Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 18, 2002
VAHE SARKISSIAN was appointed President and Chief Executive
Officer of FEI Company in May 1998 and Chairman of the Board in
2002. Previously, he was President and CEO of Metrologix Inc., an
electron beam metrology company that was acquired by KLA. Prior
to Metrologix, Mr. Sarkissian was President and COO of Silicon
Valley Group, and was President and CEO of SVG Lithography
Systems, a subsidiary of SVG, where he led the Micrascan Step and
Scan Deep UV lithography business. Prior to SVG he was Vice
President of Data General Corp. responsible for the semiconductor
and telecommunication products divisions where he led a major
telecommunications venture with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph.
Mr. Sarkissian was also instrumental in the incubation of Actel
and Power Integration at Data General. He has also held several
technical and management positions with semiconductor companies,
including AMD where he was a key founding member of the memory
and microprocessor products businesses. He has also served on the
boards of several high tech start up companies. Mr. Sarkissian
holds a BSEE from Northrup University and an MSEE from the
University of Santa Clara. Profile
of FEI Company?
Mr. Sarkissian: FEI went public in 1995 and, since then, has
grown through both internal expansion and
