People: Newport Corp (NEWP.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Kenneth Potashner	55	2007	Independent Chairman of the Board
Robert Phillippy	52	2007	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Charles Cargile	49	2013	Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Treasurer
David Allen	58	2012	Senior Vice President, General Manager - Lasers Division
Laurence Parson	64	2013	Senior Vice President, General Manager - Optics Group
Dennis Werth	58	2013	Senior Vice President, General Manager - Photonics Group
Jeffrey Coyne	46	2004	Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary, General Counsel
Christopher Cox	60	2011	Independent Director
Robert Guyett		1990	Independent Director
Oleg Khaykin	48	2010	Independent Director
Michael O'Neill	72	2003	Independent Director
C. Kumar Patel	74	1986	Independent Director
Peter Simone	65	2003	Independent Director
Rob Fink			IR Contact Officer

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Biographies

Name	Description
Kenneth Potashner	Mr. Kenneth F. Potashner serves as Independent Chairman of the Board of Newport Corporation. He was elected to the Board in 1998. He served as the Board’s Lead Independent Director from August 2003 to August 2006. In September 2007, Mr. Potashner was appointed as Chairman of the Board. From May 2003 to present, Mr. Potashner has been an independent investor. Since March 2012, he has also held the position of Executive Chairman at Parametric Sound Corporation, a provider of audio solutions, and has served on that company’s board of directors since December 2011. From 1996 to May 2003, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maxwell Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of ultracapacitors, microelectronics and high voltage capacitors, and he also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxwell Technologies from 1996 to October 1998. From November 1998 to August 2002, Mr. Potashner was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of SONICblue Incorporated (formerly S3 Incorporated), a supplier of digital media appliances and services. Mr. Potashner was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Disk Drive Operations for Conner Peripherals, a manufacturer of storage systems, from 1994 to 1996. From 1991 to 1994, he was Vice President, Worldwide Product Engineering for Quantum Corporation, a manufacturer of disk drives. From 1981 to 1991, he held various engineering management positions with Digital Equipment Corporation, a manufacturer of computers and peripherals, culminating with the position of Vice President of Worldwide Product Engineering in 1991.
Robert Phillippy	Mr. Robert J. Phillippy serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Newport Corporation. He joined Newport in April 1996 as Vice President and General Manager of the Science and Laboratory Products Division. In August 1999, he was appointed to the position of Vice President and General Manager of the U.S. operations of Industrial and Scientific Technologies Division. In July 2004, Mr. Phillippy was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer, and in September 2007, he was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board. Prior to joining Newport, Mr. Phillippy was Vice President of Channel Marketing at Square D Company, an electrical equipment manufacturer, from 1994 to 1996. He joined Square D Company in 1984 as a sales engineer and held various sales and marketing management positions with that company prior to his appointment as Vice President in 1994.
Charles Cargile	Mr. Charles F. Cargile serves as Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Treasurer of Newport Corporation. He joined in October 2000 as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In July 2004, he was appointed Senior Vice President. He has also served as Treasurer since April 2013 and previously from February 2005 until April 2010. Prior to joining, Mr. Cargile was Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development for York International Corporation (now a division of Johnson Controls, Inc.), a manufacturer of air conditioning and refrigeration products. He joined York in November 1998, and served in a number of executive positions, including Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, until his promotion to Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development in February 2000. Prior to joining York, Mr. Cargile was employed by Flowserve Corporation, a global company engaged in the design, manufacture, distribution and service of industrial flow management equipment, in various positions, most recently as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from February 1995 to November 1998.
David Allen	Mr. David J. Allen serves as Senior Vice President, General Manager - Lasers Division of Newport Corporation. He joined in March 2007 as Vice President and General Manager of Lasers Division. In May 2012, he was appointed as Senior Vice President, and he now holds the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Lasers Group. Prior to joining, from October 1999 to July 2006, Mr. Allen was employed by Agilent Technologies, Inc., a global provider of measurement and analytical instrumentation, and Avago Technologies, Inc., a company which was formed in December 2005 by the spin-off of Agilent’s semiconductor products division. During such time, he held a number of management positions, most recently serving as Vice President and General Manager, Fiber Optics Products Division from April 2004 to July 2006, as Vice President and General Manager, Networking Solutions Business Unit from November 2003 to December 2005, and as Vice President and General Manager, Personal Systems Business Unit from November 2001 to October 2003. Prior to his positions with Agilent and Avago, Mr. Allen held various management positions at Hewlett-Packard Company from December 1984 to October 1999. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard Company, Mr. Allen held various sales positions at General Electric Company.
