Executive Team
Israel Niv (Nadler), Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Niv is an experienced executive who combines experience in science and technology with marketing and operational experience. Dr. Niv was the founder and CEO of several start-up companies, a founder and General Manager of a company he helped taking public on NASDAQ and a Vice-President in a fortune 200 company. Dr. Niv is experienced in mergers and acquisitions. He sold two companies to large semiconductor equipment companies and integrated them successfully; he also acquired and integrated several small companies into his operations. Dr. Niv served on boards of public and private companies including among others: Opal Technologies and Jordan Valley Semiconductors, He serves on the board of Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (an academic institution affiliated with Stanford), and is advisor to several start-ups and to SilicomVentures, an investment group.
In Late 1998 Dr. Niv co-founded and became the Chairman, and later CEO, of Optonics, Inc., which at the time was a leading supplier of design debug and failure analysis systems for high bandwidth timing analysis of transistor-to-transistor switching events. Dr. Niv sold Optonics to Credence Systems in late 2002 and served as a president and general manager of the Diagnostics and Characterization business Group (DCG): a division whose revenue rapidly grew from $2M in 2001 to $18.5M in 2004 and ultimately $52M in 2005. During his tenure at Credence, he was responsible for building DCG through internal development of new products, and successfully integrated the NPTest Probe Systems group after its acquisition by Credence Systems Corporation in June 2004.
In May of 1999, Dr. Niv co-founded BeyondWork - an on-line provider of employees benefits, mainly “Rewards and Recognition” system and Discount shopping. BeyondWork raised $15M during the Internet high days and served over 4000 companies. Dr. Niv served as the CEO and Chairman of the company until August 2001. Dr. Niv co-founded Opal Inc., a semiconductor equipment company, in December 1986. Opal was an innovator and a world leader in Automated CD-SEM metrology and in SEM Defect Review systems. He served as the Vice-President of Research and Development, later as the General Manager & Executive Vice-President of Sales and Marketing. He served on Opal's Board of Directors since 1994 and was part of a 3-man team that took Opal public in May 1995. Dr. Niv led the growth of Opal sales from $2.1M in 1991 to $65M in 1996. He became a Vice-President at Applied Materials, the world's largest semiconductor equipment manufacturer, when it acquired Opal Inc. in late 1996. At Applied Materials, Dr. Niv was responsible for the sales, marketing and business development of the Process Diagnostics and Control (PDC) Business group until the end of 1998 (over $150M in annual sales). Prior to Opal, Dr. Niv was a senior physicist at Optrotech (currently Orbotech), the world leader in PCB and FPD inspection.
Dr. Niv received his B.Sc. in Chemistry, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 1982 Dr. Niv was awarded the Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow. From 1982 to 1985 he worked as a Postdoctorate at the University of Southern California (USC) and published over 10 scientific papers. In 2003 Dr. Niv was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus award by USC for his work during his postdoctoral period. In 1992, Dr. Niv completed the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute for Management of High-Technology Companies.
Tameyasu Anayama
Vice President, Field Operations
Mr. Anayama has a broad range of experience in management of semiconductor equipment operations. From 1974 to 1996, he has held various positions including field engineering, sales and marketing, personnel manager and general manager for Schlumberger Oilfield Services, working in 14 different countries. Mr Anayama served as President of Schlumberger K.K. in Japan from 1997 to 2001, From 2002 to 2004, Marketing Manager then General Manager of the Probe Systems Division of NPtest (formerly Schlumberger's ATE division). From 2004 to 2007, he has held various management positions including Product Development, Marketing and General Manager of Diagnostics and Characterization Group at Credence. Mr. Anayama received his BS ME from Waseda University in Japan.
Daniel Cotton, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research
Dr. Cotton served as Director of Engineering at Optonics, Inc. from 2000 to 2003. After the acquisition of Optonics by Credence Systems Corporation, he assisted with the integration of the NPTest Probe Systems group and served as Vice President of the Design Analysis Group, which included marketing, engineering and applications responsibility for the development of IC probing products. As Senior Director of Engineering in Credence's DCG group, he successfully combined three product line engineering teams into a single division-wide engineering group.
Dr. Cotton received his B.S. degree from the University of California at Davis and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, all in Physics, in 1986, 1990, and 1991, respectively. He continued on at Berkeley for a year as an Assistant Research Physicist and subsequently moved to Boston University, first as a Senior Research Assistant and then as an Assistant Research Professor until April, 2000. This academic career was in the field of experimental EUV and FUV aeronomy and included several sounding rocket programs and lead in a small satellite project, TERRIERS. He has 38 publications in this field.
Dave Fucci
Vice President, Operations
Mr. Fucci brings more than two decades of semiconductor and test industry experience to the role of directing DCG Systems manufacturing operations. In this position, Mr. Fucci is responsible for all Operations activities, including facilities and IT operations. He is chartered with management of the company’s materials and build plan, quality programs, and outsourcing strategy. Mr. Fucci served as Director of Manufacturing at Optonics, Inc. from 2000 to 2003. Prior to joining DCG Systems Mr. Fucci served in various positions at Credence Systems including Sr. Director of the Electrical Failure Analysis Product Group, Sr. Director of Circuit Analysis Product Management and over six years as Director of Operations. At Credence he led the implementation, production ramp and qualification of three product lines. Mr. Fucci received a BSEE from Northeastern University and an MBA from Boston University.
