AEHR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President, R & D
Prior to joining Aehr, Dr. Ray-Chaudhuri served as Vice President of Hardware Engineering at FARO Technologies, a global company which is a leader in 3D imaging and visualization. He started his career in semiconductor capital equipment with KLA-Tencor where he spent 16 years and also worked at Nanometrics and Lumentum in executive positions in product development and program management. Dr. Ray-Chaudhuri received a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University - both degrees in Electrical Engineering.
Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Siu served as Senior Vice President Finance, Corporate Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer at Ultra Clean Technologies, a global leading developer and supplier of critical subsystems, and ultra-high purity clean and analytical services, for the semiconductor equipment industry. He is a semiconductor industry veteran, and previously held senior management roles at GlobalFoundries, a multinational semiconductor foundry, and at Trident Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company. He began his career in public accounting with EY and Deloitte and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in California. Mr. Siu received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University in Hawaii and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ms. Danesh is a technology industry veteran, with 30 years of executive-level technology and operating leadership in multiple enterprise and consumer hardware markets, with special emphasis on semiconductor, photonics, telecommunications, and data storage. She is currently COO at PsiQuantum, a quantum computing startup based in Palo Alto, CA that is using silicon photonics to build the world's first useful quantum computer, applying existing semiconductor and photonics manufacturing processes.
Geoff Scott was appointed to the Company's Board of Directors in September 2020. From 1995 to 2017, he was President of Scott Asset Management, an investment group focused on industry leading small cap companies. He previously served as Vice President of Merrill Lynch in the Capital Markets Group, and was employed by Chase Manhattan Bank in the Corporate Banking Group. Mr. Scott received a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Dr. Oliphant joined the Company's Board of Directors in July 2019. She was previously the CEO of Translarity, a venture funded probe card company. From 2001 to 2016, she served as an Investment Director at Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital organization, where she made and managed investments in the semiconductor capital equipment and materials area and received Intel's highest award for the strategic impact of her contributions. She is a holder of the National Association of Corporate Directors Board Leadership Fellowship. Dr. Oliphant received a BE in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Richmond was co-founder, member of the Board of Directors, and Vice President of Operations at ChipScale Inc. / Micro SMT Inc., a leader in chip scale packaging of semiconductor ICs & discrete circuits. Prior to that, Mr. Richmond served as president of TEAM Holdings LTD. / TEAM International LTD., a semiconductor packaging subcontract. Mr. Richmond has over 40 years of executive and general management, operations, customer support and R&D program management experience dating back to the mid-1970s when he began his career in semiconductor design with Signetics Corporation. Mr. Richmond received a B.S.E.E. Technology from DeVry Institute Arizona.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Contactor Business
Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Sporck was President and Owner of a local company supplying components to the Wafer Probecard industry. Prior to that Mr. Sporck was a Vice President at Formfactor, a leading provider of Wafer Test Equipment. During his time at Formfactor he held various executive management positions in Design Operations, and Product Development. Mr. Sporck has over 30 years of experience in the Semiconductor Test industry and began his career with LSI Logic, a major Semiconductor company. Mr. Sporck received a MSEE from Santa Clara University.
He is the founder of the Company and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors from its inception in 1977 until 2012. From 2012 until 2013, Mr. Posedel served as Executive Chairman. From the Company's inception through May 2000, Mr. Posedel also served as President. Prior to founding the Company, Mr. Posedel held various project engineering and engineering managerial positions at Lockheed Martin Corporation (formerly "Lockheed Missile & Space Corporation"), Ampex Corporation, and Cohu, Inc. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University and an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President / Sales and Marketing
Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Rogers served as head of sales and marketing at GES preceding its acquisition by Kimball Electronics. Mr. Rogers, over the past 22 years, has held numerous senior executive sales, marketing and operations management positions, successfully building multi-channel sales distribution and support organizations at both public and start-up technology companies in the semiconductor and system level test space. His career has focused on nanoscale inspection, manufacturing, and test technologies with such leaders as LitePoint (acquired by Teradyne), Credence Systems Corporation (acquired by Xcerra), NPTest (acquired by Credence Systems) and Schlumberger Automated Test Equipment. He also oversaw sales for FlexStar Technology, a Bay Area leader in hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state disk drives (SSD) test and burn-in. Mr. Rogers received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.