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Board of DirectorsCharles J. Abbe
Director since January 2003Charles J. Abbe
Director since January 2003
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, chief executive officer and director 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... |
|  | Bob Akins
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board since January 1986Bob Akins
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board since January 1986
Bob Akins, co-founder of Cymer, has served as the company’s chairman and CEO since its inception in 1986. He currently serves on the boards of directors of KLA-Tencor Corp., and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). Akins is also a member of the council of advisors to the Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD, and has served on the board of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Foundation. Together with Cymer co-founder Rick Sandstrom, Akins receive... |
| | Edward H. Braun
Director since March 2003 & Executive Session ChairEdward H. Braun
Director since March 2003 & Executive Session Chair
Edward H. Braun has served as a director of Cymer since March 2003. Mr. Braun has been chairman of the Board of Veeco Instruments, Inc since January 1990. In addition, he was Veeco’s chief executive officer from January 1990 to July 2007. Mr. Braun is a director emeritus of the Board of Directors of SEMI, of which he was chairman of the board in 1993. Mr. Braun received a BSME from Clarkson College of Technology.
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| | Michael R. Gaulke
Director since September 2000Michael R. Gaulke
Director since September 2000
Michael R. Gaulke has served as a director of Cymer since August 2000. Since 1996 Mr. Gaulke has served as chief executive officer and director and became chairman of the board in May 2007 of Exponent, Inc., a nationally recognized engineering and scientific consulting firm that performs in-depth investigations in more than 90 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 f... |
| | William G. Oldham, Ph.D.
Director since January 2001William G. Oldham, Ph.D.
Director since January 2001
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’s research interest is in semiconductor materials and process technology, including optical and extreme ultraviolet lithography. He has published more than 200 articles and holds 13 patents. He also served as an outside consul... |
| | Eric M. Ruttenberg
Director since October 2009Eric M. Ruttenberg
Director since October 2009
Eric M. Ruttenberg joined the Cymer Board of Directors in October 2009. Mr. Ruttenberg serves as Co - Managing Member of the General Partner of Tinicum Capital Partners II, L.P., a New York based investment firm. Mr. Ruttenberg also currently serves as a director of several of Tinicum’s privately held portfolio companies. Mr. Ruttenberg has previously served on the boards of several public companies, namely SPS Technologies and Kollmorgen Corporation. Mr. Ruttenberg received a B.A. from Hamp... |
| | Peter J. Simone
Director since July 1993Peter J. Simone
Director since July 1993
Peter J. Simone has served as a director of Cymer since July 1993. Mr. Simone is an independent consultant to the investment community and serves on the boards of directors of Newport Corporation, Monotype Imaging, Inc. and Veeco Instruments, Inc., as well as several private companies. 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. Mr. Simone’s previous experience inclu... |
| | Young K. Sohn
Director since March 2003Young K. Sohn
Director since March 2003
Young K. Sohn has served as a director of Cymer since March 2003. Mr. Sohn currently serves as chief executive officer of a private semiconductor company, Inphi Corporation. From May 2005 through December 2007, Sohn was an independent consultant to the high technology industry. He 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... |
| | Jon D. Tompkins
Director since May 1999Jon D. Tompkins
Director since May 1999
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 ... |
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