Laurence Parson	Mr. Laurence D. Parson is Senior Vice President, General Manager - Optics Group of Newport Corp. He joined in July 2004 through acquisition of Spectra-Physics, Inc. and related photonics businesses, serving as Vice President of the North American Sales and Service Organization for Lasers Division, which was formed at the time of the acquisition. In September 2005, Mr. Parson was appointed as Vice President of the Integrated Solutions Business of former Photonics and Precision Technologies Division. In January 2013, in connection with the realignment of operating groups, he was appointed as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Optics Group, which includes the Integrated Solutions Business and substantially all of optics businesses. Mr. Parson previously served as Vice President and General Manager of the Passive Components Division of Spectra-Physics from 2000 until 2003, when he was appointed as Vice President of the North American Sales and Service Organization for Spectra-Physics. Prior to joining Spectra-Physics, he was Vice President, Optics, for Coherent Inc., a manufacturer of lasers and precision optics, from 1998 to 1999. Prior to joining Coherent, Mr. Parson was employed by Optical Coating Laboratory Inc., a manufacturer of optical thin film coatings and components that is now a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation, where he held various leadership roles, including Vice President and General Manager, Glare Guard Division from 1991 to 1996, and Vice President, North American and Asian Sales from 1996 to 1998.
Dennis Werth	Mr. Dennis L. Werth is Senior Vice President, General Manager - Photonics Group of Newport Corp. He joined in July 2004, serving as Senior Director and General Manager of the Oriel Instruments business, which acquired as a part of acquisition of Spectra-Physics, until February 2005. From February 2005 to January 2013, Mr. Werth served as Vice President of the Precision Components and Systems Business of former Photonics and Precision Technologies Division. In January 2013, in connection with the realignment of operating groups, he was appointed as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Photonics Group, which includes the Precision Components and Systems Business and the photonics businesses of former Ophir Division. Prior to joining Oriel Instruments in January 2004, Mr. Werth was the Chief Operating Officer of Isowave, a supplier of advanced optical materials and fiber optic components serving the telecommunications and R&D markets, from July 2001 to December 2003. From November 1996 to June 2001, he served as Business Segment Leader, Electronic Components and Electronic Article Surveillance, at Allied Signal, Inc., a diversified manufacturer, which merged with Honeywell, Inc. in 1999. Prior to joining Allied Signal, from May 1985 to June 1996, Mr. Werth held various management positions of increasing responsibility at Amoco Corporation, most recently serving as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of that company’s ATx Telecom Systems, Inc. subsidiary (formerly, Amoco Laser Company, which Mr. Werth co-founded in 1987 and which was sold to Scientific Atlanta in June 1996).
Jeffrey Coyne	Mr. Jeffrey B. Coyne serves as Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary, General Counsel of Newport Corporation. He joined in June 2001 as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. In July 2004, he was appointed Senior Vice President, with responsibility for human resources in addition to legal affairs. Prior to joining, Mr. Coyne was a partner in the Corporate and Securities Law Department of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, outside corporate counsel, from January 2000 to June 2001, and was an associate attorney at such firm from February 1994 to December 1999. From November 1991 to February 1994, Mr. Coyne was an associate attorney at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), an international law firm. Mr. Coyne is a member of the State Bar of California and the Orange County Bar Association.
Christopher Cox	Mr. Christopher Cox is the Independent Director of Newport Corp. Since July 2009, Mr. Cox has been a partner in the Corporate Practice Group of Bingham McCutchen LLP, an international law firm, and since July 2011, he has been President of the firm’s subsidiary, Bingham Consulting LLC, an international legal consulting firm. Prior to joining Bingham, from August 2005 to January 2009, he served as the 28th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). From 1994 to 2005, Mr. Cox served in the elected majority leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was first elected to Congress in 1988, and during his career served as Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security following the September 11th attacks; Chairman of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China; Chairman of the House Policy Committee; Chairman of the Task Force on Capital Markets; Chairman of the Task Force on Budget Process Reform; and Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Study Group on Enhancing Multilateral Export Controls. From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Cox served as a White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Previously, he had been a partner in the international law firm of Latham & Watkins, specializing in corporate and securities matters, and a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he taught federal income tax.
Robert Guyett	Mr. Robert L. Guyett is no longer Independent Director of Newport Corporation effective May 21, 2013. Since April 1996, Mr. Guyett has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Management Enterprises, LLC, a financial management and investment advisory services firm. Since January 2000, he has also served on the Board of Directors of Maxwell Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of ultracapacitors, microelectronics and high voltage capacitors, and he served as Chairman of that Board from May 2010 to May 2011, and from May 2003 until May 2007. From May 1995 to December 1996, he was a consultant to Engelhard Corporation, an international specialty chemical and precious metals company. Between September 1991 and May 1995, Mr. Guyett served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Engelhard Corporation. From January 1987 to September 1991, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Fluor Corporation, an international engineering and construction firm. Mr. Guyett also currently serves as the Treasurer and a director of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
Oleg Khaykin	Mr. Oleg Khaykin is the Independent Director of Newport Corporation. Since March 2008, Mr. Khaykin has served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a director, of International Rectifier Corporation. From January 2006 until February 2008, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Amkor Technology, Inc., a provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, having joined Amkor in May 2003 as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. Prior to joining Amkor, Mr. Khaykin was employed by Conexant Systems Inc. and its spin-off, Mindspeed Technologies Inc., where he held positions of increasing responsibilities from 1999 to 2003, most recently as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development from June 1999 until May 2003. Prior to Conexant, he was with the Boston Consulting Group, a international strategy and general management consulting firm, where he worked with many European and U.S. firms on a broad range of business and management issues.
