TOKYO, Feb. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advantest Corporation hereby announces that the Board of Directors at its meeting held on February 28, 2024, resolved to change the Company’s Representative Directors as follows.
1. Reason for the changes As the Company’s next mid-term management plan starts in FY2024, the Chief Executive Officer of the Advantest Group and the President of Advantest Corporation are to be changed in order to realize even greater progress for the Advantest Group in the rapidly changing, fast-growing semiconductor industry.
2. Changes of Representative Directors
Name
New Title
Present Title
Douglas Lefever
Representative Director, Senior Executive Officer, Group CEO
Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group COO
Koichi Tsukui
Representative Director, Senior Executive Officer and President, Group COO
Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group Co-COO
Yoshiaki Yoshida
Director, Chairperson of the Board
Representative Director, President, Group CEO
3. Effective Date
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April 1, 2024
[Reference Materials] Brief biographies of the new Group CEO and Group COO
Name (Date of Birth)
Brief biography
Douglas Lefever (December 10, 1970)
May 1993
May 1995
June 1998 June 2004
September 2008 August 2014 September 2014 June 2017 June 2019
June 2020
June 2021
January 2023
Completed BSE of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan Completed Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Joined Advantest America, Inc. Completed Master of Business Administration (MBA) Northwestern University Vice President, Business Development, Advantest America, Inc. Executive Officer, Advantest Corporation Director, President and CEO, Advantest America, Inc. Managing Executive Officer, Advantest Corporation Executive Vice President, System Test Business Unit (present position) Director, Managing Executive Officer Customer Relations & Corporate Strategy Leader, Applied Research & Venture Team Director, Senior Executive Officer CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group COO (present position)
Koichi Tsukui (December 11, 1964)
March 1987
April 1987 April 1998
June 2013
June 2014 June 2015 June 2016 June 2018
June 2019 June 2020
June 2021
January 2023
Graduated from Electrical Engineering, School of Technology, Gunma University Joined Advantest Corporation Seconded Advantest (Europe) GmbH (currently Advantest Europe GmbH) Leader, New Business Enabling Division, New Concept Product Initiative Executive Officer Managing Executive Officer Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations Group Executive Vice President, Memory Test Business Unit, ATE Business Group In Charge of DH Business Group Director, Managing Executive Officer Test Technology Leader, ATE Business Group Director, Senior Executive Officer CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group Co-COO (present position)
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