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Joined the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2012. Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Erickson served as Corporate Officer and Senior Vice President & General Manager of Verigy’s memory test business.

Prior to that, Mr. Erickson was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Agilent Technologies’ Semiconductor Memory Test products. He has over 35 years of executive and general management, operations, marketing, sales, and R&D program management experience dating back to the late 1980s, when he began his career in semiconductor test with Hewlett-Packard’s Automated Test Group. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.

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Joined the Company as Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer in June 2023.

Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Siu served as Senior Vice President Finance, Corporate Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer at Ultra Clean Technologies, a global leading developer and supplier of critical subsystems, and ultra-high purity clean and analytical services, for the semiconductor equipment industry. He is a semiconductor industry veteran, and previously held senior management roles at GlobalFoundries, a multinational semiconductor foundry, and at Trident Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company. He began his career in public accounting with EY and Deloitte and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in California. Mr. Siu received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University in Hawaii and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Joined the Company as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing in October 2018.

Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Rogers served as head of sales and marketing at GES preceding its acquisition by Kimball Electronics. Mr. Rogers, over the past 22 years, has held numerous senior executive sales, marketing and operations management positions, successfully building multi-channel sales distribution and support organizations at both public and start-up technology companies in the semiconductor and system level test space. His career has focused on nanoscale inspection, manufacturing, and test technologies with such leaders as LitePoint (acquired by Teradyne), Credence Systems Corporation (acquired by Xcerra), NPTest (acquired by Credence Systems) and Schlumberger Automated Test Equipment. He also oversaw sales for FlexStar Technology, a Bay Area leader in hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state disk drives (SSD) test and burn-in. Mr. Rogers received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.

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Joined the company as Executive Vice President of Packaged Parts, Burn-in Business in August 2024.

Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Salamone served as President and CEO of Incal Technology, Inc. leading the company to a significant growth in the AI Burn-In market and successfully managing the acquisition of the company by AEHR. He has been in the semiconductor industry for more than 20 years covering various executive roles. From 2016 to 2019, he served as General Manager of Elemaster USA Inc, a company in the business of Electronics Manufacturing Service. Prior to that, he was the CEO of ELES Semiconductor Equipment. Mr. Salamone holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, an Executive MBA from LUISS Business School of Rome, Italy, an MSc in International HR Management from Cranfield Business School, UK, an MSc in Behavioral Science from London School of Economics, UK, and a Certificate of Management Excellence from Harvard, Boston, MA.

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Joined the Company as Chief Operating Officer in April 2022.

Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Engineer served as Head of Operations at Tecan, a Swiss company manufacturing medical test and diagnostic tools, devices, and solutions, where he oversaw operations for Tecan’s primary site in the US for manufacturing. He started his career with semiconductor equipment company KLA-Tencor where he spent 11 years and also worked at Coherent and Kateeva in positions of increasing responsibility in manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, new product introduction, and supply chain. Adil has built a career in operations and supply chain and has been in the semiconductor and medical equipment field for over 20 years. Mr. Engineer received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from TKIET, and a Graduate Certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford.

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Joined the Company as a Senior Electrical Engineer for Aehr’s Wafer Level Test and Burn-in solutions in 1998, and has held several key positions before he was elected Vice President of Engineering in March 2018.

Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Richmond was co-founder, member of the Board of Directors, and Vice President of Operations at ChipScale Inc. / Micro SMT Inc., a leader in chip scale packaging of semiconductor ICs & discrete circuits.  Prior to that, Mr. Richmond served as president of TEAM Holdings LTD. / TEAM International LTD., a semiconductor packaging subcontract.  Mr. Richmond has over 40 years of executive and general management, operations, customer support and R&D program management experience dating back to the mid-1970s when he began his career in semiconductor design with Signetics Corporation.  Mr. Richmond received a B.S.E.E. Technology from DeVry Institute Arizona.

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Joined the Company as Executive Vice President – R&D  in September, 2023.

Prior to joining Aehr, Dr. Ray-Chaudhuri served as Vice President of Hardware Engineering at FARO Technologies, a global company which is a leader in 3D imaging and visualization. He started his career in semiconductor capital equipment with KLA-Tencor where he spent 16 years and also worked at Nanometrics and Lumentum in executive positions in product development and program management. Dr. Ray-Chaudhuri received a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University – both degrees in Electrical Engineering.

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Joined the company as Vice President, Contactor Business Unit in July 2022.

Prior to joining Aehr, Mr. Sporck was President and Owner of a local company supplying components to the Wafer Probecard industry. Prior to that Mr. Sporck was a Vice President at Formfactor, a leading provider of Wafer Test Equipment. During his time at Formfactor he held various executive management positions in Design Operations, and Product Development. Mr. Sporck has over 30 years of experience in the Semiconductor Test industry and began his career with LSI Logic, a major Semiconductor company. Mr. Sporck received a MSEE from Santa Clara University.

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