Cypress Perform

Wilbert Van Den Hoek

Director

Wilbert van den Hoek retired from Novellus Systems, Inc. in 2008, where he was president and chief executive officer of Novellus Development Company, LLC from 2005. He joined Novellus Systems, Inc. in 1990 and served in various senior executive positions until his retirement in 2008. From 1980 to 1990, he held various positions at Philips Research Laboratories. He is also chairman of the board of directors of SDC Materials, a privately held company focused on creating and commercializing high value nano-enhanced products, where he has served since January 2011. He is chairman of the board of directors of Replisaurus Technologies, AB, a privately held company that develops metallization solutions for the electronics industry and has served as a member of the board of directors since 2009. From 2004 until 2006 when the company went public, he served on the board of directors of Neah Power Systems, Inc., a company that develops silicon based direct methanol fuel cells. For the past seven years he has served on Cypress's Technical Advisory Board. Since 2005, he has served on the technical advisory boards of various organizations, Cavendish Kinetics, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, that develops 3rd generation MEMS technology integrated with standard CMOS processes, Innopad, Inc., a privately held company that develops and markets polishing pads for chemical mechanical planarization applications, Innovent Technologies, LLC, a privately held engineering and manufacturing company; and Process Relations, an independent software vendor that specializes in developing and transferring high-tech manufacturing processes. Mr. van den Hoek received a Doctorandus degree in Chemistry from the Rijks Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands in December 1979.

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