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05/01/2004
 Tom Nash |
BTU International has appointed Tom Nash as VP of marketing, overseeing corporate marketing and working closely with the executive team on strategy to expand the company's product and customer base. Nash served most recently as president of CIMCIS Ltd., and holds a US patent for an automated PCB handling system.
International Sematech (ISMT) has named Charles Ramiller of IBM as director of its Front End Processes Division. Ramiller will serve a three-year assignment at ISMT, lending his experience in developing processes and equipment, leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, and conducting collaborative R&D to the consortium.
The IEEE CPMT Society has named a new president and several officers for 2004: Philip Garrou will take over for outgoing president Rao R. Tummala. Garrou has authored two texts on microelectronics and co-authored more than 75 peer-reviewed chapters and publications on microelectronic materials. Rolf Aschenbrenner will serve as VP of technical activities; he previously served as the strategic program director of European activities. S.W. Ricky Lee, a senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of ASME, will serve as VP of conferences.
 David McQuiddy |
TriQuint Semiconductor VP David McQuiddy and Anadigics Inc. chairman and co-founder Ronald Rosenzweig were among those honored for contributions to the semiconductor field with an Industry Pioneer award from the Compound Semi Industry Outlook 2004 panel. McQuiddy was acknowledged for his work with gallium arsenide microwave semiconductor technology, and Rosenzweig's work with advanced microwave and millimeter-wave semiconductor devices was recognized.
PowerDsine has named Kenneth Levy as chairman of its board of directors. Levy is currently the chairman at KLA-Tencor, having founded KLA Instruments, which merged with Tencor Instruments in 1976; he is also a director emeritus of Semi. He will advise the company on strategic opportunities to maintain its position in delivering PoE solutions based on the IEEE 802.3af standard.
Andigilog has named Bill Sheppard, former VP of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing group, as its CEO. He previously served on the company's board of directors, and has contributed to several venture-backed startups, including Microlab and Micro Phoenix Integration. Sheppard takes over for Carl Liepold, who will become the company's CTO.
Princeton Lightwave Inc. has appointed three senior executives in R&D and operations: Alka Swanson, executive VP in charge of sales, marketing, and business development; Sabbir Rangwala, VP of products and operations; and Mark Itzler, CTO. All three executives recently were at the EPITAXX division of JDS Uniphase.