People: Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc (KLIC.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
MacDonnell Roehm	73	2010	Independent Chairman of the Board
Bruno Guilmart	52	2010	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Jonathan Chou	49	2010	Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer
Lester Wong	46	2011	Senior Vice President - Legal Affairs, General Counsel
Alan Schindler	53	2011	Senior Vice President - Global Operations
Tek Chee Mak	58	2006	Vice President - Global Sales
Deepak Sood	51	2013	Vice President - Global Engineering
Matthew Vorona	53	2012	Vice President - Wedge Bonder Business Unit
Nelson Wong	52	2011	Vice President - Ball and Die Bonder Business Unit Management
Brian Bachman	67	2003	Independent Director
Chin Hu Lim	54	2011	Independent Director
John O'Steen	68	1998	Independent Director
Garrett Pierce	68	2005	Independent Director
Barry Waite	65	2003	Independent Director
Mui Sung Yeo	54	2012	Independent Director
Joseph Elgindy			Director of Investor Relations & Strategic Planning

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Biographies

Name	Description
MacDonnell Roehm	Mr. MacDonnell Roehm, Jr. is Independent Chairman of the Board of Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc., since May 2010. Mr. Roehm retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crooked Creek Capital LLC, a provider of strategic, operational and financial restructuring services, in June 2012, a position he had held since 1998. In addition, Mr. Roehm is a director of Next Capital International, an Australian private equity fund, a position he has held since 2009. From September 2002 to April 2003, Mr. Roehm also served as Chief Executive Officer of CH4 Gas Limited, a natural resources company. From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Roehm served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mackenzie-Childs Ltd., a manufacturer and retailer of furniture and home accessories. From 1999 to 2007, Mr. Roehm also served as Chairman of Australian Ventures LLC, a private equity fund. From 1994 until 1998, Mr. Roehm served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bill’s Dollar Stores, Inc., a chain of retail convenience stores. Before that time, he served as Managing Director of AEA Investors, Inc., a private investment firm. In determining that Mr. Roehm was qualified to serve as a director of the Company, the board of directors considered his experience of serving as chief executive officer of companies in a variety of industries and the skills, knowledge and perspective gained from executive and director roles at private equity and investment firms.
Bruno Guilmart	Mr. Bruno Guilmart is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. From June 2008 until he joined the Company, Mr. Guilmart served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a developer of programmable logic devices and related software. From August 2007 until June 2008, Mr. Guilmart served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Unisem (M) Berhad Group, a provider of semiconductor assembly and test services. From September 2003 to August 2007, Mr. Guilmart served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Advanced Interconnect Technologies, Inc., a TPG-Newbridge Company, a provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, which was acquired by Unisem (M) Berhad Group in August 2007. Before joining Advanced Interconnect Technologies, Inc., Mr. Guilmart was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd. Mr. Guilmart also has held senior management and business development positions at Cadence Design Systems, Temic Semiconductors and Hewlett-Packard Company. Mr. Guilmart also served as a director of Chartered Silicon Partners, a subsidiary of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd., a wafer foundry, from 2001 to 2003. In determining that Mr. Guilmart was qualified to serve as a director of the Company, the board of directors considered his achievement as an executive officer of several corporations operating in the semiconductor industry and the breadth of knowledge of the industry gained by those experiences. The board of directors also considered Mr. Guilmart’s participation in the 2009 Stanford Annual Director’s College. Mr. Guilmart also provides the perspective of a chief executive officer of three semiconductor industry companies, including the Company.
