Michel Villemain, Ph.D.

Michel Villemain has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor test and failure analysis equipment business.

Most recently, Michel was Vice President Marketing for the Circuit Edit and Mask Repair Division at FEI. Prior to that, he was General Manager of the CD-SEM Business Unit at KLA-Tencor. Michel started his career with Schlumberger (later NPTest), where he served in various technical and managerial capacities over 19 years, in Europe, Texas and California. He has served as General Manager for Schlumberger ATE Europe, Vice President Marketing of the Test Division, and for five years General Manager of the Probe Systems (IDS) Division.

Michel graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in France, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Orsay University.

Frank Sauk

Frank Sauk has over 25 years experience in the semiconductor test and failure analysis industry.

Most recently, he was Director of Diagnostic Services and Member of Technical Staff at Credence. Frank was a founding member of SABER at Schlumberger where he initiated worldwide failure analysis services. In this groundbreaking division, he was key in establishing alliances and delivering results to foundries, design service providers and design houses.

Previously, Frank has contributed in technical and management roles in Massachusetts, Texas and California.

Frank has published a number of papers on electrical failure analysis and has been awarded two patents. He graduated from MIT with a MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Jack Sexton

Jack Sexton has over 25 years of financial leadership experience in technology, including 10 years with Silicon Valley based technology companies and 15 years with the leading oilfield services provider Schlumberger.

Most recently Mr. Sexton was CFO of SVTC Technologies; prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer of Ultra Clean Technology where he was instrumental in driving dramatic top and bottom line growth, both organically and through acquisition. Prior to that Mr. Sexton was Chief Accounting Officer of NPTest where he managed the financial aspects of the company's spin off from Schlumberger, through a successful IPO and subsequent merger with Credence Systems, where he later served as Corporate Controller.

Jack is a certified public accountant, holds two Bachelor of Science degrees, in finance and accounting, from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Egil Castel

Egil Castel has over 20 years experience in semiconductor fab management and silicon process equipment development and manufacturing.

Most recently he was managing development and market introduction of Ebeam-based tools at KLA-Tencor. In this position, he secured long-term cooperative relationships with top 20 semiconductor companies with resulted in timely introduction of state-of-the-art equipment to the marketplace.

Egil has authored more than 40 papers and has been awarded several US patents. He graduated from the University of Paris, France, with the M.S. degree in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Physics.

Moshe Zalcberg

Moshe has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and design automation industries, having spent the past 12 years of his career at Cadence Design Systems – most recently as General Manager of Israeli operations. Prior to that position, Moshe was European Director for Professional Services at Cadence.

Moshe has performed various management, sales, business development and technical roles, having started his career as an ASIC designer. He is an electrical engineering graduate of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and holds an MSc in Electronics and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Philippe Laban

Philippe has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, mainly in operations.

Most recently, he was Director of Test & Product Engineering Director at ST-Ericsson. Prior to that position, he served at STMicroelectronics as Manager of Quality & Reliability for industrial & cellular applications and other quality- and engineering-related capacities.

Philippe graduated from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA, Toulouse) with a MS in Physics and an advanced degree (“DEA”) in Solid-state Physics; he is the author of one patent.

Cédric Mayor

Cédric Mayor has more than 9 years of experience in the semiconductor product design and industrialization.

Most recently in the Netherlands and in France, he was in charge of new product bring up and debug activitiy for NXP Semiconductors, especially on advanced process nodes in Asian foundries. Cedric also held product transfer and ramp-up positons supporting the NXP Corporate Operation sourcing. Prior to that, he was R&D memory design architect in charge of innovative SRAM/ROM compilers in a start up which became the SOI hard IP department of ARM Ltd.

Cédric graduated from Ecole Centrale Marseille in France, and holds a MS of Physics and Electrical Engineering and four patents in the area of chip design.

Jean-Pascal Mallet

Jean-Pascal Mallet has more than 19 years of experience in the Automatic Test Equipment industry.

Most recently, he was engineering manager at Credence. Previously he held senior engineering positions at Schlumberger; Jean-Pascal was instrumental in various developments for ITS 9000, Deft and Sapphire high-end test systems platforms, serving computing, wireless, consumer, and linear semiconductors markets.

Jean-Pascal has published a technical paper at ITC and he is the author of three patents. He graduated from INT (Institut National des Telecommunications) with a MS in Electronic Engineering.