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Concentrated solar thermal specialist Ausra, Inc has a new President & COO. Dr. Thomas Caulfield, formerly Executive Vice President of Sales at Novellus Systems has joined the company to accelerate the company's transition from a power plant developer to a global solar steam systems provider. Dr. Caulfield was selected after an extensive, nationwide search of senior executives with strong technical and OEM backgrounds. Read more >>

Succeeding Shimpei Hirata who has returned to Japan to take up a new position with Fujitsu's Electronic Devices Division, Dr. Joji Murakami, a Fujitsu career executive been named as the company’s new President. He is based at FME's European headquarters in Langen, near Frankfurt. Brendan Mc Kearney, Vice President, Sales and Supply Chain at FME, has been appointed Managing Director of FME. Read more >>

Globalfoundries continues to bulk-up its executive team with the appointment of former UMC manager, Jim Ballingall as Vice President of Marketing. Ballingall is expected to report to another ex-UMC executive and recently hired, Jim Kupec. Ballingall will be responsible for creating a ‘best-in-class’ foundry marketing organization, according to the company. Read more >>

CVD Equipment has hired Michael J. Gray as Vice President of Sales and Marketing to head up all sales and marketing functions for the company, working from the Ronkonkoma, New York headquarters. Read more >>

Sally Turner has joined Swagelok as director of human resource services, replacing Trina Rauscher who took on the role in April last year. In this new position, Turner will be responsible for directing activities in the company's benefits, human resources information systems, corporate training and development, staffing, and organizational development groups. Read more >>

Semiconductor giant, Hynix has appointed new chief marketing director, Ji Bum Kim, who will replace, Dae Su Kim, who has resigned. Read more >>

Swagelok Company, developer and provider of fluid system solutions, has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Minnick as the director of operational accounting; meaning that he will be responsible for cost management and corporate budgeting as well as running the internal audit function for the worldwide organization. Read more >>

The Governing Board of the ENIAC Joint Undertaking has appointed Andreas Wild as the initiative's Executive Director, starting as of 1 September 2009. Read more >>

Intensifying its focus on analog foundry processing capabilities, Dongbu HiTek’s Semiconductor Division announced that Felicia James has joined the company as Strategy Director of its Analog Foundry Business Unit (AFBU), a new position reporting to Lou N. Hutter, SVP and GM of the Unit. Read more >>

Co-founder and former CEO of Oslo, Norway-based REC Reidar Langmo has accepted his seat on the board of directors of Voltaix, the semiconductor materials provider. Mr. Langmo was also a founding partner and CEO of Novus Energy Partners, from which company Voltaix has recently received an investment worth $9 million. Read more >>