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Korean-based foundry, Dongbu HiTek has lured veteran Texas Instruments facilities expert and former VP of Worldwide Facilities, Shaunna Black to become its newly appointed Senior VP of Manufacturing Operations. Dongbu HiTek noted that the move was to strengthen its manufacturing core competency and reinforce its competitiveness in the analog IC foundry space. She will be responsible for directing its two existing 200mm wafer fabs, as well as its facilities, ESH, and test operations. Read more >>

MKS Instruments has made several changes in management including the promotion of Gerald G. Colella to chief operating officer and Seth H. Bagshaw to vice president and chief financial officer. Both will report to Leo Berlinghieri, company chief executive officer and president. Read more >>

Douglas Gray, who has been the area sales manager at Teknek for the past four years, has been promoted to European sales manager. The position's predecessor, David Westwood, has now taken on the position of general manager, Teknek USA at the company's new sales and fulfilment facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read more >>

Rudolph Technologies announced Wednesday that Tony Mullins will take up the role of director of global process control software sales immediately.

Mayson Brooks, Rudolph's vice president of global sales, believes that Mullins' experience will help him in the new position. "Tony brings a wealth of process control know-how to Rudolph," said Brooks.

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A new post of Chief Operating Officer has been created within Samsung Electronics for Jay Y. Lee, son of former Chairman Lee Kun-hee as part of a second management reshuffle in less than a year. Geesung Choi is its new CEO, while Ju-Hwa Yoon is appointed Chief Financial Officer. Yoon-woo Lee, currently Vice Chairman and CEO, continues only as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Read more >>

VLSI Research has named Michael A. Martinez to the newly created position of vice president. Reporting to VLSI's President Risto Puhakka, Martinez will use his new position to expand the company's sales and marketing operations and infrastructure. His responsibilities will include the sales and marketing of VLSI's main research products and services on weSRCH, the organisation's online discussion board for professionals in the industries of medicine, high technology and green technologies.

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Susan M. James has been elected to serve on Applied Materials' Board of Directors as a member of the Audit Committee. A former partner at Ernst & Young, she once served as partner-in-charge of the audit work for companies such as Sun Microsystems, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Autodesk and Amazon.com. After joining Ernst & Young in 1975, James became a partner in 1987 and served on Ernst & Young Americas Executive Board of Directors from January 2002 through June 2006. Read more >>

STMicroelectronics has announced plans to improve the effectiveness of its marketing and sales structure by merging regions in Asian into two categories: Greater China & South Asia and Japan & Korea. Effective from January 1, 2010, the change will also call for a restructuring in management within the regions. Read more >>

Future Horizons has entered the India market by signing up Pradeep Chakraborty as an affiliate. Chakraborty is a former Executive Editor of CyberMedia India Online Ltd (CIOL). Malcolm Penn, Chairman and CEO, Future Horizons regards Chakraborty as knowledgeable authority on semiconductors. He specialises in semiconductors as well as electronics applications and telecoms research and will represent Future Horizons in India and help promote the sale of documents, the Start Up Service, as well as Future Horizon’s International events, including the International Electronics Forum (IEF 2010) in May next year.
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Materials provider to the semiconductor and solar industries Voltaix has announced an executive management change as company founder and CEO Dr. John P. de Neufville has resigned his post. Remaining in the role of president, chairman and chief scientist for the company, Dr. de Neufville will be replaced in the CEO role on an interim basis by Mark K. Fine (left) from January 1, 2010. Matthew Stephens, COO, has also announced that he is departing the company to pursue other opportunities. Read more >>