Ben Bin-Ming Tsai — CTO & Executive VP of Corporate Alliances at KLA-TENCOR CORPORATION

Dr. Ben Bin-Ming Tsai, also known as Benjamin, has been the Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Alliances at KLA-Tencor Corporation since October 2006. Dr. Tsai has more than 23 years of semiconductor industry experience and deep insights into future trends in semiconductor technology. He started his career at KLA Instruments in 1984 and held a variety of management positions. He served as Group Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Systems of KLA-Tencor from 2000 to 2004 and was responsible for some of its key technology alliances for optics and sensors. He also served as General Manager for the Wafer Inspection Division at KLA-Tencor. Prior to returning to KLA-Tencor in October 2006, Dr. Tsai served as a Senior Vice President of Technology at Tokyo Electron Limited from January 2005 to October 2006. He has been a Director of Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. since May 2008. He served as a Director at Ultratech Inc. since October 2009. He has been granted more than 30 patents. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University and a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Tsai has also completed Executive Business Administration courses at the Stanford Executive Institute and the Japanese Efficiency Institute in Tokyo.