Kepten has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor and solar industries. He comes to Rudolph Technologies from Spire Corporation, where he was Vice President of Solar Cell Lines. Prior to that, he spent six years at Novellus Systems, as Director of Technology and Director of New Product Development of the Electrofill Business Unit. He managed process development, engineering projects and customers engagements, initiated and developed innovative and disruptive process technologies and was instrumental in positioning Novellus Systems market leadership. Previously he was Vice President of Technology at Steag CVD Systems, later acquired by Matteson Technology.
Earlier in his career, Avishai was with Tower Semiconductor, a wafer foundry fab and long-standing customer of Rudolphs Metrology Business, where he was a Process Engineering Section Head and Flash Mixed Signal Programs Manager with particular focus on manufacturing line yield and tool uptime. His strong leadership, experience and global network of relationships within Rudolphs customer base make Dr. Kepten an excellent choice to be part of Rudolphs executive team. Avishai holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science, Electrical Engineering in the area of Microelectronics and Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, all from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and did his Post Doctoral work as a Resident Scientist with the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC).
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