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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board Committee Composition
Director	Audit	Nominating & Governance	Compensation
Howard Bain III	Chair
J. Thomas Bentley	Member		Chair
Norman Coates		Member
Stephen G. Newberry			Member
William G. Oldham		Chair	Member
Bruce C. Rhine	Member
Stephen J. Smith		Member
Timothy J. Stultz

 

Bruce C. Rhine, Chairman of the Board

Bruce Rhine has served as our Chairman of the Board of Directors since July 2007 and as a director since July 2006. From July 2006 to February 2008, Mr. Rhine served as our Chief Strategy Officer. From March 2007 to August 2007, Mr. Rhine served as our Chief Executive Officer. From August 2000 to July 2006, Mr. Rhine served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Accent Optical Technologies, Inc. and as Accent Optical Technologies, Inc.’s President from January 2003 to April 2005 and from August 2000 to September 2001. Mr. Rhine holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University.

 

Timothy J. Stultz, President & CEO

Timothy Stultz has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since August 2007. From June 2003 to August 2007, Dr. Stultz served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Imago Scientific Instruments Corporation, a supplier of proprietary 3-D atom probe microscopes to the research materials and microelectronics industries. Prior to Imago, Dr. Stultz served as President and Chief Executive Officer for ThauMDx, a developer of diagnostic systems and technologies for the analysis of biomolecules, drugs and chemicals. Dr. Stultz received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

 

Howard Bain III

Howard A. Bain III has served on our Board since April 2008. He is also a director of Learning Tree International, Inc. and several private venture capital financed companies. Since 2004, he has been an independent consultant in all aspects of corporate finance. He held Chief Financial Officer positions at several public companies including: Portal Software from 2001 to 2004, Vicinity Corporation in 2000, Informix from 1999 to 2000, and Symantec Corporation from 1991 to 1999. He has additional experience in various technology companies in the areas of semiconductor devices and manufacturing equipment; laser-based large screen projection systems; and computer disk drives. He was a consultant with Arthur Andersen LLP where he was a certified public accountant. Mr. Bain holds a B.S. in Business from California Polytechnic University.

 

J. Thomas Bentley

J. Thomas Bentley has served as a director since April 2004. Mr. Bentley served as a Managing Director at SVB Alliant (formerly Alliant Partners), a mergers and acquisitions firm, since he co-founded the firm in 1990 until October 2005. Mr. Bentley currently serves on the board of directors of Rambus, Inc., a chip interface technology company. Mr. Bentley holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University and a Masters of Science in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Norman Coates

Norman Coates has served as director since August 2009.  He previously served on the Nanometrics Board of Directors from 1985 - 2006.  Mr. Coates is a successful entrepreneur and businessman and has managed Gem of the River Produce and Coates Vineyards for the past 35 years.

 

Stephen G. Newberry

Stephen Newberry joined our Board in May 2011. Mr. Newberry serves as Vice Chairman of Lam’s Board of Directors. He joined Lam in August 1997 as executive vice president and chief operating officer and served as CEO from 2005 through 2011. Mr. Newberry also serves as a director of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), the industry's trade association. In addition, Mr. Newberry serves as a member of the Haas Advisory Board, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley and as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council, University of California at Davis Graduate School of Management. Prior to joining Lam Research, Mr. Newberry was group vice president of global operations and planning at Applied Materials, Inc. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

 

William G. Oldham

William Oldham has served as a director since June 2000 and as lead independent director from May 2007 through August 2008. Dr. Oldham, now Professor Emeritus, was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley from 1964 to 2003. He serves on the board of directors of Cymer, Inc., a supplier of light sources for deep ultraviolet photolithography systems. Dr. Oldham holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology.

 

Stephen J. Smith

Stephen Smith has served as a director since April 2004. Dr. Smith has been a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine since 1989. Dr. Smith holds a B.A. degree from Reed College and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.