kla-tencor corporation (KLAC:NASDAQ GS)

Executive Profile*

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Dr. Larry W. Sonsini, Ph.D., is the Founder and Managing Partner at WS Investments. Dr. Sonsini has been instrumental in many of the most significant financial transactions in the technology sector over the last several decades, including the initial public offerings of Apple and Google and the merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq. Dr. Sonsini served as Secretary at Seagate Peripherals, Inc., ASML US Inc. (formerly, Silicon Valley Group Inc.) and KLA-Tencor Corp. Dr. ... Sonsini is the Chair of the New York Stock Exchange Commission on Corporate Governance. He serves as the Chairman of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. In addition, he serves as a Member of the Advisory Board at DISCERN Investment Analytics, Inc; StorCard, Inc; and Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Dr. Sonsini also fulfills advisory roles at the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes, Silicon Valley Bank, and the NASD. He is Member of Executive Advisiory Board at Kontiki, Inc.; and Director of SVB Silicon Valley Bank, The Engenio Storage Group and Commerce One Inc. Dr. Sonsini has been a Director of Pixar Inc. since April 1995, Echelon Corporation since 1993, Engenio Information Technologies Inc. since April 2004, and Tesla Motors, Inc. since May 2008. Previously, Dr. Sonsini served as Secretary of Pixar Inc., from April 1995 to October 1995; and was also employed at Coherent, Inc. He was formerly, the Chairman of the Board of New York Stock Exchange Inc. from 2001 to 2003 and Director of Tibco Software, Inc. Mr. Sonsini is a Director of WayIn, Inc. Dr. Sonsini serves as Advisory Director of SVB Financial Group. He served as Director and Member of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee at LSI Corporation from 2000 to February 8, 2006. Dr. Sonisini also served as the Director of Simplex Solutions Inc; Pure Atria Corporation; and Novell Inc. Previously, he was a Director and Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at Brocade Communications Systems Inc; and Director of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, from 1991 to April 7, 2004. Dr. Sonsini served as Director and Member of Governance Committee at SVB Financial Group; as Chairman of Regulation Enforcement and Listing Standards Committee and Chairman of Legal Advisory Committee at NYSE Euronext, Inc.; and as Member of the Board at CO Liquidation Inc. He was also a Member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley Group Inc., from 1991 to 1997. Dr. Sonsini has served on a number of advisory boards and committees, including The SEC's Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes, ABA Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Legal Advisory Board of the NASD, Inc., Board of Advisors, Technical Law Journal, Boalt Hall. He was admitted to the Bar in California in 1966. Dr. Sonsini has been a Member of the faculty at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley since 1985. He also lectures, from time to time, at other law schools, including Stanford University School of Law. He was chosen as the Honorary Chair of the High Technology Law Institute at Santa Clara University. In 1999, Dr. Sonsini was selected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Sonsini is a Member of the American Law Institute and a Member of the Board of Advisors to the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is a Trustee of Santa Clara University and a Member of the University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation. He served as a Trustee at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1990 to 1996. Dr. Sonsini has received a number of distinguished awards including 1993 Community Service Award for Exemplary Leadership from the National Conference for Community and Justice, 1996 Award for Achievement of the California Alumni Association at the University of California, Berkeley, 2000 Software Development Forum Third Annual Visionary Award, 2001 Member, Berkeley Fellows, 2001 Boalt Hall School of Law Citation Award, 2001 Director's Award, San Francisco Exploratorium, 2003 National Italian American Foundation's Special Achievement Award in Commerce and Law, 2005 Bay Area Business Hall of Fame Award from the Bay Area Council, and Business Leader of the Year Award from the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California. In 2007, Dr. Sonsini was named “one of the most influential players in U.S. corporate governance“ by Directorship magazine, and the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California named him “Business Leader of the Year” in 2005. Dr. Sonsini holds an A.B. Degree in Political Science and Economics in 1963, an L.L.B. Degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley in 1966. In 2003, he received an honorary doctorate from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.

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