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ASML Holding appoints Frederic Schneider-Maunoury as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) to the Board of Management. The company's Supervisory Board offers the position, subject to notification of the general meeting of shareholders, which is scheduled to be held on March 24, 2010. Read more >>

Ultratech, Inc., supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, has announced that Vincent F. Sollitto Jr., Principal at Scottsdale Partners International, LLC, has resigned from Ultratech's board of directors. Read more >>

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 >>