CEO Today USA Awards

www.ceotodaymagazine.com 30 CEO Today USAAwards 2017 CALIFORNIA Thomas M Rohrs has served as executive chairman and director of Ichor Systems since February 2012 and as chief executive officer since September 2014. Prior to serving at Ichor, Mr. Rohrs worked as CEO and chairman of Skyline Solar from 2010 to 2012 and at Electroglas from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Rohrs also served as senior vice president of global operations and member of the executive committee for Applied Materials from 1997 to 2002 and as vice president of worldwide operations for Silicon Graphics from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Rohrs currently serves on the board of directors of Advanced Energy and Intevac. He previously sat on the board of directors of Magma Design Automation, Ultra Clean Technologies, and Vignani Technologies. Mr. Rohrs holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a MBA from the Harvard Business School. THOMAS M. ROHRS OUR MARKET POSITION We are a major fluid systems provider to the major process semiconductor capital equipment suppliers. We have grown faster than the market and adapted to change along with our customers. Our level of collaboration has been the single most important factor in our success. We are a leading provider and our name is well recognized as the premier engineering and design provider of fluid delivery systems to our customers. It is our mission to provide fluid expertise across all critical areas of semiconductor manufacturing through strong engineering design and manufacturing. It is our strategy to continue to expand through organic and inorganic growth to create a larger revenue stream and optimize our operations while adding more and more capability to make our customers more successful. We have been doing very well in providing our expertise (increased penetrations across all platforms), growing organically and through acquisitions (37% CAGR) and continuously improving our operations (reducing OPEX 13.2% to 10.2% from 2014-2016). The key factors to our success are: • We are a key player in the semiconductor supply chain. • We are very strong in our technical capabilities to solve difficult fluid delivery problems. • We know how to deliver those solutions to our customers. • We have a talented global workforce that is loyal to helping our customers be successful. • We have a forward-thinking executive team that encourages and supports our employees to deliver the best we have to offer. THOMAS M. ROHRS Chief Executive Officer of Ichor We are continually looking at new technologies and better ways to employ approaches that make more efficient products. While we are mostly pro-active in our strategies, we still see the need to be positively reactive to our customers. Moving forward, Ichor is actively pursuing ways to improve functionality and reduce costs by the use of the latest technologies applied to our design for new and potential products in gas and liquid delivery systems. Our vision is to continue to expand through organic and inorganic growth, so the market should expect to see a larger revenue Ichor continuing to lean itself down and optimizing its operations while adding more and more capability. THE FUTURE OF ICHOR WHO IS ICHOR? We are a dominant fluid systems provider to the major process semiconductor capital equipment suppliers. We have grown faster than the market and adapted to change along with our customers. Our level of collaboration has been the single most important factor in our success. Our name is recognized as the premier engineering and design provider of fluid delivery systems to our customers. The name Ichor means “the blood of the gods”. Fluid delivery is an essential component of semiconductor manufacturing and the company plays a pivotal role in the semiconductor industry, through its contribution to leading manufacturing companies. This inspired the name. Ichor has with manufacturing locations in California, Texas, Singapore, Malaysia and the UK. Its headquarters are located in Silicon Valley, California. A BRIEF HISTORY Our first product was mechanical engineering design services to help our customers improve the gas flow into their semiconductor process equipment reaction chambers. This eventually evolved into providing more and more capabilities to provide more complete solutions to our customers including weldments, gas panel assembly and chemical modules. In the early 2000’s, we began expanding our manufacturing footprint into Malaysia and Singapore to support the growing global presence of our customers. By the late 2000’s we had begun supporting the global LED business and once again expanded our footprint in North America. Most recently, we acquired a plastics machining company to support the growing chemical delivery needs of one of our customers as well as an acquisition to expand our weldment capabilities. We also have added the capability to vertically integrate some of our precision machining. These acquisitions will allow us to support our key customers as well as help us gain entry into new markets.