San Francisco, Ca., USA - August 7, 2009, San Francisco, Ca., USA - IA Global Inc., an investment firm, appointed Brian Hoekstra and Ryuhei Senda to the board and announced resignation of the company's CEO Derek Schneideman.
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Mr. Hoekstra graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1981, attended the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1977 until 1979, and has completed numerous professional military and continuing education courses. Mr. Hoekstra has more than 27 years of professional experience including corporate management, strategic planning and business development, as well as extensive technical expertise in lasers, optics and materials processing. From September 1999 until June 2009, he was Founder, President and CEO of Applied Photonics, Inc., a leading laser solutions provider for the flat panel display industry with an installation base located primarily in Asia.
From February 1998 until September 1999, Mr. Hoekstra was Vice President of Technology at Accudyne. From 1992 until 1998, he held various corporate positions specializing in marketing, intellectual property protection, technology transfer, and commercialization. From 1986 until 1992, he was the Deputy Director of a NASA-sponsored Commercial Center focused on space-based crystal growth. From 1983 until 1986, Mr. Hoekstra was a leading researcher at the Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB. He has been an independent director of Amtech Systems, Inc. (ASYS) since February 19, 2007.
Mr. Senda graduated from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan with a bachelor's degree of business in 1981. Mr. Senda has more than 25 years of professional experience including project and corporate management, strategic planning and business development, as well as management of investment funds. Mr. Senda was Director of Business Development of Applied Photonics, Inc., a leading laser solutions provider for the flat panel display industry from April 2004 to February 2009. He was the project manager of Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan from April 1992 to March 2004 and played key roles introducing and spreading 2D bar code in Japanese and U.S. market. At the same time, he managed the investment fund for the next generation technologies funded by Mitsubishi Corporation and certain other major Japanese companies. ■