Dr.Bin-ming Benjamin Tsai

Overview

Bin-ming Benjamin Tsai rejoined KLA-Tencor in October 2006 as the Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Before returning to KLA-Tencor, Dr. Tsai held the position of Senior Vice President, Technology at Tokyo Electron Limited from January 2005 to October 2006. Previously, Dr. Tsai spent twenty years at KLA-Tencor in various positions. From 2000 to 2004, Dr. Tsai served as the Company's Group Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Systems; in this position, he was responsible for some of the Company's key technology alliances for optics and sensors. From 1998 to 1999, he was General Manager of the WIN Division, and, from 1994 to 1998, he was Chief Technology Officer of KLA Instruments. Dr. Tsai holds over twenty patents in the areas of inspection and metrology. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University and a master's degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.