HILLSBORO, Ore., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FEI Company announced today that Benjamin Loh Gek Lim has been named executive vice president, worldwide sales and service. Mr. Loh, 43, has most recently has been executive vice president of global field operations of Veeco Instruments Inc. . Before that he was senior vice president of Veeco's Asia Pacific Operations. Prior to joining Veeco, Mr. Loh was with Unaxis Corporation (now OC Oerlikon AG) from April 1996 to October 2005, most recently as senior vice president of Asia and president of Unaxis Shanghai. Mr. Loh is also a director of Schweiter Technologies AG. He is a graduate of Singapore Polytechnic and Tohoku University and is fluent in English, Japanese, and Chinese. He will be based in Singapore.
Don Kania, FEI's president and CEO commented, "One of our key strategies is to increase our presence in Asian markets, and Benjamin's experience in the region will be a vital element in achieving that goal. At the same time, his global perspective and experience in research, industrial, life sciences and electronics equipment markets will help us to continue our solid worldwide growth in bookings."
Bob Gregg, Executive Vice President of Global Strategic Relations, will continue to manage sales and service until Mr. Loh starts at FEI in the second half of 2007.
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