Ed Brown (pictured), Cymer President and COO, has announced that Frank Hochstenbach has been named as President of Cymer Europe.  Mr. Hochstenbach will oversee the company’s European sales, marketing, finance and customer support. 

Mr. Hochstenbach joins Cymer from Bede Scientific, where he served as executive director of sales and marketing, applications and product development.  He was also a senior director of a global account at Applied Materials, helping in growing the company’s global account support team.  Hochstenbach also held engineering roles at ET Electrotech Ltd. and Philips.  He has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the School of Polytechnics in The Netherlands and studied sales and marketing in the Institute of Social Science in Eindhoven.

Cymer, Inc. is a DUV laser provider.

By Síle Mc Mahon