Management

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  Eitan Oppenhaim
  President & CEO

  Eitan Oppenhaim is President and Chief Executive Officer of Nova Measuring Instruments.

  Mr. Oppenhaim joined the company in 2010 as the Global Business Group Executive Vice President, where he was responsible for the company’s customers facing groups, including Global Business and Sales, Marketing, Customer support and Application. He was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in 2013.

  Mr. Oppenhaim joined Nova after serving in several executive positions in global companies in the Electronics and Telecom industries.

  Mr. Oppenhaim began his career at Comverse, where he held numerous technical and business roles in the Asia-Pacific region. Following Comverse, he served as Vice President at Orbotech, where he led the Flat Panel Display global teams. Following his role in Orbotech and Prior to joining Nova, Mr. Oppenhaim served as Vice President and Europe General Manager at Alvarion. Mr. Oppenhaim holds a BA with honors in Economics and an MBA.

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  Dror David
  Chief Financial Officer

  Mr. Dror David has served as the Chief Financial Officer since November 2005. Mr. David joined Nova in April 1998, as the Company’s Controller, and since then served in various financial and operational positions, including the position of Vice President of Resources, in which he was responsible for the finance, operations, information systems and human resources functions of the Company. Mr. David was also a leading member in the Company’s initial public offering on Nasdaq in 2000, the Company’s private placement in 2007 and the Company’s secondary offering in 2010. Prior to joining Nova, Mr. David spent five years in public accounting with Deloitte Touch in Tel Aviv, specializing in industrial high-tech companies. Mr. David is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel, holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Bar Ilan University, and an M.B.A. from Derby University of Britain.

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  Tom Larson
  Vice President of Corporate Development

  Mr. Larson was appointed as Vice President of Corporate Development in 2022. In this role, Tom is responsible for Nova’s inorganic growth strategy, including M&A and business development. Tom has more than 30 years of multidisciplinary technology semiconductor experience.  Mr. Larson joined Nova in 2015 with Nova’s acquisition of Revera, the company he co-founded in 2004. ReVera acquisition by Nova formed the basis of the company’s Materials Metrology Division, where Mr. Larson led the product marketing strategy and roadmap execution until moving into the Business Development Group in 2019.  Before ReVera, Mr. Larson served in various technical and business executive roles at Applied Materials, Schlumberger, KLA, and Tencor Instruments.  His experience includes defining, launching, and driving innovative multidisciplinary products in the fields of advanced process and process control technologies. He holds a BS in Physics from Arizona State University and post-graduate work in the Master’s program at San Francisco State University.

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  Dr. Shay Wolfling
  Chief Technology Officer

  Dr. Shay Wolfling joined Nova in 2011, as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Nova, Dr. Wolfling was an R&D manager at KLA-Tencor-Belgium (formerly ICOS Vision Systems, a public traded company acquired by KLA in 2008), where he led multidisciplinary metrology & inspection development projects. From 2000 until its technology acquisition by ICOS in 2005, Dr. Wolfling was a founder and Vice President of Research and Development of Nano-Or-Technologies, a start-up company with a proprietary technology for 3D optical measurements. Dr. Wolfling took Nano-Or from the idea stage to initial product sales. Prior to founding Nano-Or, Dr. Wolfling was a project manager in Y-Beam-Technologies, a start-up offering laser-based skin treatments. Dr. Wolfling has several patents under his name in the field of optical measurements. Dr. Wolfling holds a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, a second degree in physics from Tel-Aviv University, Israel and a Ph.D. in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• 
  Gabriel Waisman
  Chief Business Officer

  Mr. Gabriel Waisman joined Nova in 2016 as the company’s Chief Business Officer (CBO), responsible for customer facing groups, including global sales, marketing, customer support and applications. Mr. Waisman brings over 17 years of managerial expertise in a global geographically dispersed environment, and extensive experience pioneering multidisciplinary technologies, particularly within the Electronics and Telecom sectors.

