Portland, Ore., USA - February 25, 2014, Portland, Ore., USA - Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a provider of photonic and laser systems for micro-engineering applications, announced that Edward C. Grady has been appointed president and CEO.
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Mr. Grady is a member of the company's board of directors. He is currently Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of REEL Solar, a private company developing a unique process for the manufacture of high efficiency low cost CdTe solar panels.
He retired in 2007 as President and Chief Executive Officer of Brooks Automation, which offers hardware products, services and tightly integrated solutions that optimize manufacturing equipment, factory operations and productivity for the semiconductor and other complex manufacturing industries including clean tech and data storage.
Prior to joining Brooks in 2003, Mr. Grady ran the wafer inspection group and the metrology groups each with multiple divisions at KLA-Tencor. Prior to KLA-Tencor he was Chief Executive Officer of Micromask, a supplier of photo masks and services to the semiconductor industry.
Mr. Grady started his career as an engineer for Monsanto / MEMC and eventually rose to the position of vice president of worldwide sales. Mr. Grady is also a director at Advanced Energy Industries, Inc., Verigy Ltd., and Evergreen Solar Inc. He also guest lectures at Boston College Carroll School in management, business development and leadership. He succeeds Nicholas Konidaris.
Mr. Konidaris has served as president and chief executive officer of Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a provider of photonic and laser based systems for micro-engineering applications, since January of 2004.
Prior to ESI he was president and chief executive officer of Advantest America, Inc. During his tenure, he established Advantest America, Inc. as the dominant supplier to the U.S. automatic test equipment market. Prior to Advantest America, Inc. he held senior marketing management positions at Teradyne.
Currently, Mr. Konidaris serves on the board of directors for Ultratech, Inc.,, a semiconductor capital equipment company. He served as chair of the Engineering Technology Industry Council (ETIC), a partnership between Oregon’s public universities and high-tech industry to create world-class engineering and computer science programs in the state, from fall 2005 to summer 2007. ■