Mr. Cerilli joined AXT in August 2005. Prior to AXT Mr. Cerilli was head of sales and marketing for AIXTRON-AG in Aachen Germany where he was part of that company's silicon semiconductor technologies team responsible for equipment sales in the USA Europe and SE Asia. Since 1976 and with over 29 years of experience in the semiconductor industry Mr. Cerilli has held various management and executive level positions in wafer fab operations sales and marketing with National Semiconductor Motorola Intel GTE Microcircuits and Speedfam-IPEC. During this time he also worked as vice president of sales and marketing for two leading semiconductor market research firms Cahners-In-Stat and Semico Research Corporation. Mr. Cerilli received his undergraduate degree from Marist College Poughkeepsie New York and his graduate degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix in Arizona. |