People: Tegal Corporation (TGAL.O)

Mr. Peter Dijkstra has been appointed as Vice President - Global Sales and Distribution of Tegal Corporation. Mr. Dijkstra has more than 25 years of experience in semiconductor capital equipment market implementing global sales and service strategies. Most recently, Peter was the Director Worldwide Sales & Customer Support for Alcatel Micro Machining Systems (AMMS), a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent. The assets of AMMS were acquired by Tegal in September, 2008. AMMS specialized in designing, manufacturing, marketing and servicing Deep Reactive Ion Etch (DRIE) systems as well as Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) systems for the fabrication of MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) and semiconductor devices. Peter's career at Alcatel spanned almost 20 years and he was instrumental in their success, holding successively more responsible positions of Field Engineer, Sales Support Engineer and Sales Manager. Mr. Dijkstra also held senior engineering positions at FOM-AMOLF and VG Instruments, both based in the Netherlands, and has a degree from the Maritime Academy with an emphasis in HF Electronics and Telecommunications.