Michael has over 20 years of experience in the industrial automation market and is an internationally recognized expert in Semiconductor Equipment Automation.
In 1983 Michael co-founded Techware Systems, a company that helped pioneer tool automation in the semiconductor industry. After Techware was purchased by Brooks Automation in 1996 Michael stayed on as part of the Brooks management team, and in addition to continuing to run the controls division, was involved in several technology acquisitions, and had overall business responsibility for several product groups within the Brooks portfolio.
Over the last 20 years Michael has participated at many technical forums, been an invited speaker at the APC symposium, and published numerous articles on topics covering tool control architectures, e-diagnostics, host communication standards and advanced process controls.
During this period of time Michael has overseen the delivery of thousands of controls solutions to both FABS and OEMS covering almost all of the semiconductor processes as well as processes for the FPD, magnetic media and optical markets. Michael’s strong technical background, and years of business experience, has allowed him to balance the delivery of leading edge control solutions with the need to meet market windows and evolving requirements, while maintaining quality standards.
Michael is a Professional Engineer who earned his BS in Electrical Engineering (Controls Specialty) at the University of British Columbia.
Rick is a Professional Engineer who earned his BS in Engineering Mathematics (Electrical / Controls Specialty) at Queens University.
Bill has substantially participated in, developed or brought to market, three semiconductor equipment system software products including; RPCluster from Realtime Performance, EquipeSoft from PRI Automation and ASWorx from AltaStream. Bill has traveled extensively in support of these efforts and understands international considerations in Europe, North America, Japan and the Pacific Rim. Bill led the industry as the first semiconductor OEM to go offshore to leverage the considerable talent and low cost of India.
Bill managed engineering departments for SCP Global in Boise and Nanometrics in Silicon Valley. He brings a truly innovative perspective to the outsourcing needs of equipment companies and the attributes that outsource firms need in order to bring value to the product development and deployment process.
Bill holds Bachelors of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Northern Illinois University.
For his entire career Allan has been focused on providing solutions to the international marketplace with expatriate assignments in 5 countries and responsibility for delivering global solutions tailored to for a specific country and culture. This international experience helps enable AltaStream to provide the bridge between offshore resources and local engineering requirements.
Allan earned his BS in Engineering Physics at McMaster University and his MBA at the Ivey School of Business.
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