Richard S. Hill has been Novellus' chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors since 1993. He was appointed chairman of the board in May 1996.
Before joining Novellus, Mr. Hill spent 12 years at Tektronix, Inc., where he held a variety of positions, including president of Tektronix Development Company, vice president of the Test and Measurement Group and president of Tektronix Components Corporation. Prior to joining Tektronix, he held engineering management positions
at General Electric, Motorola and Hughes Aircraft Company.
Mr. Hill holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and a master's degree in business administration from Syracuse University. He is a board member of the University of Illinois Foundation and serves on the boards of LSI and Arrow Electronics.
Jeffrey C. Benzing
Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Principal Financial Officer
Jeffrey C. Benzing is executive vice president, chief administrative officer, and principal financial officer for Novellus. He is responsible for overseeing and executing on all company business objectives, Finance, and ITD organizations.
Since joining Novellus in 1988, Mr. Benzing has held a number of positions, including executive vice president and chief business officer, executive vice president of the Deposition and Surface Integrity Product Groups, executive vice president of systems development, engineering and operations, and vice president of product development.
Prior to his career at Novellus, Mr. Benzing served as co-founder and vice president of engineering at Benzing Technologies. From 1979 to 1984, he held various positions at Hewlett-Packard.
Mr. Benzing holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
Fusen Chen Ph. D.
Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Systems Products
Dr. Fusen Chen is executive vice president, with responsibility for all product business units at Novellus. Dr. Chen also oversees technology strategy and direction for the company.
Dr. Chen joined Novellus in 2004 as senior vice president of Asia Pacific operations. Prior to joining Novellus, Dr. Chen spent 10 years at Applied Materials, most recently
as the group vice president and general manager for the company's Copper Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) & Interconnect Product Business Group. Prior to joining Applied Materials, he worked at LSI Logic and SGS-Thomson Microelectronics.
Dr. Chen holds a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering from the National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and a doctorate degree in materials science and engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Gino Addiego Ph.D.
Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations
Dr. Gino Addiego joined Novellus in February 2005. As the company's executive vice president of corporate operations, he oversees all of Novellus' manufacturing, supply chain, systems engineering, facilities, and corporate quality organizations.
Prior to joining Novellus, Dr. Addiego spent more than eight years at Applied Materials, where he was responsible for global operations (including manufacturing and supply chain), central engineering, information technology, facilities and all of the product groups. Before that, he worked at KLA-Tencor and Photon Dynamics.
Dr. Addiego received both his bachelor's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds seven patents and was nominated for the National Inventor of the Year Award in 1993.
Timothy M. Archer
Executive Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Customer Satisfaction
Timothy M. Archer is the executive vice president for sales, marketing and customer satisfaction.
Since joining Novellus in 1994 , Mr. Archer has held a number of positions including executive vice president of the PECVD and Electrofill business units, senior vice president of the Dielectrics Group, vice president and general manager for the Electrofill Business Unit, senior director of technology for the Electrofill Business Unit, and senior director of technology for Novellus Systems Japan.
Before joining Novellus, Mr. Archer was employed at Tektronix, Inc.
Mr. Archer completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology.
Martin J. Collins
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Martin J. Collins is senior vice president and general counsel for Novellus.
He joined the company in November 2006.
Prior to joining Novellus, Mr. Collins was vice president, associate general counsel and assistant secretary of Oracle Corporation. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Collins was a corporate partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, where he worked from 1991 until 2005.
Mr. Collins received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy from Williams College and his Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center.
John Hertz
Vice President, Corporate Finance
Mr. Hertz is currently Vice President, Corporate Finance, and is also the Company's Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Hertz joined Novellus in June 2007. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hertz worked for Intel Corporation, where he held a number of positions, including Central Finance Controller of the Digital Enterprise Group from October 2006 through June 2007, Finance Controller of the Enterprise Platform Services Division from April 2005 through October 2006, and Accounting Policy Controller from June 2000 through April 2005. Mr. Hertz received his Bachelor of Science in Business with an accounting emphasis from Montana State University, and was a Practice Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board from July 1998 to June 2000.
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