People: Veeco Instruments Inc (VECO.O)
VECO.O on Nasdaq
39.47USD
24 May 2013
39.47USD
24 May 2013
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Volume
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
John Peeler |
57 | 2012 | Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer |
David Glass |
52 | 2010 | Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President |
William Miller |
43 | 2011 | Executive Vice President - Process Equipment |
Robert Oates |
58 | 2009 | Executive Vice President - Data Storage |
John Kiernan |
49 | 2011 | Senior Vice President - Finance, Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer, Corporate Controller |
Peter Collingwood |
51 | 2009 | Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales and Service |
Roger McDaniel |
74 | 2010 | Lead Independent Director |
Edward Braun |
73 | 2012 | Director |
Richard D'Amore |
1990 | Independent Director | |
Gordon Hunter |
61 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Keith Jackson |
57 | 2012 | Independent Director |
Peter Simone |
65 | 2004 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
John Peeler |
Mr. John R. Peeler serves as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Veeco Instruments Inc. He has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of the Company, effective May 07, 2012. Prior thereto, he was Executive Vice President of JDS Uniphase Corp. (“JDSU”) and President of the Communications Test & Measurement Group of JDSU, which he joined upon the closing of JDSU’s merger with Acterna, Inc. (“Acterna”) in August 2005. Before joining JDSU, Mr. Peeler served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Acterna. Mr. Peeler joined a predecessor of Acterna in 1980 and served in a series of increasingly senior leadership roles including Vice President of Product Development, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and President and CEO of TTC, the Communications Test equipment company. Mr. Peeler was appointed as President and CEO of Acterna in 2003. |
David Glass |
Mr. David D. Glass is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Veeco Instruments Inc., since January 2010. Prior to joining Veeco, Mr. Glass served in various senior executive positions with Rohm and Haas Company, a $10 billion global specialty materials company that was acquired in 2009 by The Dow Chemical Company. These positions included serving from 2007 to January 2009 as Chief Financial Officer of Rohm and Haas’ $2 billion Electronic Materials division and Chief Financial Officer of the Rohm and Haas Asia-Pacific region, serving from 2003-2007 as Rohm and Haas’ Corporate Controller. Prior thereto, Mr. Glass was President of Toso-Haas, a stand-alone joint venture between Rohm and Haas and Tosoh of Japan. |
William Miller |
Dr. William J. Miller, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President - Process Equipment of Veeco Instruments Inc. He was Executive Vice President, Compound Semiconductor from July 2010 until December 2011. Prior thereto, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Veeco’s MOCVD business since January 2009. Dr. Miller was Vice President, General Manager of Veeco’s Data Storage equipment business since January 2006. He held leadership positions of increasing responsibility in both the engineering and operations organizations since he joined Veeco in November 2002. Prior to joining Veeco, he held a range of engineering and operations leadership positions at Advanced Energy Industries. |
Robert Oates |
Mr. Robert P. Oates is Executive Vice President - Data Storage of Veeco Instruments Inc., since January 2009. He was Executive Vice President, Process Equipment from January 2007 to January 2009 and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Process Equipment from January 2006 to January 2007. Prior thereto, he was Senior Vice President of Veeco’s Data Storage Operations from October 2005 through January 2006, Vice President and General Manager of Veeco’s Ion Beam Process Equipment Group from September 2004 through September 2005, Vice President/Treasurer of Veeco from May 2002 to September 2004 and Vice President and General Manager of Veeco’s NeXray division from 1995 to May 2002. Mr. Oates held various financial positions with Veeco and Veeco’s predecessor company from 1977 to 1995. |
John Kiernan |
