John Carrington joined MiaSole as Chief Executive Officer in November 2011. Carrington brings a host of solar and managerial experience having served as Executive Vice President at First Solar, where he directed the company’s global sales, marketing and product management initiatives and supported its targeted expansions in Europe, Middle East, Asia and the U.S. During his tenure at First Solar Carrington grew revenue from $400MM to over $2B. Prior to this, Carrington spent 16 years at General Electric in a range of global leadership roles, including four years in Japan running the Asian marketing and business development team.
Ms. McClendon joined MiaSolé as its Chief Financial Officer in November 2006.
She brings to the company extensive experience as a public company CFO with expertise in the many aspects of financial management and administration important to MiaSolé's next growth stage. Ms. McClendon has over 20 years experience in finance, with 10 years in CFO roles for public and private fabless semiconductor companies including Mellanox Technologies Ltd., Transmeta Corp. and NeoMagic.
She has directed finance, legal, human resources and information technology organizations for companies which have grown from privately held startups to multi-national, public companies and has successfully completed financial equity and debt transactions, mergers and acquisitions, IP licensing and divestitures.
Ms. McClendon received her Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University. She is a certified public accountant and began her career as an audit manager with Deloitte and Touche.
Bob Baker is President of MiaSole, Inc. where he is responsible for all day-to-day operations. Baker comes to MiaSole after a 32-year career at Intel Corporation, bringing deep experience across manufacturing, business and management. Baker joined Intel in 1979 in Santa Clara, California to focus on equipment, processing and technology development. From 1996 to 2001, he managed Fab Sort Manufacturing and Intel Components Manufacturing. In 2001, he was appointed co-General Manager of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group (TMG), where he ran all of the worldwide manufacturing and supply chain, corporate services, purchasing, and planning. Between 2008-2010, Baker was also responsible for both the New Business Initiatives Group, the NAND Solutions Group and the NAND joint venture with Micron.
Baker received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University.
Dr. Atiye Bayman has 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Miasolé, she was with Novellus Systems Inc. for 8 years. At Novellus, as Director of Technology for the high density plasma products, she was responsible for process development for dielectric deposition for gap fill applications. Dr. Bayman developed expertise in device performance optimization and process integration at Synergy Semiconductor Inc., a semiconductor device company specialized in fast memory and application specific chips. During her 11 years at Synergy, she held positions in yield management and technology development. She started her career at Advanced Micro Devices, where she developed plasma etch processes for AMD’s first trench isolated bipolar technology. Dr. Bayman holds a Ph.D in solid state physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Bachelor of Science in physics from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
Sheri S.Bebb, Ph.D., loves to help create winning businesses and counsel employees on how to grow their careers. Before joining MiaSolé, Sheri was the Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development for GOJO Industries, the makers of Purell®, in Akron, Ohio. From 2005-2010, she was a Vice President of Human Resources for Kimberly-Clark, for HR Technology and Innovation where she helped lead the company to a global Workday®, cloud computing HRIS platform. Prior to that, she was the HR Business Partner for the KC Global Health Care Business in Roswell, Georgia, and the KC North Atlantic Consumer Group in Neenah, Wisconsin.
Before joining KC, Sheri held a number of positions at Hewlett-Packard, spanning roles from Business Partner forthe Global Operations IT supporting aworlwide organization of 2500, to Talent Management Manager where she developed initiatives and tools for succession planning. In her first role at HP, Sheri served as an Organizational Effectiveness consultant for the HP Software and Services Group. Prior to joining HP, she was a VP at Drake Beam Morin, where she provided career coaching for Silicon Valley employees. Sheri has a B.A. in Communications from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University. She has been a volunteer for the Bay Area Habitat for Humanity, and for the YMCA of the Fox Cities (Wisconsin), where she served as a Board Member.
Dr. Jason Corneille joined Miasolé in October 2007 to lead the company’s back-end assembly processes and engineering. He brings 12 years of innovation and accomplishments in semiconductor equipment process and integration and development. Prior to Miasolé, Dr. Corneille was Sr. Director of KLA-Tencor’s Metrology Divisions Group Marketing, where he lead strategic coordination between KLA-Tencor’s five metrology divisions and was responsible for developing strategies and growth for new markets and applications. Before KLA-Tencor, Dr. Corneille worked at Blue-29 as Sr. Director of Strategic Technology and Sr. Director of Operations. He has also held product management, account technology management, and process development management positions at Novellus Systems, Inc. Dr. Corneille received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Southeastern Louisiana University and his Ph. D. in Analytical Chemistry (Surface Science) from Texas A&M University.
Richard (Rich) Hossfeld is Vice President of Global Business Development and Sales for MiaSolé with a prime focus on increasing the company’s sales pipeline, expanding its business model globally and executing strategic partnerships.
Hossfeld has a deep knowledge of the energy and solar industries, having previously served as vice president of business development at both First Solar and Fluidic Energy. Hossfeld also has proven experience in developing and leading market entry and go-to-market strategies in North America, Asia and Latin America . During his tenure at First Solar, the company entered the North America market, compiled a 2.2 GW pipeline of contracted projects, acquired project development and EPC businesses and launched operations in Asia. Additionally, Hossfeld has been an active participant in numerous global clean energy forums, including Clean Energy Trade delegations to China and India led by former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu’s Clean Energy Ministerial.
Prior to joining First Solar, Hossfeld practiced corporate law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Hossfeld received his bachelor's degree in economics and government from Claremont McKenna College and his juris doctor from Duke University School of Law.
Cindy Peterson brings over 15 years of experience in semiconductor high volume manufacturing, new product introduction, management practices, and lean manufacturing experience to Miasolé.
Previously Ms. Peterson worked at Intel Corporation for 10 years as both a factory engineering manager and corporate level program manager on multiple factory process transfers from the Intel Process Technology Development group, including green field factory startups. Most recently Ms. Peterson has worked in Hitachi Corp. in sales and application support at the top 3 US semiconductor manufacturing companies and as Director of Communications for a management practices consulting firm.
Ms. Peterson received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University.
Dr. Paul Shufflebotham is Miasolé's Vice President of Engineering for the Front End of the Line (vacuum deposition systems). Dr. Shufflebotham has over 17 years of management experience in the semiconductor capital equipment industry. He most recently served as Vice President of Metrology Engineering at KLA-Tencor Corporation, where he managed a global engineering organization responsible for a half dozen major product lines. Prior to KLA-Tencor, Dr. Shufflebotham served in several senior engineering management roles at Novellus Systems Inc., including General Manager of the Aluminum PVD business, Director of Product Development for the PVD Division and Director of Product Development for the High Density Plasma CVD Division. Prior to this Dr. Shufflebotham held various engineering and management roles at Novellus Systems and Lam Research Corporation. Dr. Shufflebotham holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. Shufflebotham holds 12 patents and 22 publications in areas related to plasma deposition process and equipment development.
Prior to joining Miasolé, Dr. Smith was Vice President and General Manager at Novellus’ Physical Vapor Deposition, Plasma Enhanced CVD and Electroplating Business Units. Dr. Smith additionally spent 8 years in technical and business leadership roles at Applied Materials and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Smith holds a Ph. D. in Chemistry from Cal Tech as well as a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
