Lattice Semiconductor has named former Unisem Group CEO Bruno Guilmart as its new President and CEO, effective from July 7th. The appointment follows the resignation from the role of Steve Skaggs at the end of May and the subsequent appointment of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jan Johannessen as Interim CEO. 

Picarro, a manufacturer of high performance lasers and laser-based instruments, has boosted its sales and marketing teams with the addition of Iain Green (pictured) as Director of Marketing and Mark Davis as Vice President of Sales. Between them, they bring over 30 years of experience to the company. 

Bringing over 25 years of sales management experience to the company, Matthew Ready (pictured) has been appointed to the Senior Vice President role where he will oversee all company sales. He will report to company CEO Ronnie Vasishta, and will take up responsibility for the company’s sales strategy and for expanding the company’s sales channel partners. 

Rolf Deusinger, a member of the Advisory Board for ASML, has announced his resignation from the role with immediate effect. A member of the Board since July 2007, Mr. Deusinger has accepted a new position with another company, hence his departure from ASML. 

In the seventh executive appointment for International Rectifier since February (see below), the company has announced the appointment of Mike Brown as Chief Information Officer. Mr. Brown joins the company from Freedom Communications, Inc., where he also held the CIO role. 

In an effort at cutting costs and improving operating performance, Xilinx, Inc. has decided to cut 7% of its workforce, which represents approximately 250 employees. The cuts will incur charges of between $18 and $22 million, the majority of which cost will be recorded in the company’s 1Q09 fiscal report. The job losses are expected to be put into effect by the end of the next fiscal quarter.

Currently serving as company President, Mario Ruscev (pictured) has been promoted to the role of CEO for FormFactor, replacing company founder Igor Khandros. Mr. Khandros now assumes the role of Executive Chairman of the company Board of Directors, in turn succeeding Jim Prestridge, who takes up the mantle of lead independent Director. All executive changes will come into effect at the beginning of the company’s fiscal third quarter of 2008. 

KMG Chemicals, Inc. has announced the addition of two new members to its Board of Directors and the retirement of one of its long-serving executives, Charles Neff, who retires after 17 years of service. Joining the board are Gerald G. Ermentrout and Christopher T. Fraser, two veterans of the chemicals industry. 

Former Nvidia executive Alex Garcia has joined International Rectifier as Vice President of Compliance, and will oversee the company’s corporate compliance programs and internal audit function. He joins the company from his former role as Senior Director and Head of Internal Audit at Nvidia Corp.