  Prior to joining Nova, Mr. Waisman served as President of both Orbotech Pacific (Orbotech LTD, Hong Kong) and Orbotech West (Orbotech Inc., USA) where he was responsible for Sales & Marketing, Finance and Operations, and Customer Support. Prior to this, Mr. Waisman served in various managerial positions at Alvarion, starting as Strategic Marketing Director, EMEA, and moving on to Vice President of Strategic Accounts, General Manager of Western Europe, followed by Managing Director, Asia-Pacific. Mr. Waisman has also served as EMEA Regional Sales & Marketing Director (Broadband Division) at Comverse. He holds a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel and an MBA in Business Administration from the Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

• 
  Effi Aboody
  Corporate VP and General Manager, Dimensional Metrology Division

  Mr. Effi Aboody has served as our Corporate VP and General Manager Dimensional Metrology Division since September 2019. Mr. Aboody joined Nova in 2016 as Vice President and Head of the Global Applications team. Mr. Aboody started his career at Intel Corporation Ltd in 1996 as an Integration engineer, working in Portland and California R&D centers, in both logic and memory devices, followed by several managerial positions including Process Integration, Sort testing manager, and Yield manager. In 2008 Mr. Aboody served as Yield and Integration Departments at Numonyx Ltd focusing on NOR flash memory process and reliability. In 2011 Mr. Aboody managed the Engineering and Yield Departments at Micron Technology Ltd Fab12. In 2013 Mr. Aboody returned to Intel Corporation to manage the Fab28 Yield Organization, responsible for CPU and SoC outgoing yield performance, defects, and Labs. Effi holds an Executive MBA from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Materials Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

• 
  Adrian S. Wilson
  President & General Manager, Material Metrology Division, Nova USA

  Mr. Adrian S. Wilson Joined Nova in January 2018 as General Manager Material Metrology Division and President of our US subsidiary, Nova Measuring Instruments, Inc. Mr. Wilson has over 25 years of Semiconductor capital equipment and materials experience. Mr. Wilson joins us from Nanometrics Inc, where he held the position of Vice President & General Manager of Advanced Imaging and Analytics Business Unit. Prior to Nanometrics Inc, he held the position of Managing Director of Element Six Technologies Ltd., the non-abrasive arm of the synthetic diamond group of DeBeers, focused on thermal management and optical components for the semiconductor industry. Mr. Wilson has experience in leading both start-ups and divisions within large public multi-national companies, including KLA, FormFactor Inc. and Phoenix X-ray Systems & Services Inc., a capital equipment start-up. Mr. Wilson holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, post Grad in Marketing Management and a MBA in Technology Management. Mr. Wilson’s accreditations include Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and Fellow of the Institute of Directors (UK).

• 
  Zohar Gil
  Chief Marketing Officer

  Mr. Zohar Gil joined Nova in 2011 and served in several key business and marketing positions, including VP Marketing and Business Development, Head of Customer Management for Nova’s foundry accounts in the Asia Pacific region and Head of Marketing and Product Management. Mr. Gil currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer focusing on the company’s corporate marketing and strategy. Prior to joining Nova, Mr. Gil held leading business and marketing positions at Alvarion Ltd., including General Manager for the Carrier Line of Business and Vice President of Product Management. Prior to that, Mr. Gil served in various marketing and product management positions in 3Com Corporation. Mr. Gil holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Tel-Aviv University and an Executive MBA from Northwestern and Tel-Aviv Universities from the Kellogg-Recanati Business School of Management.

• 
  Sharon Dayan
  Chief Human Resources Officer

  Ms. Sharon Dayan joined the company in 2018 as the Corporate Vice President of Human Resources. Ms. Dayan is an experienced HR executive bringing diversified experience which covers all human resources disciplines including HR strategy, organizational and people development, M&A and employee experience. Prior to joining Nova Ms. Dayan served in several senior HR regional and corporate positions within global companies. Her most recent position, was in the role of SVP at Teva in the capacity of HR Business Partner for the global corporate functions. Prior to that she served as the Global Head of HR as part of Comverse management, responsible for all HR functions in the company. Before joining Comverse, Ms. Dayan had multiple positions in Amdocs. Ms. Dayan holds a BA in Social Science from Tel-Aviv – Jaffe college, a MSc. in Organizational Development from Tel-Aviv University and a Group dynamics diploma from Tel-Aviv university.

• 
  Gabi Sharon
  Chief Operating Officer

  Mr. Sharon was appointed as Nova’s Corporate Vice President of Operations in 2006. In this role Mr. Sharon is responsible for Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, IT and Infrastructures activities. He established Nova’s worldwide Customer Support organization and previously led the development of NovaScan 3090/Next product line, its successful market launch and initial penetration of the Copper CMP market. Prior to joining Nova, Mr. Sharon served as the Marketing Project Manager in ECI Telecom, where he was responsible for implementing backbone telecommunication networks projects in several countries across Asia. Mr. Sharon holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and M.Sc. in Technology Management from Polytechnic University in New York.