Retired President and Chief Operating Officer, JDS Uniphase
Charles J. Abbe has served as a director of Cymer since January 2003. Mr. Abbe served as president and chief operating officer and as director of JDS Uniphase Corporation from February 2000 until his retirement in June 2001. He was employed previously as president, chief executive officer and director at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. from 1998 until the company merged with JDS Uniphase in February 2000, and as vice president and general manager of its principal operating division from 1996 to 1998. From 1990 to 1996, he served in several positions of increasing responsibility, including senior vice president, electronics sector, at Raychem Corporation. Mr. Abbe practiced business consulting with McKinsey & Company from 1971 to 1989. Mr. Abbe also currently serves as director of Opnext, Inc., and CoSine Communications, Inc., both publicly held companies, and as director of several privately financed technology companies. Mr. Abbe received a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a M.B.A. from Stanford University.
 

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Cymer
Robert P. Akins, co-founder, has served as our chairman and chief executive officer since our inception in 1986. He currently serves on the board of directors of KLA-Tencor Corporation and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). He is also a member of the council of advisors to the Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (“UCSD”), and has served on the board of the UCSD Foundation. Mr. Akins received the SEMI North America Award for contributions to the field of DUV lithography, the outstanding alumnus award from UCSD, and the 2007 William W. Otterson Award, which is awarded to the San Diego company whose products have demonstrated the most significant positive impact on society. Mr. Akins received bachelor’s degrees in physics and literature, and a doctorate in applied physics from UCSD.
 

Director Emeritus, SEMI
Edward H. Braun has served as a director of Cymer since March 2003. Mr. Braun is an active member of the Board of Directors of Veeco Instruments, Inc. He was Veeco's chairman of the board from January 1990 to May 2012. In addition, he was Veeco’s chief executive officer from January 1990 to July 2007. Mr. Braun is a director emeritus of the board of directors of SEMI, of which he was chairman of the board in 1993. Mr. Braun also serves as a director of Axcelis Technologies and QD Vision, Inc. Mr. Braun received a BSME from Clarkson College of Technology.
 

CEO and Chairman of the Board, Exponent, Inc.
Michael R. Gaulke has served as a director of Cymer since August 2000. Mr. Gaulke has served on the board of directors of Exponent, Inc., a nationally recognized engineering and scientific consulting firm that performs in-depth investigations in more than 90 technical disciplines to analyze failures and accidents to determine their causes, since 1994. Mr. Gaulke served as Exponent’s executive chairman from May 2009 to June 2010 and as its chief executive officer from June 1996 to May 2009. Mr. Gaulke first joined Exponent in September 1992, as executive vice president and chief financial officer. In March 1993, he was named Exponent’s president and was appointed as a member of its board of directors in January 1994. Prior to 1992, Mr. Gaulke served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Raynet Corporation, which pioneered a fiber-to-the-curb architecture for telecommunications. Before that, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Spectra-Physics, a leading manufacturer of a broad range of lasers and laser-related products. Mr. Gaulke served as a director of LECG Corporation from June 2003 to 2007. Mr. Gaulke serves on the board of Sutter Health and is also a member of the board of trustees of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Mr. Gaulke received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a M.B.A. from Stanford University.
 

Robert S. Pepper Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley
William G. Oldham, Ph.D. has served as a director of Cymer since January 2001. He is the Robert S. Pepper Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1964. Dr. Oldham’s research interest is in semiconductor materials and process technology, including optical and extreme ultraviolet lithography. He has published more than 200 articles and holds 13 patents. He also served as an outside consultant on our scientific advisory board from its inception in 1999 until August 2002. He also served as program manager for dynamic RAM technology development and circuit design at Intel Corporation from 1974 to 1976. In 2003, he was awarded the Semiconductor Industry Association’s University Research Award for his career contributions to the semiconductor industry, and he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He also serves on the board of directors of Nanometrics Inc. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
 

Co-Managing Member of the General Partner of
Tinicum Capital Partners II, L.P.
Eric M. Ruttenberg has served as director of Cymer since October 1, 2009. Mr. Ruttenberg serves as Co-Managing Member of the General Partner of Tinicum Capital Partners II, L.P. and certain affiliated partnerships. He also serves as the Co-Managing Member of the General Partner of Tinicum L.P., a New York based investment partnership and its affiliated partnerships. Mr. Ruttenberg also currently serves as a director of several of Tinicum’s privately held portfolio companies. Mr. Ruttenberg has previously served on the boards of SPS Technologies and Kollmorgen Corporation. Mr. Ruttenberg received a B.A. from Hampshire College, where he concentrated in mathematics and business.
 

Independent Consultant
Peter J. Simone has served as a director of Cymer since July 1993. Mr. Simone is an independent consultant to the investment community and serves on the boards of directors of Inphi Corporation, Newport Corporation, Monotype Imaging, Inc. and Veeco Instruments, Inc., as well as several 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. Mr. Simone served as a director of Sanmina-SCI Corp from 2003 to 2008. Mr. Simone’s previous experience includes 17 years with GCA Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor photolithography capital equipment, holding various management positions, including president and director. Mr. Simone received a B.S. in accounting from Bentley University and a M.B.A. from Babson College.
 

Chief Executive Officer, Inphi Corporation
Young K. Sohn has served as a director of Cymer since March 2003. From July 2007 through February 2012, Mr. Sohn served as president, chief executive officer and director of Inphi Corporation, a semiconductor company, and currently serves as a senior advisor. From May 2005 through July 2007, Sohn was a senior advisor to Panaroma Capital and Silver Lake. He served as president of the Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) at Agilent Technologies Inc. from October 2003 through April 2005. Prior to joining Agilent, he served as president and chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Oak Technology, Inc. which was acquired by Zoran Corporation in August 2003. Prior to joining Oak Technology, Inc. in 1999, Mr. Sohn was employed by Quantum Corporation for six years, serving most recently as president of its Hard Drive Business. From August 1983 to January 1993, he was director of marketing at Intel Corporation. Mr. Sohn also serves on the board of directors of Arm Holdings, PLC. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. and M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.

Retired Chief Executive Officer, KLA-Tencor
Jon D. Tompkins has served as a director of Cymer since May 1999. Mr. Tompkins served as chief executive officer of KLA-Tencor Corporation from April 1997 until June 1998 and served as chairman of the board of KLA-Tencor from July 1998 until his retirement in 1999. He served as president and chief executive officer of Tencor Instruments from April 1991 until its merger with KLA Instruments in April 1997 and chairman of the board from November 1993 until the merger. He has also previously served as president and chief executive officer of Spectra-Physics. Mr. Tompkins served as director of Credence Systems Corporation from September 1999 to April 2008 and also served as its lead independent director. Since April 2003, Mr. Tompkins has served as chairman of the board of Electro Scientific Industries. Mr. Tompkins received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington and a M.B.A. from Stanford University with an emphasis in finance and accounting.