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.

Bruce A. Crawford, Chief Operating Officer
Bruce Crawford has served as our Chief Operating Officer since July 2006 and was Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis from September 2008 until February 2009. From July 2005 to July 2006, Mr. Crawford served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Accent Optical Technologies, Inc., a supplier of process control and metrology systems to the global semiconductor manufacturing industry, which we acquired in July 2006. From February 2003 to July 2005, Mr. Crawford served as Accent Optical’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President and from October 2000 to February 2003, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations. Mr. Crawford holds an A.S. degree from De Anza College.

Ronald W. Kisling, Chief Financial Officer
Ron Kisling joined Nanometrics as CFO in March 2011. Prior to Nanometrics, Mr. Kisling served as Vice President Finance and then CFO of PGP Corporation until its acquisition by Symantec in June, 2010. For the eight years prior, Mr. Kisling held CFO positions at Portal Software and SPL WorldGroup, both acquired by Oracle Corp., as well as Saba Software. Mr. Kisling launched his senior finance career over nine years at Symantec. Mr. Kisling holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University.