Michael O'Neill	Mr. Michael T. O'Neill serves as Independent Director of Newport Corporation. From December 2010 to present, Mr. O’Neill has been an independent investor. From November 2000 to December 2010, Mr. O’Neill served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a director, of Miragene, Inc., a biotechnology company. From May 1995 to October 2000, Mr. O’Neill served as an independent consultant to several private companies in the biotechnology industry. From 1973 to 1995, Mr. O’Neill was employed by Beckman Instruments, Inc., a manufacturer of automated analytical systems for the life and health sciences market, in various management positions, most recently as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Operations from 1993 to 1995, and as Group Vice President, Life Sciences Operations from 1989 to 1993. Mr. O’Neill holds a Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors.
C. Kumar Patel	Dr. C. Kumar N. Patel serves as Independent Director of Newport Corporation. Dr. Patel was Vice Chancellor-Research, University of California, Los Angeles from 1993 to 1999, and in January 2000 he was appointed to the position of Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Since February 2000, Dr. Patel has also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pranalytica, Inc., a company involved in infrared quantum cascade lasers and ultra-low level trace gas detection technologies. Previously, he was employed by AT&T Bell Laboratories, a telecommunications research company, as Executive Director of the Research, Materials Science, Engineering and Academic Affairs Division from 1987 to 1993, and as Executive Director, Physics and Academic Affairs Division from 1981 to 1987. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1961. He is the inventor of the carbon dioxide laser and was awarded the National Medal of Science by the President of the United States in 1996. In 2012, Dr. Patel was elected to the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
Peter Simone	Mr. Peter J. Simone serves as Independent Director of Newport Corporation. Mr. Simone currently serves as an independent consultant to several venture capital firms and venture-funded private companies. Mr. Simone was Executive Chairman of SpeedFam-IPEC, Inc., a semiconductor equipment company, from June 2001 to December 2002 when it was acquired by Novellus Systems, Inc. He served as a director of and a consultant to Active Controls eXperts, Inc. (“ACX”), a supplier of precision motion control and smart structures technology, from January 2000 to August 2000, and was President and a director of ACX from August 2000 to February 2001 when it was acquired by Cymer, Inc. He served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Xionics Document Technologies, Inc., a provider of embedded software solutions for printer and copier manufacturers, from April 1997 until Xionics’ merger with Oak Technology, Inc. in January 2000. Mr. Simone’s previous experience includes seventeen years with GCA Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor photolithography capital equipment, holding various management positions including President and director. Mr. Simone also serves on the boards of directors of several other private and public companies.
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Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Kenneth Potashner	--
Robert Phillippy	1,197,570
Charles Cargile	717,783
David Allen	631,314
Laurence Parson	--
Dennis Werth	627,976
Jeffrey Coyne	606,037
Christopher Cox	--
Robert Guyett	--
Oleg Khaykin	--
Michael O'Neill	--
C. Kumar Patel	--
Peter Simone	--
Rob Fink	--

As Of 28 Dec 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Kenneth Potashner	0	0
Robert Phillippy	440,000	1,061,506
Charles Cargile	453,005	1,041,874
David Allen	0	0
Laurence Parson	0	0
Dennis Werth	0	0
Jeffrey Coyne	200,000	194,400
Christopher Cox	0	0
Robert Guyett	0	0
Oleg Khaykin	0	0
Michael O'Neill	0	0
C. Kumar Patel	0	0
Peter Simone	0	0
Rob Fink	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
CARGILE CHARLES F	4,417	$16.92
NELSON MARK JOSEPH	2,164	$16.92
ALLEN DAVID J	3,234	$16.92
COYNE JEFFREY B	3,728	$16.92
PHILLIPPY ROBERT J	8,878	$16.92
WERTH DENNIS L	3,228	$16.92
PARSON LAURENCE D	2,691	$16.92
SIMONE PETER J	4,000	$11.81
CARGILE CHARLES F	2,600	$16.68
O NEILL MICHAEL T	12,000	$11.29
O NEILL MICHAEL T	12,000	$16.50
CARGILE CHARLES F	7,200	$16.64
CARGILE CHARLES F	13,200	$16.62
CARGILE CHARLES F	10,000	$16.01
COYNE JEFFREY B	3,050	$11.27
CARGILE CHARLES F	17,176	$11.27
CARGILE CHARLES F	16,069	$11.27
PHILLIPPY ROBERT J	7,500	$11.27
PHILLIPPY ROBERT J	17,567	$11.27
COYNE JEFFREY B	8,000	$11.27
PHILLIPPY ROBERT J	17,567	$15.00
COYNE JEFFREY B	8,000	$15.01
PATEL C KUMAR N	13,500	$10.94
PATEL C KUMAR N	13,500	$0.00
PATEL C KUMAR N	13,500	$0.00

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