MDC Vacuum Products, LLC Announces New Chief Executive Officer
Hayward, CA, March 22, 2010 – MDC Vacuum Products, LLC (“MDC” or the “Company”) today announced the appointment of Nigel Wenden as Chief Executive Officer and member of its Board of Managers, effective today.
“We are very excited to have a senior executive of Nigel’s caliber join MDC Vacuum Products, LLC,” said Sary Awad, a member of the company’s Board of Managers. “Nigel’s energetic leadership skills, together with his customer and operations centric approach, will allow MDC Vacuum Products, LLC to strengthen its leadership position in the high and ultra-high vacuum components market as well as accelerate its growth into new product and service offerings.”
Prior to joining MDC, Mr. Wenden was Executive Vice President and Director of the U.S. division of Edwards Limited (formerly BOC Edwards), a leading supplier of vacuum solutions, subsystems and exhaust management products to the research, semiconductor, renewable energy and industrial vacuum industries.
Mr. Wenden has also held a number of senior vacuum industry leadership positions including Executive Vice President of Strategic Alliances at the OEM Group, a privately held global leader in the remanufacturing of wafer processing equipment, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Business Operations and Director of Mattson Technology, Inc. (NASD:MTSN), a publicly traded semiconductor wafer processing equipment manufacturer, and Vice President of the Gas Products Business Unit of Mykrolis Corporation, formerly the Microelectronics Division of Millipore Corp. (NYSE:MIL), a leading supplier of vacuum and flow control, pressure measurement and fluid purification solutions for semiconductor manufacturing, where he held and number progressively senior positions over a period of nearly 20 years.
Mr. Wenden holds a Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Coventry University, England; and received a Diploma in Manufacturing and Production Engineering from the Chelmer Institute of Technology, Chelmsford, England. He attended the Harvard Business School Strategic Marketing Executive Education Program. Mr. Wenden has served as Chair of SEMI's Sales and Marketing Executive Council. |
