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 3 small companies into his operations. Dr. Niv is currently the Chairman of the Board of Jordan valley Semiconductors (a Semiconductor Metrology equipment company), 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 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, Engineering

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.

Roy Dorling
Vice President, Finance

Mr. Dorling has over 20 years financial management experience with over nine years in the Silicon Valley. Most recently he was a Finance Director for Credence Systems Corp., responsible for the financial management of Credence's business units, including the DCG division. Prior to Credence, Mr. Dorling was a Business Unit controller with Agilent Technologies (1999-2005), Avago Technologies (2005-2006) and PMC Sierra (2006). Mr. Dorling has a BA Economics from the University of Washington and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.