Supervisory board

Jan Lobbezoo

Jan Lobbezoo, chairman, retired in the beginning of 2007 from the Royal Philips Group after a successful 36 year international career in senior financial management positions involving working and living in different parts of the world. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Philips Semiconductors (now known as NXPSemiconductors) for 12 years until September 2005; thereafter until retirement he was Executive Vice President in Philips International.
Jan served until March this year over 12 years on the board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest semiconductor foundry organisation. He continues to serve on the board of FEI Company, a nano-technology equipment company listed in the USA on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. Jan is also chairman of the supervisory board of The Member Company {TMC}, a Dutch high tech secondment services company which Jan helped with the initial public offering on the Amsterdam Alternext Stock Exchange. He is also a member of the supervisory board of SMARTRAC n.v., a company quoted on the. Frankfurt Stockexchange. And a member of the board of a few privately owned companies.

Arthur del Prado

Arthur del Prado has served as president and CEO of ASM International since he formed the company in The Netherlands in 1968. Earlier in 1984, he co-founded ASM Lithography N.V. through a joint venture with Philips Electronics N.V. In 1983, Arthur received the Bi-Annual President's Award from the Dutch Association of Corporate Board Members and Presidents (NCD). For many years, Arthur served as a director of JESSI, the Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative and currently serves as a director of its successor MEDEA, the Micro Electronics Development for European Applications, a non-profit project. He has been appointed a member on the board of directors of various European companies and serves on the board of Dujat, the Netherlands-Japanese Trade Federation. Arthur is also a past board member of: Oce van der Grinten Nederland N.V., a manufacturer of copiers and printers; G.T.I. Holding N.V., an electronic equipment and installation company; Delft Instruments N.V., a manufacturer of high-technology industrial and defence products; and Breevast N.V., a project development and management company. He was also on the advisory council of ABN-AMRO Bank.

Pieter Kruit

Pieter Kruit (1953) is full professor of physics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He has had a chair in charged particle optics since 1989. He is (co-)author of 150+ publications in refereed international journals, author of 40+ international patents, and supervisor of 25+ PhD dissertations.

His research is mostly related to the development of electron- and ion-optical instruments. Among others, he has had research programs on nm-resolution electron spectroscopy, developments of low energy-spread electron- and ion sources and multi-beam optics for microscopy and lithography. Based upon his work in electron lithography, he co-founded MAPPER Lithography in the year 2000 together with two of his graduates.