Mr. Hiroe has a track record of successfully managing another US subsidiary of Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co. Ltd. (SCREEN) in the past. He was fab manager of the Semiconductor Equipment business segment and had tremendous management success as a result of his extensive knowledge of cleaning and lithography equipment. Under his new leadership, Silicon Light Machines will delve into new areas that will increase its competitive edge in MEMS technology.

Mr. Hiroe also serves as a Corporate Officer of SCREEN. The company is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, and is one of the 10 best companies worldwide in the Semiconductor Production Equipment industry. It manufactures Printing equipment, Flat Panel Display production equipment, and equipment for Printed Circuit Boards. At SCREEN, Mr. Hiroe is responsible for the Research and Development Division directly reporting to the CTO. He has made enormous contributions in R&D including his own invention of a cleaning tool that helped boost SCREEN's profitability. He holds several Japanese patents under his name.

Mr. Hiroe earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Part of that work includes developing strategic plans to transfer manufacturing to key subcontracting partners while ensuring customer commitments and quality are maintained. To do this, Mr. Fukui harnesses his long experience working with vendors in the Far East.

Mr. Fukui hails from Intel, where he was director of the optical products division. Before that he built up the manufacturing operation of LightLogic. He also has director-level management experience at Seagate Technology, IBM and Komag, Inc.

Mr. Fukui earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California in Los Angeles and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Santa Clara, California.

Before joining Silicon Light Machines, Dr. Eng was director of design engineering at Finisar Corporation. Prior to that, he was director of telecommunications product development for Lucent/Agere Optoelectronics.

Dr. Eng brings to the job more than 10 years of technical management of optoelectronic devices, more than 13 years of industrial optoelectronic technology and product development, and 10 years of III-V thin film materials growth characterization. He holds a Ph.D in applied physics from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

Ms. Lott joined the Silicon Light Machines team from her role as senior accounting manager at Cypress Semiconductor. Previously, she managed the financial planning and analysis operations group for C-Cube Microsystems. Prior to that, she held increasingly responsible financial management positions at ITT Cannon, Birtcher Medical Systems and Aeroscientific. Ms. Lott holds a B.S. in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from California State University of Long Beach.