Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> July 7, 2003

Alfred Pease – Perceptron Inc (prcp)

ALFRED A. PEASE is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Perceptron, Inc., a global company that designs, manufactures and markets information-based solutions for process improvement. He came to Perceptron with over 25 years of technical leadership and management experience in a wide spectrum of organizations, including entrepreneurial business, Fortune 500 companies, National Laboratories and the military. Before taking over Perceptron, Mr. Pease was the Product Line Director for High Speed Networks at Advance Micro Devices in Sunnyvale, California, where he led a multidisciplinary team of 75 engineers and technicians through aggressive growth. Before joining AMD, Mr. Pease had a 12-year tenure as the Founder and CEO of IBS Computer Corporation, an early pioneer in multiprocessor architectures and desktop client-server systems. He served as a Physicist and Project Leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he led the development of the laser and optical systems for the first Advanced Laser Isotope Separation process. He served for nine years as a U.S. Naval officer and Navy strike-fighter pilot. Mr. Pease graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, with a BS in Physics. He holds an MS in Physics from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and an MS in Aeronautical Systems from the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with an overview of Perceptron?

Mr. Pease: Perceptron has been in business since 1981. We are the

leading supplier of information-based process improvement solutions