Bruce Rhine joined Nanometrics as Chief Strategy Officer and Director in July 2006. Prior to Nanometrics he was co-founder Chairman and CEO of Accent Optical Technolgies. He has over 20 years of product marketing business development and senior management experience in the semiconductor capital equipment industry. Previous to Accent Mr. Rhine additionally founded or co-founded two other semiconductor capital equipment companies was President and COO of Asyst Technologies and managed a $175M oxide etch business unit at Lam Research. He also serves as a board member of NEXX Systems. Mr. Rhine holds a MBA in Finance and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University where he graduated with honors. |