Board of Directors
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Year
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Douglas S. Schatz
Chairman |
1981 |
Douglas S. Schatz is a co-founder of Advanced Energy and has been its chairman and a director since its incorporation in 1981. He also served as chief executive officer until August 2005 and as president until July 1999. In March 2001, Mr. Schatz was re-appointed as president. Since December 1995, Mr. Schatz has served as a director of Advanced Power Technology,
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| Richard P. Beck |
1995 |
Richard P. Beck joined Advanced Energy in March 1992 as vice president and chief financial officer and became senior vice president in February 1998. He became a director of Advanced Energy in September 1995. In October 2001, Mr. Beck retired as chief financial officer but remained a senior vice president until June 2002. Mr. Beck is chairman of the board of Applied Films Corporation, a publicly held manufacturer of flat panel display equipment. He is also a director of TTM,
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| Trung T. Doan |
2000 |
Mr. Doan is currently the Chairman and CEO of SemiLEDs Corporation. Mr. Doan held various management and executive positions at companies such as Intel, Honeywell and Micron where he had worked from 1988 to 2003 with the last position as Vice President of Process Development. Earlier, he served as President and CEO of Jusung Engineering,
Mr. Doan graduated from University of California with a Bachelor of Nuclear Engineering with honors. In 1981 after Mr. Doan received a Masters of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, he worked for Intel and received Intel's 1983 Outstanding Technology Development Award. He is an inventor of more than 200 patents with many pending. He was named as one of the most prolific inventors from 1988 to 1998 and was published by the U.S. patent office. Mr. Doan previously served on the Advanced Energy Board of Directors from July 2000 until January 2004.
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| Dr.Hans-Georg Betz |
2004 |
Dr. Hans-Georg Betz joined Advanced Energy’s Board of Directors in July 2004 and was appointed to President and Chief Executive Officer in August 2005. Dr. Betz has over 30 years of experience in the electronics industry. Previously, he was chief executive officer of West STEAG Partners GmbH and STEAG Electronic System AG, as well as a managing director at Leybold AG. Dr. Betz currently serves as a board member for high-technology companies such as Mattson Technology, GuideTech, and Photodigm.
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| Thomas M. Rohrs |
2006 |
Thomas M. Rohrs is currently chairman and chief executive officer of Electroglas,
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| Edward C. Grady |
2008 |
Edward C. Grady joined the Board of Directors of Advanced Energy in May 2008. From February 2003 until his retirement in October 2007, Mr. Grady was the president and chief executive officer of Brooks Automation, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of automation solutions to the global semiconductor and related industries, and continues to serve as a senior executive consultant. Prior to joining Brooks, he was a partner at Propel Partners, a venture firm in Palo Alto, California. Prior to this, he ran several divisions at KLA-Tencor and helped to grow the business to a level in excess of $1 billion in revenues. Before KLA-Tencor, he served as president and CEO of Hoya Micro Mask for three years. He started his career as an engineer for Monsanto/MEMC, and during his 13 years with the company, rose to the position of vice president of worldwide sales for EPI, the most profitable division in MEMC. Mr. Grady currently serves on the Board of Directors of the following publicly held companies: Evergreen Solar, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of solar panels and other solar energy products; Verigy Ltd., a provider of automated test systems for the semiconductor industry; and Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a supplier of production equipment for micro-engineering applications.
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| Frederick A. Ball |
2008 |
Frederick A. Ball currently serves as chief financial officer for Webroot, a software security company. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Electro Scientific Industries, a provider of photonic and laser systems for micro-engineering applications, and serves as a member of their audit committee. Mr. Ball's past positions include senior vice president and chief financial officer of Big Band Networks, a provider of network platforms for broadband multimedia services. He also held various executive positions at Borland Software Corporation, a provider of enterprise software development solutions, including chief financial officer and executive vice president of corporate development and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Mr. Ball worked at KLA-Tencor Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, where he served as vice president, mergers and acquisitions, and vice president of finance. Mr. Ball holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and spent 11 years as a CPA at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Terry Hudgens
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2010 |
Terry Hudgens has been a special advisor to Iberdrola Renewables, Inc., a leading provider of renewable energy, since November 2008. From April 2007 until his retirement in November 2008, Mr. Hudgens served as president and chief executive officer of Iberdrola Renewables’ U.S. and Canadian energy businesses. Mr. Hudgens joined Iberdrola in connection with Iberdrola’s acquisition of PPM Energy, the U.S. subsidiary of Scottish Power plc, an electricity distributor and wind power producer, where he had served as president and chief executive officer since May 2001. Prior to joining PPM Energy, Mr. Hudgens served in various management and operations positions with a number of utilities and energy companies, including PacifiCorp and Texaco Inc.
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