Mr. John P. Kiernan is Senior Vice President - Finance, Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer, Corporate Controller of Veeco Instruments Inc. Prior thereto, he was Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller of Veeco from April 2001 through June 2005, Vice President and Corporate Controller from November 1998 to March 2001 and Corporate Controller from February 1995 to November 1998. Prior to joining Veeco, Mr. Kiernan was an Audit Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP from October 1991 through January 1995 and held various audit staff positions with Ernst & Young LLP from June 1984 through September 1991. |
Peter Collingwood |
Mr. Peter Collingwood is Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales and Service of Veeco Instruments Inc., since January 2009. From October 2008 to December 2008, he was Vice President and General Manager for Veeco’s European operations. He joined Veeco from JDSU (formerly Acterna, which was formerly TTC), where he served as the Regional Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa for the Communications Test Division from April 2004 to December 2008. Prior to that, he held various management positions at JDSU and JDSU’s predecessors from January 1987 to April 2004. |
Roger McDaniel |
Mr. Roger D. McDaniel is Lead Independent Director of Veeco Instruments Inc. He currently retired, was President and Chief Executive Officer of IPEC, Inc., which manufactured chemical-mechanical planarization (“CMP”) equipment for the semiconductor industry, from 1997 to April 1999. Through August 1996, Mr. McDaniel was Chief Executive Officer of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., a producer of silicon wafers. Mr. McDaniel is a past Chairman of SEMI and also serves on the board of Entegris, Inc. Mr. McDaniel has experience in the process equipment and materials industry, having served as chief executive officer at several companies operating in this field. Mr. McDaniel has also served on public and private boards, both domestic and international, which has resulted in a broad understanding of the operational, financial and strategic issues facing public and private companies. |
Edward Braun |
Mr. Edward H. Braun serves as Director of Veeco Instruments Inc. He resigned as Chairman of the Board of the Company, effective May 07, 2012. Prior thereto, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Veeco since January 1990. Mr. Braun led a management buyout of a portion of Veeco’s predecessor in January 1990 to form the Company. He joined the predecessor in 1966 and held numerous executive positions during his tenure there. Mr. Braun is a Director Emeritus of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), a trade association, of which he was Chairman of the Board in 1993. He also serves on the boards of Axcelis Technologies, Inc. and Cymer, Inc. |
Richard D'Amore |
Mr. Richard A. D'Amore is Independent Director of Veeco Instruments Inc., since January 1990. He has been a General Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, since 1994. In addition, during the past five years, Mr. D’Amore served as a director of Phase Forward Incorporated and Solectron Corporation. Mr. D’Amore brings a business background to Veeco, having worked in the venture capital field for over 30 years. Mr. D’Amore has experience as a certified public accountant and gained substantial experience in overseeing the management of diverse organizations, having served as a board member on other public company boards and numerous private company boards. As a result of this service, Mr. D’Amore has a broad understanding of the operational, financial and strategic issues facing public companies. |
Gordon Hunter |
Mr. Gordon B. Hunter is Independent Director of Veeco Instruments Inc., since June 2010. He is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Littelfuse, Inc., a provider of circuit protection products and solutions. He also serves on the Council of Advisors of Shure Incorporated. Mr. Hunter has been a director of Littelfuse since June 2002 and became Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Littelfuse in January 2005. Prior to joining Littelfuse, Mr. Hunter was Vice President of Intel Communications Group and General Manager of Optical Products Group. At Intel, Mr. Hunter was responsible for Intel’s access and optical communications business segments within the Intel Communications Group. Prior to joining Intel in February 2002, he served as President of Elo TouchSystems, a subsidiary of Raychem Corporation. Mr. Hunter also served in a variety of positions during a 20 year career at Raychem Corporation, including Vice President of Commercial Electronics and a variety of sales, marketing, engineering and management positions. Mr. Hunter also serves on the Board of Littelfuse and CTS Corporation. |
