Management Team
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Morris Young, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Morris S. Young is the founder and Chief Executive Office of AXT. Dr. Young co-founded AXT in 1986 and served as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board from 1989 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he served as CEO of AXT China Operations and Chief Technology Officer. In 2007, Dr. Young retired from AXT management, but continued to serve on the Board of Directors. In July 2009, Dr. Young was re-appointed as the CEO of AXT. Prior to founding AXT, Dr. Young served as a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Prior to his tenure at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Dr. Young served as a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs. Dr. Young holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Chengkung University , Taiwan, a Master of Science degree in metallurgy from Syracuse University and 1975 a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Metallurgy from Polytechnic Institute of New York University. |
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Raymond Low
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Low joined AXT as Corporate Controller in February 2005 and was promoted to Vice President, Corporate Controller in July 2006. From June 2004 to February 2005, Mr. Low was an independent consultant on a Sarbanes Oxley assignment. From May 2002 to June 2004, Mr. Low was corporate controller of Therasense, Inc. (now Abbott Laboratories), a publicly traded manufacturer of blood glucose monitors. From April 2000 to May 2002, Mr. Low was corporate controller of RStar Networks Inc, a publicly traded internet service provider. From April 1998 to April 2000, Mr. Low was director of accounting for AT&T. Mr. Low spent three years in public accounting with BDO Seidman in San Francisco, and three years in public accounting with Deloitte & Touche in South Africa. Mr. Low is a California certified public accountant, and a member of the California Society of CPAs. Mr. Low is a past member of the chartered institute of management accountants in the United Kingdom. Mr. Low has an M.B.A. degree from Chadwick University, Alabama, a Bachelor of Accounting Science Honors degree from the University of South Africa, and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Rhodes University, South Africa..
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Davis Zhang
President, Joint Venture Operations
Mr. Zhang co-founded AXT in 1986. He is our president, joint venture operations, and has served as senior vice president, production from January 1994 until August 1999, as president of the substrate division from August 1999 to 2003 and as senior vice president of production since 2003. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Zhang served as our senior production manager. Mr. Zhang studied mechanical engineering at Communication University, Beijing, China. |
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John J. Cerilli
Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing
Mr. Cerilli joined AXT as Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing in August 2005. Prior to joining AXT, from January 2004 to July 2005, Mr. Cerilli was head of sales and marketing for AIXTRON-AG in Aachen, Germany, where he was part of their Silicon Semiconductor Technologies team responsible for equipment sales in the USA, Europe and SE Asia. From 1976 until 2004, Mr. Cerilli held various executive level and management positions in wafer fab operations and capital equipment sales and marketing for National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, GTE Microcircuits, and Speedfam-IPEC. During this time, he also worked as vice president of sales and marketing for two leading semiconductor market research firms, Cahners-InStat and Semico Research Corporation. Mr. Cerilli has a B.A. degree from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and an M.S. degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix in Arizona. |
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Robert G. Ochrym
Vice President of Business Development, Strategic Sales & Marketing
Mr. Ochrym joined AXT as Vice President, Business Development in June 2005. Prior to AXT from 2003 to May 2005, Mr. Ochrym was national sales manager at Aixtron, Inc., where he was responsible for North American sales and marketing functions. From 1973 to 2003, Mr. Ochrym held various positions in sales and marketing, business development and product management at Uniroyal Optoelectronics, Northrop Grumman and Rhone-Poulenc, and had extensive involvement with rare earths and gallium businesses. Mr. Ochrym has a B.A. degree in Biology from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. |
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Hani Badawi, Ph.D.
Vice President of Applications Engineering, Intellectual Property and Quality Assurance
Dr. Badawi joined AXT in July 2004 and was promoted to Vice President of Applications Engineering in March 2005. In 2007 and 2009 he has taken on the added responsibilty for Intellectual Property and Quality Assurance, respectively. Prior to AXT, Dr. Badawi was with AmberWave Systems Corporation, NH where he served for two years as vice president of engineering. Since 1981, Dr. Badawi has held management positions at ITT, Grumman Aerospace, Hughes Aircraft, Anadigics Corp. and ATMI. He has over 28 years of experience in the field of GaAs, 7 patents and over 30 technical papers in reputable journals. Dr. Badawi earned his BEE degree in 1969 and his Ph.D. degree in 1976 from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and, the University of Kent, UK, respectively. Dr. Badawi is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS). He is also a member of the Compound Semiconductor Materials Committee of the SEMI Standards Program and has served for 5 years as a member of the Technical Program Committee of the Compound Semiconductor MANTECH Conference.. |
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