Executive Bio
Mr. Thomas D. Kampfer, also known as Tom, has been Vice President of Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary at Cohu, Inc. since May 30, 2017. Mr. Kampfer served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. since June 15, 2015 until May 2017. Mr. Kampfer served as the President of CohuHD Costar, LLC from February 2012 to June 2015 and served as its General Manager. Mr. Kampfer served as Chief Operating Officer of LenovoEMC, Ltd. since February 2006. He served as President of LenovoEMC, Ltd., since February 24, 2006. He served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of LenovoEMC, Ltd. from November 11, 2005 to March 2006 and its Principal Accounting Officer. He served as General Counsel and Secretary of LenovoEMC, Ltd. from July 2001 to October 2005 and Executive Vice President of Business Solutions from November 2004 to October 2005. Mr. Kampfer served as Executive Vice President of Business Solutions of LenovoEMC, Ltd. until February 2006. He served as Vice President of LenovoEMC, Ltd. from July 2001 to October 2005 and also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer from June 2004 to February 2005. From February 2001 to July 2001, Mr. Kampfer served as General Counsel, Secretary and Vice President of Corporate Development of Entropia.com, Inc. From January 1995 to January 2001, Mr. Kampfer was with Proxima Corporation and served as Director of Legal Affairs since January 1996, General Counsel and Secretary since June 1997 and also served as its Vice President of Business Development. Prior to Proxima, Mr. Kampfer was with International Business Machines Corporation from 1985 to 1995, where he held a variety of positions in engineering, contracting and IBM's legal department as Counsel. Mr. Kampfer has over 30 years of financial, compliance, corporate governance, merger and acquisition, IP portfolio management and licensing and operational technology industry experience. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of H2O Audio, Inc. from 2010 to 2012. Mr. Kampfer also held numerous executive roles at Iomega Corporation from 2001 to 2009, including serving as its President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. He holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial Engineering from Purdue University and Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University.