Management

Sexton comes to SVTC with over 25 years of financial leadership experience in technology, including 10 years with Silicon Valley based technology companies and 15 years with the leading oilfield services provider Schlumberger. Most recently Mr. Sexton worked in support of Philips Lumileds. Prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer of Ultra Clean Technology from 2005 – 2009, where he was instrumental in driving UCT’s CAGR at three times the rate of the industry, while successfully guiding the company through a secondary offering and an accretive acquisition.   Mr. Sexton was Chief Accounting Officer of NPTest from 2002 – 2004, where he managed the financial aspects of the company’s spin off from Schlumberger, through a successful IPO and subsequent merger with Credence Systems, where he later served as Corporate Controller.

Sexton, a certified public accountant, holds two Bachelor of Science degrees, in finance and accounting, from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where he graduated magna cum laude.  

Gunter Ziegenbalg currently serves as President of SVTC Solar.  Mr. Ziegenbalg focuses on growing the company’s global solar business as well as defining, establishing and overseeing the photovoltaic manufacturing development facility. 

Mr. Ziegenbalg previously was a key executive at Moncada Energy Group, Italy, where he led the successful volume production ramp of a 50 MW thin film solar line. Prior to that, Mr. Ziegenbalg was Managing Director of Signet Solar where he built the first SunFab Gen8.5 production line, ramping to volume production in record time of 14 months. Before joining the solar industry in 2007, Mr. Ziegenbalg spent 18 years in the semiconductor industry.  From its founding in 1996, Ziegenbalg was President of ZMD America, Inc. and later Executive Vice President of Foundry Operations for ZMD AG, until September 2002. He previously also held several management positions at ZMD in IC design, technology development, manufacturing and technical marketing. Prior to that Mr. Ziegenbalg worked as a nuclear physicist at the Nuclear Research Center in Dresden, Rossendorf.

Mr. Ziegenbalg is a recognized industry expert in renewable energy and has given several key-note addresses at solar conferences.  He is also a founding member of Fab Owners Associations (FOA).  Mr. Ziegenbalg received his master’s degree in Nuclear Physics from the University of Technology, Dresden and an Executive MBA degree from Pepperdine University. 

Mr. Catabay has submitted more than 100 invention disclosures and has been awarded more than 55 patents with more than 26 patents pending during his tenure with LSI Logic. He has published more than 30 technical articles in professional journals and presented at various technical conferences. In addition, he was the Patent Liaison and Inventor of the year at LSI Logic. He has a BS degree in Industrial Technology from San Jose State University with a minor in Business Management. During his spare time, Wilbur enjoys spending time with his family, including fishing and photographing nature.

Before joining eSolar, he served as Managing Director at Cypress where he spearheaded the creation of an external foundry business. Prior to joining Cypress, Legere was Vice President of Operations at Validity Sensor where he launched the first volume production of fingerprint sensors. Before this, while General Manager at Atmel, Mr. Legere built and operated a state-of-the-art wafer fab with continually improved profitability. Early in his career he was recruited as a Manufacturing Engineer at Xicor, where he was known for the lean transformation of manufacturing operations.

Mr. Legere was the recipient of a Sherman Fairchild scholarship, holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Amherst College and an MBA degree from the University of Colorado-CS.

Jon Myers joined SVTC Technologies in 2008 and is responsible for SVTC’s overall Sales and Marketing activities. He comes to SVTC with over 25 years of Sales and Marketing experience in the Semiconductor and Aerospace & Defense industries. Prior to joining SVTC, Mr. Myers held executive positions at Lam Research including General Manager of the Customer Support Business Group and North America Regional Operations. He led Marketing for Teradyne’s VLSI Test Division and held multiple Sales management positions at both Lam and Teradyne. He also has a strong engineering background with experience at General Electric and Hughes Aircraft Company.

Mr. Myers brings a passion for customer success and technology innovation. He continues to drive the company to identify, develop and co-create innovative solutions for our customers leveraging SVTC’s intellectual property portfolio. He has strong relationships with the venture capital community and established strategic partnerships with volume production foundries.

Mr. Myers is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an engineering degree from Cornell University. He is involved in many community organizations in his town and, on weekends, coaches and plays soccer.

Prior to joining SVTC, Mr. Anderson was General Manager of the Advanced Technology Development Facility (ATDF), a subsidiary of the SEMATECH consortium. There he transitioned ATDF from a captive resource to an independent development fab servicing a global customer base. He has also served the SEMATECH consortium in multiple capacities, including a rotation assignment as a member of the initial SEMATECH start-up team. Mr. Anderson was formerly the Managing Director of SEMI/SEMATECH, Senior Marketing Manager and Operations Manager for National Semiconductor and engineering leader for Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. He has published numerous articles in journals and trade publications and is a frequent invited speaker and panelist at conferences in industry and academia. Mr. Anderson holds a BSMSE in Materials Engineering from Purdue University, an MBA from Nasson College and completed doctoral studies in Industrial Engineering/ Management of Technology at Arizona State University.

Most recently Mr. Hudson led a global HR team supporting 1500 employees in 30 countries and developed strategy, systems, and processes to support a rapidly growing technology company on a worldwide basis. He brings strong talent management, organization effectiveness, and leadership development capabilities to support the achievement of SVTC’s strategic business objectives. Hudson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, from California State University, Long Beach, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, both with concentrations in Human Resources Management.