Jonathan Chou	Mr. Jonathan H. Chou is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Principal Accounting of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. From April 2008 until he joined the Company, Mr. Chou served as Chief Financial Officer of Feihe International, Inc. (f/k/a American Dairy, Inc.), a producer and distributor of premium infant formula, milk powder, soybean, rice cereal and walnut products in China. From February 2006 to June 2007, Mr. Chou served as the Asia Pacific Corporate Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions for Honeywell International, a diversified technology company. From September 2003 to January 2006, Mr. Chou served as the Asia Regional Chief Financial Officer of Tyco Fire & Security (ADT), a division of Tyco International. From May 2000 to September 2003, Mr. Chou held several senior finance positions at Lucent Technologies including Asia Pacific Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Chou has also served as a director of Microport Scientific Corporation, a medical product company, since September 2010. Mr. Chou received a Bachelor’s Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master of Business Administration degree from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Lester Wong	Mr. Lester A. Wong is Senior Vice President - Legal Affairs, General Counsel of Kulicke And Soffa Industries Inc., since September 12, 2011. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Wong was General Counsel at GigaMedia Limited, a provider of online entertainment software, from May 2008 to August 2011. He previously served as Senior Legal Counsel at CDC Corporation, a software and media company, from June 2003 to November 2007, and as an executive with Cowen Latitude Asia, the wholly-owned Asia subsidiary of Cowen Group, a diversified financial services company, from April 2001 to June 2003. Mr. Wong obtained a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Law Degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1993, Law Society of British Columbia in 1993 and Law Society of Hong Kong in 1997.
Alan Schindler	Mr. Alan B. Schindler is Senior Vice President - Global Operations of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc., since April 1, 2011. He previously served as Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain and Operations from 2009 to 2011 and Vice President, Global Supply Chain from 2002 to 2009. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Schindler spent eight years working in multiple manufacturing locations for Unis Corporation. Mr. Schindler earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics from Villanova University and his Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed the Stanford Executive Institute’s program on managing technology companies.
Tek Chee Mak	Mr. Tek Chee Mak is Vice President - Global Sales of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc., since September 2006. He previously served as Vice President of Sales for the Equipment and Expendable Tools businesses from November 2004 to September 2006 and as Vice President of Asia Sales from February 2001 to November 2004. Mr. Mak was educated in Hong Kong and holds a Higher Diploma in Electronic Engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Deepak Sood	Mr. Deepak Sood is Vice President - Global Engineering of Kulicke And Soffa Industries Inc. He previously served as Global Director, Software and Vision Systems from 2006 to 2012 and in various other managerial positions of increasing scope, from 1995 to 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sood spent one year as a Research Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Mr. Sood received a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University and a Ph.D. in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Matthew Vorona	Mr. Matthew Vorona is Vice President - Wedge Bonder Business Unit of Kulicke And Soffa Industries Inc. Mr. Vorona joined the Company upon the acquisition of Orthodyne Electronics in October 2008 and was appointed Vice President, Wedge Bonder Business Unit in October 2012. Mr. Vorona previously served as Director of Sales & Marketing from October 2009 to October 2010 and as Global Sales Director from September 2008 to October 2009. Before that, Mr. Vorona had served as Director of International Sales for Orthodyne Electronics since 2001. Mr. Vorona earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia and his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.
Nelson Wong	Mr. Nelson Wong is Vice President - Ball and Die Bonder Business Unit Management of Kulicke And Soffa Industries Inc. Mr. Wong has served as Vice President, Ball and Die Bonder Business Unit Management since 2006 and is responsible for the Ball Bonder, Die Bonder, Tools, Blades and Support Services Business Units. He previously served as Director of Marketing — Ball Bonder from 2000 to 2006 and Application Manager from 1997 to 2006. Mr. Wong holds a Masters of Business Administration and a degree in Physics from the National University of Singapore.
Brian Bachman	Mr. Brian R. Bachman is Independent Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. Mr. Bachman is a private investor and has served as the Managing Partner of River Farm LLC, which provides advisory services and is an agricultural business, since 2004. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Bachman served as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Axcelis Technologies, Inc., which produces equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductors. Mr. Bachman also serves as a director of Trident Microsystems Inc. He formerly served as a director of Ultra Clean Technologies from 2004 to 2009 and Keithley Instruments, Inc. from 1996 to 2010. In determining that Mr. Bachman was qualified to serve as a director of the Company, the board of directors considered Mr. Bachman’s executive leadership experience at semiconductor, semiconductor equipment and other high technology businesses, culminating with his role as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Axcelis Technologies. The board of directors also considered Mr. Bachman’s 17 years of service as a director at publicly-listed small and mid-cap technology companies. Finally, the board of directors considered his continuing education in corporate governance with the Harvard Improving Corporate Governance Program in 2008 and Compensation Committee Program in 2010.
