News Article
New man for Rudolph's business development
Rudolph
Technologies promotes Rajiv Roy to VP business development.
The provider of process
characterisation solutions for the semiconductor manufacturing
industry, announced the promotion of Rajiv Roy to the new position of
vice president of business development and director of back end
product management, effective July 1, 2008.
According to Paul McLaughlin, Rudolph’s CEO, “Inorganic growth through mergers and acquisitions is one of three initiatives we are pursuing to deliver on our vision for growth, and Rudolph is positioned to be a consolidator as our semiconductor capital equipment industry matures. Roy’s extensive background in inspection and instrumentation combined with his keen knowledge of our customers make him uniquely qualified to help execute our ‘roll-up’ strategy in this new position.”
Roy has been with Rudolph and predecessor companies, August Technology and Semiconductor Technologies and Instruments (STI), for the past eight years. He has held several senior management and marketing positions, and more recently has been actively involved in the development of Rudolph’s back end growth. Roy has led the integration of RVSI into Rudolph’s Inspection Business Unit as well as the integration of Applied Precision semiconductor products and technology into Rudolph’s global infrastructure.
Roy spent 18 years with Texas Instruments in various management and engineering roles. While at Texas Instruments, Roy was elected to become senior member of the technical staff. Roy holds a Bachelor in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, a MS in Math Sciences and a MA in Marketing and Management Sciences both from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an elected senior member at Society of Mechanical Engineers, Machine Vision Association.
According to Paul McLaughlin, Rudolph’s CEO, “Inorganic growth through mergers and acquisitions is one of three initiatives we are pursuing to deliver on our vision for growth, and Rudolph is positioned to be a consolidator as our semiconductor capital equipment industry matures. Roy’s extensive background in inspection and instrumentation combined with his keen knowledge of our customers make him uniquely qualified to help execute our ‘roll-up’ strategy in this new position.”
Roy has been with Rudolph and predecessor companies, August Technology and Semiconductor Technologies and Instruments (STI), for the past eight years. He has held several senior management and marketing positions, and more recently has been actively involved in the development of Rudolph’s back end growth. Roy has led the integration of RVSI into Rudolph’s Inspection Business Unit as well as the integration of Applied Precision semiconductor products and technology into Rudolph’s global infrastructure.
Roy spent 18 years with Texas Instruments in various management and engineering roles. While at Texas Instruments, Roy was elected to become senior member of the technical staff. Roy holds a Bachelor in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, a MS in Math Sciences and a MA in Marketing and Management Sciences both from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an elected senior member at Society of Mechanical Engineers, Machine Vision Association.
