Thomas M. Rohrs has served as Chairman and director of our Board since May 2023. Previously, Mr. Rohrs served as Executive Chairman and director from February 2012 to May 2023 and Chief Executive Officer from September 2014 to January of 2020. Prior to Ichor, Mr. Rohrs served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Skyline Solar from 2010 to 2012 and Electroglas from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Rohrs also served as Senior Vice President of Global Operations and a member of the Executive Committee for Applied Materials from 1997 to 2002 and as Vice President of Worldwide Operations for Silicon Graphics from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Rohrs currently serves on the board of directors of Advanced Energy and Intevac. Mr. Rohrs previously served on the board of directors of Magma Design Automation, Ultra Clean Technologies and Vignani Technologies. Mr. Rohrs holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Jeffrey Andreson has served as Chief Executive Officer since January 2020 and joined the Board in February 2020. Mr. Andreson served as President of Ichor from April 2019 through January 2020. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Ichor from December 2017. From 2014 until 2017, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading provider of advanced semiconductor process control systems. Prior to Nanometrics, Mr. Andreson served for seven years as Chief Financial Officer of Intevac, Inc. a leading supplier of thin-film processing equipment and digital night vision technologies. Prior to joining Intevac in 2007, Mr. Andreson spent 12 years at Applied Materials, Inc. where he served in several financial leadership and management positions, most recently as Managing Director, Controller of the $2-billion Applied Global Services business. Mr. Andreson earned his B.S., Finance at San Jose State University and his M.B.A. at Santa Clara University. 

Mr. Haugen joined the Board in August 2017. Mr. Haugen currently serves as chief executive officer of Lockwood Industries LLC (dba Fralock), an engineered specialty materials solutions company and portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners, since February 2020. Previously, Mr. Haugen was chief operating officer of Kateeva, Inc., a leading provider of OLED mass-production equipment solutions, from January 2018 to February 2020. In 2017, Mr. Haugen established Following Seas Ventures LLC for consulting and private investment, primarily focused on equipment and solutions for sustainability and renewable energy. From 2016 to 2017, Mr. Haugen was executive vice president of engineering and operations at Cepheid Inc., a leading molecular diagnostics company, a position he held until its acquisition by the Danaher Corporation. From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Haugen was group vice president, worldwide operations and supply chain at Applied Materials, Inc. Prior to this, Mr. Haugen held various general management, product, manufacturing, and business operations roles at Lam Research Corporation through the corporate vice president level, from 1998 to 2013. Mr. Haugen’s service at Applied Materials and Lam Research included many years of international assignments at the senior executive level in Asia and Europe. Mr. Haugen began his business career at Applied Materials from 1991 to 1998 after serving four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy on surface combatant ships. Mr. Haugen received an M.B.A. from the University of California Los Angeles and the National University of Singapore and a B.S. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Southern California.

 

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Human Capital Committee

Mr. Titinger joined the Board of Directors in June 2022. Mr. Titinger is the CEO of Titinger Consulting, a private consulting and advisory service firm he founded in November 2016, which focuses on providing strategy, corporate transformation and culture advice to its clients. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Titinger served as president, CEO and director of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a global leader in high performance computing. Prior to Silicon Graphics, Mr. Titinger served as president, CEO and director of Verigy, Ltd., a provider of advanced automated test systems to the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Verigy in 2011, Mr. Titinger held executive positions at FormFactor, Inc., KLA‑Tencor Corporation, Applied Materials, Inc. and Hewlett‑Packard Company.

Mr. Titinger currently serves as a director of CalAmp Corp., Axcelis Technologies, Inc., and FormFactor, Inc., positions he has held since June 2015, August 2019, and June 2021, respectively. Mr. Titinger served as a director of Xcerra Corporation from October 2012 until it was acquired by Cohu, Inc. in 2018, where he served as a director until May 2021. Mr. Titinger also served as a director of Hercules Capital, Inc. from October 2017 to June 2020. Additionally, Mr. Titinger has served on multiple private and non-profit boards, including the Board of the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley, the Stanford Children’s Hospital, the Education Foundation of Silicon Valley, Innovate Public Schools and Panasas. Mr. Titinger is active in the start-up community both in the U.S. and Peru. He is a mentor with Endeavor and serves as a limited partner in several venture funds.

Mr. Titinger holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Management and Business from Stanford University.

 

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Mr. Kispert joined the Board of Directors in October 2018, serving as the Chair of the Audit Committee.  Mr. Kispert currently serves as a Managing Partner of Black Diamond Ventures, a California-based venture capital firm, leading sourcing, selection, and value-add efforts for companies from early to late stage.. Prior to joining Black Diamond Ventures, Mr. Kispert was CEO of Spansion, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of embedded semiconductors, from 2009 to 2015 where he lead the company out of bankruptcy in early 2009 to a profitable, growing company with over $1.5 billion in annual revenues, eventually completing a merger with Cypress Semiconductor in March 2015. Previously, Mr. Kispert was with KLA Tencor, an S&P 500 global semiconductor leader, from 1995 to 2009, advancing to numerous high-level positions including President and COO from 2005 to 2009 and Executive Vice President and CFO from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Kispert earned his MBA from UCLA in 1989.