Chin Hu Lim	Mr. Chin Hu Lim is Independent Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. Mr. Lim has served as the Managing Partner of Stream Global Venture Catalyst Pte Ltd., a venture fund providing seed funding for startups in the social and interactive digital media space, since 2010. Mr. Lim was Chief Executive Officer of BT Frontline Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of British Telecommunications Plc that provides information technology services, from 2008 until his retirement in 2010. Thereafter, Mr. Lim served as advisor and board member of BT Frontline Pte Ltd. from 2010 to 2011. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Frontline Technologies Corporation Limited, a Singapore exchange listed company that provided IT services throughout Asia, from 2000 until 2008. Before that time, Mr. Lim was Managing Director of Sun Microsystems Singapore and held various management positions with Hewlett-Packard South East Asia. Mr. Lim also serves as a director of Changi General Hospital Pte. Ltd., G-Able (Thailand) Ltd, an IT services company in Thailand, Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and Caledonian Investments Pte Ltd, a New Zealand investment company focused on technology investments in Asia. He previously served as a director of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and as a council member of the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation, IT Standards Committee and National Infocomm Manpower Council of Singapore. Mr. Lim has served as the Managing Partner of Stream Global Venture Catalyst Pte Ltd., a venture fund providing seed funding for startups in the social and interactive digital media space, since 2010. Mr. Lim was Chief Executive Officer of BT Frontline Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of British Telecommunications Plc that provides information technology services, from 2008 until his retirement in 2010.
John O'Steen	Mr. John A. O'Steen is Independent Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. Mr. O’Steen served as Executive Vice President, Business Development of Cornerstone Brands, Inc., a consumer catalog company, from March 2003 until his retirement in May 2004. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. O’Steen served as Executive Vice President of Cornerstone Brands, Inc. From 1991 to 1998, Mr. O’Steen served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cinmar, L.P., a mail order catalog company that was acquired by the predecessor of Cornerstone Brands, Inc. in September 1995. Before that time, Mr. O’Steen served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Cincinnati Microwave, Inc., a manufacturer of electronic products. Mr. O’Steen also serves as a director of Riggs Heinrich Media, Inc. In determining that Mr. O’Steen was qualified to serve as a director of the Company, the board of directors considered his experience as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cincinnati Microwave, Inc. and as Chairman and Chief Executive of Cinmar, L.P., as well in senior leadership roles at other companies.
Garrett Pierce	Mr. Garrett E. Pierce is Independent Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. Mr. Pierce has served as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Orbital Sciences Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of small rockets and space systems, since April 2002 and as a member of its board of directors since August 2000. Between August 2000 and April 2002, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Orbital Sciences Corporation. From 1996 until August 2000, Mr. Pierce was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sensormatic Electronics Corp., a producer of electronic surveillance systems, and in July 1998 was also named its Chief Administrative Officer. Before that, Mr. Pierce was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of California Microwave, Inc. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Materials Research Corporation which was acquired by Sony Corporation in 1989. From 1972 to 1980, Mr. Pierce held various management positions with The Signal Companies. In determining that Mr. Pierce should serve as a director of the Company, the board of directors considered his approximately 28 years experience as a chief financial officer of publicly-traded, technology-based businesses. Mr. Pierce also has approximately 14 years experience in the semiconductor equipment industry, as both a chief financial officer and a chief executive officer. The board of directors also considered that Mr. Pierce is currently the chief financial officer of a publicly-traded technology company and is a certified public accountant and a chartered global management accountant. Finally, the board of directors considered his continuing education in audit and financial risk management with the Harvard Business School’s Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance program in 2011.
