SCI Corporation. Mr. Simone was executive chairman of SpeedFam-IPEC, Inc., a semiconductor equipment company from June 2001 to December 2002 when it was acquired by Novellus Systems, Inc. He was a director of Active Control eXperts, Inc. ("ACX"), a leading supplier of precision motion control and smart structures technology, while also serving as a consultant, then President from January 2000 to February 2001 when it was acquired by Cymer. He served as president, CEO and director of Xionics Document Technologies, Inc., a provider of embedded software solutions for printer and copier original equipment manufacturers from April 1997 until Xionics' merger with Oak Technology, Inc. in January 2000. Mr. Simone served as Group Vice President of Simplex Time Recorder Company, Inc., a supplier of time management, building life safety and security software/hardware solutions, from 1992 through 1996. From 1974 through 1992, Mr. Simone held various management positions, including President and director of GCA Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor photolithography capital equipment. Mr. Simone received a B.S. in accounting from Bentley College and a M.B.A. from Babson College.
Young K. Sohn has served as a director of Cymer since March 2003. Mr. Sohn currently serves as a consultant to the high technology industry. Mr. Sohn served as president of the Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) at Agilent Technologies Inc. from October 2003 through April 2005. Prior to joining Agilent, he served as president and chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Oak Technology, Inc. which was acquired by Zoran Corporation in August 2003. Prior to joining Oak Technology, Inc. in 1999, Mr. Sohn was employed by Quantum Corporation for six years, serving most recently as president of its Hard Drive Business. From August 1983 to January 1993, he was director of marketing at Intel Corporation. Mr. Sohn also serves on the board of directors of Synnex Information Technologies, Inc. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. (M.B.A.) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
Jon D. Tompkins has served as a director of Cymer since May 1999. Mr. Tompkins served as chief executive officer of KLA-Tencor Corporation from April 1997 until June 1998 and served as chairman of the board of KLA-Tencor from July 1998 until his retirement in 1999. He served as president and chief executive officer of Tencor Instruments from April 1991 until its merger with KLA Instruments in April 1997 and chairman of the board from November 1993 until the merger. He has also previously served as president and chief executive officer of Spectra-Physics. Since April 2003, Mr. Tompkins has served as chairman of the board of Electro Scientific Industries, and currently serves on the board of directors of Credence Systems. Mr. Tompkins received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington and a M.B.A. from Stanford University with an emphasis in finance and accounting.
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