Keith Bennett has a seventeen-year track record of initiating and directing the development of successful and profitable high-tech business ventures. After establishing his scientific research credentials at Stanford University and Nippon Schlumberger KK (he is proficient in Japanese), he accepted the challenge in 1986 of building the instrumentation business for Newport Corporation, the leading worldwide manufacturer and distributor of precision components and systems used for development and application of laser and optical technologies. In 1990, he established Newport's Japanese subsidiary, and served as its president until 1994. He has worked extensively as a consultant to both multinational and entrepreneurial firms. Bennett is a co-founder of Symphony Systems, and holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master's and doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University.

Richard T. Tarmey, Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer

With twenty-five years in financial management, Tarmey brings broad operations experience. Most recently he was General Manager of Eagle-Eaton Leonard, an international capital equipment manufacturer. At Eagle, Tarmey significantly improved operational efficiencies by implementing a new customer-focused enterprise solution incorporating a fully integrated configuration application. Prior to Eagle, Tarmey was Vice President and Corporate Controller of Newport Corporation and held increasingly responsible financial positions within three unique General Electric businesses. Tarmey holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Anselm College, a master’s degree in economics from Northeastern University and is a graduate of General Electric’s Financial Management Program.

Richard E. Loose, Jr., Vice-President, Engineering and Chief Technical Officer

Richard Loose is a twenty-year software-industry veteran with extensive experience in managing the creative development process. He has an exceptional background in scalable enterprise networking architectures and multi-protocol communications plus an understanding of industrial processes and issues. In his eight years at Novell/Excelan, Loose managed architectural direction for the e-mail development team and launched the initiative to integrate Novell's messaging with NetWare Directory Services. Working closely with third-party vendors, his technical evangelism helped ensure cohesion across companies and products as diverse as Borland, Apple, CompuServe, Retix, DaVinci and cc:Mail. For KLA Instruments, Mr. Loose redesigned the networking architecture of a wafer inspection tool, a key automated process-quality monitoring tool which is widely applied in the semiconductor industry. Loose is a co-founder of Symphony Systems, and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John Field, Vice-president Sales and Marketing

John Field brings senior management experience to Symphony Systems in the areas of engineering, direct sales, product marketing, and executive management. He has a comprehensive background in factory automation and semiconductor fabrication technologies. Most recently, he was with Asyst Technologies, where he was vice president of marketing and OEM sales. During his tenure, Asyst grew from under $50M in sales to over $160M, and was included on the Fortune "Top 100 Fastest Growing Public Companies" list. Prior to Asyst, Field held sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility at Applied Materials, Lam Research, and Tegal Corporation. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from San Jose State University, and has published a number of articles in both domestic and international trade press.

BOARD MEMBERS

Keith Bennett
Richard Loose

Philippe Lemaitre

Philippe Lemaitre is President and Chief Operating Officer of Woodhead Industries, Inc. Mr. Lemaitre joined Woodhead Industries in October 1999. Prior to joining Woodhead, Mr. Lemaitre held the position of Corporate Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of AMP, Inc. Prior to joining AMP, Mr. Lemaitre was employed by TRW, Inc., where he served successively as Vice President, Planning and Development, Automotive Sector; Vice President, General Manager, Automotive Electronic Group; and, then as Executive Vice President of TRW and General Manager of the Automotive Electronics Group. He previously held management and research engineering positions with International Technegroup, Inc. and in Paris, France with General Electric CAE International and Engineering Systems International. He is a graduate of Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics, Paris, France, and the University of California, Berkeley.

George H. Schneer

George Schneer has been associated with the semiconductor industry for over 35 years. He is the principal owner of Executive Management Services, a high-tech management consulting firm. Previously, Schneer has held a variety of senior management positions, including president and CEO of Adaptive Logic, Inc. and Paradigm Technology, Inc. Schneer spent over 15 years with Intel Corporation in positions ranging from VP/GM of the Components Division to operations manager and wafer fab manager.

Craig Lawson, Co-founder

Craig Lawson is a seasoned professional with nineteen years of software development experience, ranging from the design and construction of a large-scale Internet commerce site to real-time data acquisition and analysis instrumentation. Mr. Lawson's expertise includes rapid application development, distributed multiprocessing, TCP/IP, embedded systems, and graphics imaging. For Connect, Inc. (http://www.connectinc.com), Mr. Lawson was a key technical liaison between Connect, its customers, and its strategic engineering partners in the rapid design and development of custom, web-based commerce applications. These applications were based on a proprietary object database layered on top of Oracle. As lead engineer at Spectral Innovations, Mr. Lawson developed distributed software for real-time data acquisition and analysis, bringing the company's flagship spectral analysis product through several releases and devising innovative methods of displaying frequency domain information. He also developed an innovative, self-contained, real-time telephony product using an embedded processor. Other projects include solid modeling and developing graphics standards for printed-circuit-board testing. Mr. Lawson is a co-founder of Symphony Systems, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.