21 March 2012
Fujitsu’s board of directors has approved the following appointments, resignations and promotions effective from April 1, 2012. The announcement includes the appointment of Kazuhiro Igarashi and Yoshihiko Hanada as the company’s two new corporate senior VPs. All 44 executives, other than those mentioned below will remain in their current posts.
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20 February 2012

STMicroelectronics CFO, Carlo Ferro is to head-up operations at
struggling ST-Ericsson as chief operating officer of the company. Mario
Arlati, ST’s chief accounting officer will take on the CFO role at
STMicroelectronics.
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09 November 2011

Peter Smith has been brought on as CEO during a reshuffle at Voltaix. He
is replacing Mark Fine who served as interim CEO since January 2010. He
will have responsibility for a number of the company's strategic
initiatives and will oversee relationships with distributor partners
world-wide. Fine is taking up the post of president, in place of John de
Neufville, who will continue as the company's chief scientist,
overseeing chemical research and end-use applications development.
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13 October 2011

Having presented awards the previous day at the Semicon Europa Executive
Summit, Heinz Kundert himself received the IC Industry Award
for leadership, which was presented on October
12, 2011, at SEMICON Europa, in Dresden.
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15 August 2011

A related industry association head has been selected to succeed Stan
Myers as president and CEO of SEMI. Dennis “Denny” P. McGuirk the former
president and CEO of trade association, IPC – Association Connecting
Electronics Industries will take-over the reigns, effective November 14,
2011. Myers announced his plans to retire in April and the SEMI
International Board of Directors subsequently initiated a globally
comprehensive search process.
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08 August 2011

Dr. Tzu-Yin Chiu, the former President and CEO of Hua Hong NEC
Electronics has been selected as the new CEO and Executive Director of
SMIC, effective immediately. Dr. Chiu has over 27 years of experience in
the industry.
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02 August 2011

Dr. Hans Betz, Advanced Energy's chief executive officer since 2005, is
retiring from the role, effective August 4, 2011, though he will
continue as an advisor until December 31, 2011. His replacement is Garry
Rogerson, Ph.D, chairman of the board of Coherent and previously chief
executive officer of Varian, Inc.
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15 July 2011

Dr. Graham Leggett has joined Tiger Optics as its new product manager of
its environmental division that supplies laser-based trace gas
analyzers. Dr. Leggett previously served as a project director and
manager at AEA Technology plc.
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24 June 2011

Specialty and electronic gases firm, Matheson has appointed Ashok Mathur
as Director of Corporate Commercialization for the Corporate Marketing
Group based in Montgomeryville, PA. Mathur will focus on industrial gas
application development and new products and services to our customers
in the clean energy, environmental and emerging technologies markets.
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21 June 2011

Citing increased demand for its non-visual defect (NVD) inspection
systems, Qcept Technologies has appointed Richard Hong, as president,
Asia-Pacific. Hong, who previously served as president of KLA-Tencor
Korea, will be responsible for driving Qcept's sales and strategic
partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region. Qcept's has also established a
subsidiary in Korea.
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