PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ:VECO) announced today that Susan Wang has
been nominated for appointment to its Board of Directors. Her
appointment is subject to shareholder approval, which is being sought at
Veeco’s 2015 annual meeting of stockholders, scheduled to occur on May
13, 2015.
Ms. Wang served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
of Solectron Corporation, a worldwide provider of electronics
manufacturing services, until her retirement from Solectron in 2002. She
joined Solectron as Director, Finance, in 1984 and served as CFO
beginning in 1989. Prior to joining Solectron, Ms. Wang held financial
and managerial positions at Xerox Corporation, Westvaco Corporation and
Price Waterhouse & Co. She has served on several public and private
company boards, and currently serves on the board of Cirrus Logic, Inc.,
a supplier of high-precision analog and digital signal processing
components, and on the boards of Nektar Therapeutics and Premier, Inc.,
two healthcare-related companies. In addition, within the past five
years, Ms. Wang served on the boards of Altera Corporation, a
programmable semiconductor company, RAE Systems, Inc., a developer of
sensory technology for hazardous materials, and Suntech Power Holdings
Co., Ltd., a solar energy company.
Over the course of her career, Ms. Wang has played an integral role in
several significant and complex governance matters, and has served on
the audit committee, including serving as audit committee chair, on
several of the boards she has joined. She has extensive expertise in
financial, operational and strategic matters, together with a wealth of
senior management and public and private board experience.
John R. Peeler, Veeco’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We
are very pleased to have Susan join our Board at an exciting time for
the Company. We look forward to benefiting from her significant
experience as a valued member of the team.”
About Veeco
Veeco’s process equipment solutions enable the manufacture of LEDs,
flexible OLED displays, power electronics, compound semiconductors, hard
drives, semiconductors, MEMS and wireless chips. We are the market
leader in MOCVD, MBE, Ion Beam, Wet Etch single wafer processing and
other advanced thin film process technologies. Our high performance
systems drive innovation in energy efficiency, consumer electronics and
network storage and allow our customers to maximize productivity and
achieve lower cost of ownership. For information on our company,
products and worldwide service and support, please visit www.veeco.com.
To the extent that this news release discusses expectations or
otherwise makes statements about the future, such statements are
forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements
made. These factors include the risks discussed in the Business
Description and Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of Veeco's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 and
in our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on
Form 8-K and press releases. Veeco does not undertake any
obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect future
events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
Source: Veeco Instruments Inc.