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Surfect Technologies Appoints Richard Tung as Vice President of Operations
Friday 24. October 2008 - Surfect Technologies, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: SUFH) , a leading provider of advanced interconnect and packaging solutions for solar cell, LED and power management applications, today announced the appointment of Richard Tung to the position of Vice President of Operations.
Mr. Tung has held general management and operations management positions in the United States and Asia Pacific region for over 25 years. Prior to joining Surfect, he was the Director of Manufacturing Engineering for Cypress Semiconductor. Mr. Tung was responsible for cost improvements, the corporate environmental green program, and automation of the Cypress manufacturing process. Previously, Mr. Tung was with Amkor Technology for over ten years. He held a variety of engineering and management positions, eventually gaining the title of Vice President of Quality Engineering. He was responsible for interfacing with both customers and factories to resolve quality related issues as well as implementing change control procedures and quality improvement programs. Mr. Tung has also held senior operations positions with National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. He holds a Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Malaya and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
Steve Anderson, chief executive officer of Surfect, commented, “We are delighted to welcome Richard to Surfect as Vice President of Operations. He has a long history of success in both management and engineering positions and we are confident that his experience in quality enhancement, streamlining operations, and reducing overall manufacturing costs will be an asset to our company as we establish our Asian manufacturing operations. We look forward to his extensive factory and product ramp-up expertise as we support customers with both tools and advanced process metallization and module interconnect solutions. We feel that Richard’s unique experience, supporting and developing tools using the Asian manufacturing base as well as packaging outsourced development, will enable us to provide stronger support to clients as module capacity ramps up worldwide and extends to the Asian marketplace. Through low-cost manufacturing, we can further help solar companies achieve grid parity utilizing our DEP technology, which in turn will help our customers improve margins, increase yields and generate higher energy output.”