KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES - Key Persons
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- Senior Vice President, Central Engineering and Chief Technology Officer
- Vice President of Central Engineering and Chief Technology Officer
Bob is currently the Vice President of Central Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the research and development of packaging solutions across all K&S products.
He started his career at K&S in the 1980's and has held many roles in the organization such as Wire Bonding Development Engineer, Equipment Development Director, and Vice President of Process Engineering. He was at the forefront of the technology development for Copper wire bonding. Currently, he is leading our R&D and pathfinding for advanced packaging.
Bob has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and has published more than 50 papers with multiple patents.
Bob holds a Bachelor's degree and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University. He has also completed courses on Management Studies at Stanford University and MIT Sloan.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- General Manager
- Executive Vice President & General Manager, Products & Solutions
Chan Pin was appointed as Executive Vice President & General Manager, K&S' Products and Solutions in December, 2019.
He joined K&S in 2014 as Vice President of Wedge Bonders business unit and has successfully turnaround the business and led the team to higher growth by diversifying the business into the battery bonding market.
Chan Pin is a technology industry veteran with more than 24 years of engineering and operations experience in the semiconductor and electronics industry. He started his career first as a Process and Test Engineer at Motorola Pagers and Cellular group and pioneered multiple factories in Asia before advancing to the role of Manufacturing Manager at Flextronics. In 1999, Chan Pin joined KLA-Tencor and held a number of diverse positions, including Senior Technical Director of Engineering and General Manager of Strategic Business Unit in Greater China. Chan Pin then pioneered the efforts of starting the MEMS factory in Singapore when he became the Vice President of Sales and General Manager at Form Factor. Most recently, he was the Global President & CEO at Everett Charles Technologies, managing and leading in test and probe technologies.
Chan Pin received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. A Singaporean national, he is a military reserve (National Service, NS) Brigade 2nd in Command of a combined arms division.
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- Retired Chief Operating Officer / LSI Corporation / Non - Executive Director
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- President - Titanium Technologies / the Chemours Company
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- President & Chief Executive Officer / Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc
- President and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO
Dr Chen joins K&S from Mattson Technology, Inc. where he was the President and CEO. Under his leadership, the company turned around years of losses to generate significant revenue growth and achieved sustained profitability.
Dr Chen previously served as an Executive Vice President at Novellus Systems, with the responsibility for all semiconductor business units. Prior to this position, he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Novellus, with the responsibility for defining the company's technology strategy and direction. As the CTO, Fusen was Novellus' primary executive interface with customers in Asia.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Equipment Manufacturing Operations and Quality
Eugene joined K&S in January 2013, as Senior Director for Consumables Products (Capillaries and Blades). He was promoted to Vice President (VP) of Business Development and Product Marketing for the Aftermarket Product Services (APS) Business Unit in 2017. He was appointed as VP of Global Business Operations (Business fulfilment and Sales Operations) in 2019. Most recently, he has been appointed as Vice President, Equipment Manufacturing Operations and Quality.
Eugene has more than 30 years' experience in the Semiconductor industry, holding various positions in Business Development and Product Management with several NASDAQ listed Semiconductor equipment and material companies in California. He has also served as GM Sales Head for Greater China for two US subsidiaries, stationed in Taiwan.
Eugene holds a Masters degree in Materials Science Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, USA.
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- Retired President & Chief Executive Officer / Barnes Group Inc.
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- Retired Chief Financial Officer / AMD, Inc. Non - Executive Director
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- Executive Vice President, Finance and IT and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Wong joined K&S in September 2011, as General Counsel & Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, and is most recently appointed the Company's Chief Financial Officer (Finance, IT & Facilities).
Mr Wong has over 20 years of legal leadership at U.S. listed and Asian-based companies with a wealth of experience in global corporate law.
Mr Wong previously served as General Counsel of Gigamedia Limited, a company listed on NASDAQ. Prior to that, he was a Senior Legal Counsel at NASDAQ listed CDC Corporation. He was also an executive with Cowen Latitude Asia, the wholly-owned Asia investment bank subsidiary of the Cowen Group.
Mr Wong was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1993, Law Society of British Columbia in 1993 and Law Society of Hong Kong in 1997. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
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- Non - Executive Director / Singapore Exchange Ltd / Non - Executive Director
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- Vice President, Global Human Resources
Lisa joined K&S in January 2012, as Vice President of Global Human Resources.
She comes to K&S with over 14 years of HR experience in both the public and private sector and has a wealth of international HR experience in the Asian markets.
Prior to joining K&S, Lisa was with Dell and held various instrumental roles. She was responsible for talent management, leadership development, and organizational development.
Lisa is a seasoned strategic HR professional with a strong business acumen. She holds a Bachelor of Law from the National University of Singapore, an MBA from the London Business School and a Masters in Human Resource Management.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Vice President, Aftermarket Products & Services
Meng Kwong is currently the Vice President, leading the Aftermarket Products & Services Business Unit organization in Kulicke & Soffa. He is responsible for leading, expanding and creating competitive advantage of the Aftermarket Products and Services portfolio to drive market share gain and revenue growth.
Prior to joining K&S, MK was the General Manager of Mattson Support Product Group at Mattson Technology, a leading supplier of semiconductor processing equipment to the global semiconductor industry. He was responsible for the company's aftermarket products' business, global service organization and regional logistics operation. Before Mattson Technology, he was the General Manager of Customer Support Business Group for South East Asia regions at Lam Research and has a career that spans more than 20 years at leading semiconductor equipment companies including Novellus Systems and Applied Materials.
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- Senior Vice President
- K & S in 1997 As Application Manager
Nelson is currently the Senior Vice President of the Global Sales & Global Supply Chain at Kulicke & Soffa.
Nelson joined K&S in 1997 as Application Manager before moving on to lead the Ball Bonder Product Management team. Prior to joining K&S, Nelson was the Process and Packaging Engineering Manager at STMicroelectronics for 13 years.
Nelson holds an MBA degree and a degree in Physics from National University of Singapore.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Cheam joined K&S in September 2010, as Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development, and was most recently appointed as Vice President of Corporate Strategy. Cheam has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
Prior to joining K&S, Cheam was the Senior Director, Strategic Marketing at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. He was the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Chartered Semiconductor (now GLOBALFOUNDRIES). He has held numerous technical positions in IC Designing and Field Application Engineering at IBM Microelectronics, STMicroelectronics and Fairchild Semiconductor.
Cheam holds a Master of Science degree in Electronics from Queen's University of Belfast.
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- Retired Chief Financial Officer / Mediacorp Pte. Ltd.