Brian Trafas Ph.D. — Senior Vice President of Global Customer Organisation at KLA-TENCOR CORPORATION

Mr. Brian M. Trafas, Ph.D. has been Senior Vice President of Global Customer Organisation at KLA-Tencor Corporation since April 2015. As Senior Vice President Mr. Trafas is responsible for all field-based sales and field-based service teams and works in close collaboration with customers to address their needs with leading edge technology and services, while growing KLA-Tencor's business. Mr. Trafas served most recently as Chief Marketing Officer, from January 2007 to April 2015, where he was responsible for overseeing marketing initiatives, product development, marketing communications, market research and the development of marketing talent. Prior to that, from June 2000 to January 2007, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Critical Dimension (???CD???) Metrology Division and Group Vice President of Marketing for the Wafer Inspection Group. During his tenure with KLA-Tencor, Mr. Trafas has led the Company's introduction of Laser Scattering Patterned Wafer Inspection products, Scatterometry-based CD products and developed a company-wide program of marketing best practices and talent forums. Having two decades of experience in the semiconductor capital equipment industry, with an emphasis on process control, he has written extensively about CD process control, advanced patterned wafer inspection methodologies and the application of scanning probe microscopes. Mr. Trafas served as Director of Therma-Wave Inc., since May 18, 2007. Mr. Trafas holds a bachelor's degree in physics from St. John's University and a doctorate in materials science from the University of Minnesota.