Barry Waite	Mr. Barry Waite is Independent Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. Mr. Waite served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd, a wafer foundry, from May 1998 until his retirement in May 2002. From 1982 to 1998, Mr. Waite held positions of increasing responsibility with Motorola Corporation, Semiconductor Products Sector, including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa from 1997 to 1998 and Senior Vice President and General Manager Microprocessor and Memory Technology Group from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Waite also serves as a director of Innovative Micro Technology and GlobalFoundries and as a senior advisor to Investor Growth Capital, an investment fund, and to Advanced Technology Investment Company, which is wholly-owned by the Abu Dhabi government for the purpose of investing in the advanced technology sector. Mr. Waite also previously served as a director of ZETEX PLC, a manufacturer of analog semiconductor products, from June 2003 to June 2008. In determining that Mr. Waite was qualified to serve as a director of the Company, the board of directors considered Mr. Waite’s record of achievement in over 40 years of experience in the semiconductor industry at all levels of management, culminating with his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd.
Mui Sung Yeo	Ms. Mui Sung Yeo is Independent Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc., since October 01, 2012. Ms. Yeo has served as Chief Financial Officer of MediaCorp Pte Ltd., one of Singapore’s media companies with platforms spanning television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies and digital and out-of-home media, since September 2007. Ms. Yeo previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Group Vice President at United Test & Assembly Center Ltd. from October 1999 to September 2007. Earlier in her career she held positions at F&N Coca Cola, Baxter Healthcare, Archive and Texas Instruments. Ms. Yeo graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in Accounting, from the University of San Francisco. In determining that Ms. Yeo was qualified to serve as a director of the Company, the board of directors considered her approximately 13 years of experience as a chief financial officer of, publicly-traded, technology and media businesses. Ms. Yeo also has approximately 18 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
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Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
MacDonnell Roehm	--
Bruno Guilmart	5,318,280
Jonathan Chou	1,961,420
Lester Wong	--
Alan Schindler	823,540
Tek Chee Mak	1,254,590
Deepak Sood	--
Matthew Vorona	--
Nelson Wong	--
Brian Bachman	--
Chin Hu Lim	--
John O'Steen	--
Garrett Pierce	--
Barry Waite	--
Mui Sung Yeo	--
Joseph Elgindy	--

As Of 28 Sep 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
MacDonnell Roehm	0	0
Bruno Guilmart	0	0
Jonathan Chou	0	0
Lester Wong	0	0
Alan Schindler	1,099	286
Tek Chee Mak	6,500	12,480
Deepak Sood	0	0
Matthew Vorona	0	0
Nelson Wong	0	0
Brian Bachman	0	0
Chin Hu Lim	0	0
John O'Steen	0	0
Garrett Pierce	0	0
Barry Waite	0	0
Mui Sung Yeo	0	0
Joseph Elgindy	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
PIERCE GARRETT E	1,063	$10.71
WAITE BARRY	1,000	$10.50
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	200	$10.90
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	449	$10.89
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	300	$10.94
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	500	$10.94
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	200	$10.91
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	300	$10.94
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	400	$10.90
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	300	$10.92
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	200	$10.93
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	200	$10.91
SCHINDLER ALAN BRUCE	1,655	$10.89
BACHMAN BRIAN R	2,657	$0.00
BACHMAN BRIAN R	870	$11.55
YEO MUI SUNG	2,657	$0.00
O STEEN JOHN A	5,000	$11.63
ROEHM MACDONELL JR	2,657	$0.00
LIM CHIN HU	2,657	$0.00
WAITE BARRY	2,657	$0.00
PIERCE GARRETT E	2,657	$0.00
O STEEN JOHN A	2,657	$0.00
MAK TEK CHEE	21,200	$11.40
MAK TEK CHEE	5,895	$11.19
CHOU JONATHAN H	900	$11.53

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