Ted Lundquist
Director, Technology
Dr. Lundquist has more than 30 years of experience in ion, electron and photon optics and instrumentation, including 6 years at NASA developing beam techniques to calibrate spectrometers, and 15 years with Gatan developing beam systems systems. In 1994 Dr. Lundquist moved to the Schlumberger Diagnostic Systems Group to join what eventually became DCG Systems, Inc. He is currently Technology Director, and works closely with engineering to develop and deliver reliable, quality products as well as consult with customers to understand their future needs in order to guide DCG's ongoing development of leading edge technologies. Dr. Lundquist's charter is to provide productive solutions for IC diagnostics, focusing on enabling and improving the efficiency of physical diagnostics of ICs, especially first Silicon debug and yield.
Dr. Lundquist has the following degrees in physics: BS from MIT, X-ray scattering and detection with proportional counters; MS from U of MA, laser scattering from vacancies in solids; PhD from U of MD under Robert L Park, ionization and neutralization of sputtered atoms. He is a member of ASM-EDFA.
Randy Schussler
General Manager, nanoInstruments
Mr. Schussler has over 20 years of leading the growth of high technology companies. An accomplished executive with a passion for operational excellence, his vision and experience has driven profitable, sustained growth in a variety of enterprises, large and small, around the world. With a broad set of experiences to draw on, Mr. Schussler has used his skills to develop and grow businesses worldwide.
Prior to joining DCG Systems, Mr. Schussler's experience includes managing the Zyvex Instruments division, a leading supplier of nanoinstruments for use in semiconductor analysis. Mr. Schussler was also responsible for the growth of Flextronics’ business with two of its largest customers. He was also the original operations executive at Xtera Communications, a well-funded telecom startup at the peak of the dot com boom, growing it to a produced run rate of $80M per quarter. He drove the manufacturing operations in the United States, Mexico and China while with STB/ 3dfx. During his tenure, the company grew from <$100M to greater than $300M in less than three years.
Mr. Schussler also had significant impact growing revenue and profitability in a variety of business units at Reliance Com/ Tec, DSC and Texas Instruments. His roles in Product Management, Project Management, Supply Chain Management and Engineering are the foundation for his successes.
Jeff Block
General Manager, Circuit Analysis
Mr. Block brings nearly 14 years of industry experience in semiconductor diagnostics, IC design validation, characterization, and electrical failure analysis. Mr. Block has worked to develop and market non-contact probing products and applications based primarily on the following technologies: Laser Voltage Probing (LVP), Time-resolved Photon Emission (TRPE), dynamic Photon Emission (d-PEM), and dynamic Laser Scanning Microscopy (d-LSM).
Before joining DCG Systems, Mr. Block worked as a Product Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Technical Specialist at Schlumberger Semiconductor Solutions, debugging microprocessors and chipsets while finding ways to use optical diagnostic techniques more effectively. His previous work was studying the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic, carbon encapsulated nanoparticles. Mr. Block earned undergraduate degrees in physics and astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. His graduate study and research was in solid state physics, with an emphasis on semiconductors, at San Jose State University.
Charles Riddle
General Manager, Circuit Edit
Mr. Riddle has more than 20 years of management experience with analytical instrumentation and applications in the semiconductor industry. He joined FEI Company in 1985 as VP of Marketing and the following year became COO and joined the Board of Directors. During the following ten years he worked to take FEI from a small R&D components company to a worldwide supplier of focused ion beam systems to the semiconductor industry. In 1995/96 he assisted in taking FEI public and was one of a team of three that executed a subsequent merger with Philips Electron Optics. From 1998 thru 2007 Mr. Riddle consulted on marketing and strategy issues relating to the semiconductor industry, including the Diagnostics and Characterization Group (DCG) of Credence. He joined the newly independent DCG Systems in 2008 as VP Marketing and later as General Manager of the Circuit Edit group.
Mr. Riddle has a BS in Chemistry from the University of California at Davis in 1970 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1978. Prior to joining FEI Company he spent four years as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group working on marketing and corporate strategy problems and two years as VP Marketing with a small software company.
Bob Connors
Vice President, Finance and Administration
Mr. Connors has over 15 years of experience as CFO of hardware and software companies in Silicon Valley. Most recently he has served as a financial consultant for area firms such as Hewlett Packard and Macrovision. Through 2007 he was CFO at Energy Focus, a high tech lighting company, where he served for nine years. Prior to 1998, he held the role of US CFO and Controller along with other financial roles with Micro Focus Group Plc, a software firm. Mr. Connors has led two firms through the SEC process to go public on NASDAQ and completed 13 acquisitions. He has a BA. from Occidental College in Physics and Math and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Washington University in St. Louis
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