Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 7, 2002

Mark Chung – Brooks Automation Inc (brks)

MARK CHUNG is the Director of Investor Relations and Public Relations at Brooks Automation, Inc. Prior to his current role, he held a sales management position for Brooks in North America for the Global Sales and Services division for two years. Prior to working for Brooks, he was employed from 1992 by FASTech Integration, Inc., now a part of Brooks, in various roles that included a 4-year international assignment to Asia with responsibility for account management, business development, and sales management. He began his career in 1985 as a manufacturing engineer for IBM in Manassas, Virginia, in the Building 130 DRAM line, and also worked at various other IBM semiconductor fabs as a process engineer, including East Fishkill, New York, Burlington, Vermont, and Essonnes, France. Mr. Chung graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. Profile
TWST: Could we start with a brief overview of the history and evolution

of the company?

Mr. Chung: Brooks was founded in 1982. The founder was Norm Brooks. In

1989, Bob Therrien led a