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee

Iain MacKenzie has served as a director of Ichor since October 2015 and is the Lead Independent Director. Mr. MacKenzie served as director of SMART Worldwide Holdings from April 2004 until retiring in April 2019 and President and CEO from September 2005 until retiring in June 2018. Mr. MacKenzie served as its President from February 2002 to September 2005. Smart Worldwide Holdings became SMART Global Holdings through an acquisition by Silver Lake Funds in August 2011. Prior to that, Mr. MacKenzie served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations of SMART Modular from August 1998 to February 2002 and as general manager of SMART Modular Technologies (Europe) Ltd. from June 1997 to August 1998. Mr. MacKenzie holds the Higher National Diploma in mechanical and production engineering and the Ordinary National Diploma in electrical/electronics engineering from the Kirkcaldy College of Technology (Fife University) in Scotland. We believe Mr. MacKenzie is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of his extensive senior leadership experience, technical expertise and significant experience in operations, engineering and sales in the technology industries.
Chair of the Human Capital Committee

Ms. O’Dowd joined the Board of Directors in May 2020. Ms. O’Dowd is currently a director of the Independent Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy research and communications organization. From 2008 up until her retirement in March 2020, Ms. O’Dowd was senior vice president, chief legal officer, and secretary of Lam Research Corporation, and from 2009 to 2012, she also served as Lam’s vice president of human resources. Prior to joining Lam, from 2007 to 2008, Ms. O’Dowd served as vice president and general counsel of FibroGen, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical firm. Prior to FibroGen, Ms. O’Dowd spent 28 years at a major law firm, Heller Ehrman LLP, where she founded both the Silicon Valley and San Diego offices, and ultimately chaired the firm’s global business practice groups, which spanned seven offices and included more than 250 attorneys. She has been a trusted adviser to numerous boards, board committees, and CEOs. In 2019, Directors Roundtable presented Ms. O’Dowd and her legal team with its Global Honor Award, given to general counsels and their law departments.

Ms. O’Dowd holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.A. in communications from Stanford University, and an A.B. in mathematics from Immaculata College.

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Member of the Audit Committee

Dr. Arienzo joined the Board of Directors in February 2020.  Dr. Arienzo served as the Vice President of Operations at Fujifilm Dimatix, a subsidiary of Fujifilm, from 2013 to 2021.  She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Power Integrations since 2017.  From 2010 until 2013, Dr. Arienzo was the Chief Executive Officer and a director of ArrayPower. Previous technology leadership positions included serving as Executive Vice President of R&D at the Solar Energy Consortium, Vice President of Manufacturing Services at NXP Semiconductors, and Vice President and Director of Engineering at Philips Semiconductors. 

Dr. Arienzo holds a B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Materials Science Engineering from Stanford University.  Dr. Arienzo also holds a Certificate in Corporate Governance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and has completed the Executive Management Program at the Stanford AeA Institute. 

Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
Member of the Human Capital Committee

Ms. Black joined the Board in February 2019.  Ms. Black currently serves as a Managing Director of Needham & Company, a full service investment banking firm. She is a member of the board of directors of Viavi Solutions Inc. since February 2018 and serves on the Corporate Development and Nominating and Governance Committees. From April 2012 to June 2019 she was a member of the board of directors of Super Micro Computer. Prior to joining Needham & Company in March 1999, Ms. Black served as a Managing Director of Corporate Finance at Black & Company, an investment bank, beginning in July 1995. From July 1993 to June 1995, Ms. Black served as a Director for TRW Avionics & Surveillance Group where she evaluated acquisition candidates, managed direct investments, and raised venture capital to back spin-off companies. From August 1983 to August 1992, she worked at TRW as an electrical engineer designing spread spectrum communication systems. Ms. Black holds a BSEE from University of California at Davis, an MSEE from Santa Clara University, and an MS Management from Stanford.

Member of the Audit Committee

Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee

Mr. Wasserman joined the Board of Directors in May 2021. Mr. Wasserman served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Advanced Energy Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer of power conversion products that transform electrical power into various usable forms, from October 2014 until his retirement in March 2021, and has served as a director of FARO Technologies, Inc. since 2017. Mr. Wasserman previously served as President of Advanced Energy Industries’ Thin Films Business Unit from August 2011 to October 2014 and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2009 to August 2011. He previously held roles at Advanced Energy Industries of Executive Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Service from October 2007 to April 2009 and Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Service from August 2007 to October 2007. Prior to joining Advanced Energy Industries, Mr. Wasserman served as the President, and later as Chief Executive Officer, of Tevet Process Controls Technologies, Inc., a semiconductor metrology company, from May 2002 to July 2007. Prior to that, he held senior executive and general management positions at Boxer Cross, a metrology company, Fusion Systems, a plasma strip division of Axcelis Technologies, Inc., and AG Associates, a semiconductor capital equipment company focused on rapid thermal processing. Mr. Wasserman is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow and holds a BSc degree in chemical engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
Member of the Human Capital Committee