Keith Jackson |
Mr. Keith D. Jackson serves as Independent Director of Veeco Instruments Inc., since February 27, 2012. Mr. Jackson is President and Chief Executive Officer of ON Semiconductor Corporation, appointed in November 2002. Mr. Jackson has over 30 years of semiconductor industry experience. Before joining ON Semiconductor, he was with Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Analog, Mixed Signal, and Configurable Products Groups beginning in 1998, and, more recently, was head of its Integrated Circuits Group. From 1996 to 1998, he served as President and a member of the board of directors of Tritech Microelectronics in Singapore, a manufacturer of analog and mixed signal products. From 1986 to 1996, Mr. Jackson worked for National Semiconductor Corporation, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of the Analog and Mixed Signal division. He also held various positions at Texas Instruments Incorporated, including engineering and management positions, from 1973 to 1986. Mr. Jackson has served on the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association since 2008. |
Peter Simone |
Mr. Peter J. Simone is Independent Director of Veeco Instruments Inc., since July 2004. He is a retired executive who currently serves as an independent consultant to several private companies and the investment community. From June 2001 to December 2002, Mr. Simone was Executive Chairman of SpeedFam-IPEC, Inc., a semiconductor equipment company which was acquired by Novellus Systems, Inc. From August 2000 to February 2001, Mr. Simone was President and a director of, and from January 2000 to August 2000 was a consultant to, Active Control eXperts, Inc., a supplier of precision motion control and smart structures technology. From April 1997 to January 2000, Mr. Simone served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Xionics Document Technologies, Inc. Prior thereto, Mr. Simone spent 17 years with GCA Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor photolithography capital equipment, where he held various management positions, including president and director. Mr. Simone is also a director of Cymer, Inc., Inphi Corporation, Monotype Imaging, Inc. and Newport Corporation. Additionally, during the past five years, he served as a director of Sanmina-SCI Corporation. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
John Peeler |
2,958,280 |
David Glass |
1,324,400 |
William Miller |
1,561,640 |
Robert Oates |
882,235 |
John Kiernan |
629,492 |
Peter Collingwood |
1,254,870 |
Roger McDaniel |
-- |
Edward Braun |
2,037,590 |
Richard D'Amore |
-- |
Gordon Hunter |
-- |
Keith Jackson |
-- |
Peter Simone |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2011
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
John Peeler |
108,333 | 4,337,140 |
David Glass |
16,666 | 318,082 |
William Miller |
63,414 | 1,306,500 |
Robert Oates |
249,668 | 2,434,490 |
John Kiernan |
128,667 | 1,464,790 |
Peter Collingwood |
6,666 | 292,425 |
Roger McDaniel |
0 | 0 |
Edward Braun |
1,668,001 | 904,017 |
Richard D'Amore |
0 | 0 |
Gordon Hunter |
0 | 0 |
Keith Jackson |
0 | 0 |
Peter Simone |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
BRAUN EDWARD H |
1,171 | $37.09 |
GLASS DAVID D |
3,224 | $30.34 |
PEELER JOHN R |
1,368 | $34.60 |
PEELER JOHN R |
3,500 | $0.00 |
GLASS DAVID D |
241 | $34.60 |
GLASS DAVID D |
667 | $0.00 |
COLLINGWOOD PETER |
1,166 | $0.00 |
MILLER WILLIAM JOHN |
842 | $34.60 |
KIERNAN JOHN P |
277 | $34.60 |
COLLINGWOOD PETER |
404 | $34.60 |
PEELER JOHN R |
30,000 | $0.00 |
KIERNAN JOHN P |
5,750 | $0.00 |
COLLINGWOOD PETER |
6,500 | $0.00 |
GLASS DAVID D |
9,500 | $0.00 |
MILLER WILLIAM JOHN |
10,200 | $0.00 |
MILLER WILLIAM JOHN |
1,323 | $34.49 |
PEELER JOHN R |
6,537 | $34.49 |
COLLINGWOOD PETER |
3,667 | $0.00 |
KIERNAN JOHN P |
962 | $34.49 |
COLLINGWOOD PETER |
1,270 | $34.49 |
HUNTER GORDON |
2,837 | $0.00 |
BRAUN EDWARD H |
2,837 | $0.00 |
SIMONE PETER J |
2,837 | $0.00 |
MCDANIEL ROGER D |
2,837 | $0.00 |
JACKSON KEITH DAVID |
543 | $0.00 |
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