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Intevac Welcomes Christopher Smith as Executive VP
The semiconductor and solar capital equipment market veteran has previously held senior management positions at Applied Materials and Cymer. He will now focus on capital equipment in the Emerging Markets division.
Intevac has appointed Christopher Smith as Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets. Incorporating solar and semiconductor products, Smith will be responsible for managing and growing Intevac's capital equipment businesses.
With over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor and solar capital equipment markets, Smith is joining Intevac from Oerlikon Solar, where he served as Senior VP Sales and Customer Support.
He has previously held senior management positions at Applied Materials and Cymer.
"We are very pleased to welcome Chris to the company in a key senior management position," commented Kevin Fairbairn, President and CEO of Intevac. "Chris has proven general management experience as well as extensive experience managing sales, service and business development in large and emerging equipment markets."
Luke Marusiak, who held the position previously, will return to his earlier role as Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for manufacturing, materials, customer service and corporate services.
Intevac was founded in 1991 and is a leading supplier of magnetic media processing systems to the hard drive industry and offers high productivity solutions to the photovoltaic and semiconductor industries.
Invetac also develops and manufactures high-sensitivity imaging products and vision systems, as well as table-top and handheld Raman instruments. Markets addressed include military, industrial, medical and scientific.
