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3 December 2009

 

Obducat appoints new CEO

Obducat AB of Malmo, Sweden, which supplies systems based on nano-imprint lithography (NIL) and electron-beam lithography, says that its CEO Patrik Lundström has announced his intention to leave the company as it reaches the industralization phase.

Obducat is a public company, partly owned by nanotechnology investment firm European Nanoinvest AB (ENI), where Lundström is the second-largest shareholder. He is returning to ENI.

Lars Tilly has been appointed as the new CEO, and will take up his new position in February. As well as having a PhD in semiconductor physics, Tilly has experience from the semiconductor sector and is currently head of research at Ericsson in Lund, Sweden. His experience of converting research into commercialized products will be of value to Obducat and its future development, the firm reckons.

After an MSc in Engineering Physics at Lund Institute of Technology followed by graduate research in its department of Solid State Physics, Tilly began his professional career with post-doctoral employment at IBM Research Division in New York, developing technology from an advanced research stage into commercialized technology in the production of ultra-fast semiconductor circuits.

Tilly was employed within the Ericsson Group firstly as a specialist in semiconductor physics, device physics and circuit design at Ericsson Microelectronics in Kista, Sweden. He then moved to Lund where, for the last six years, he has been head of Ericsson's R&D, focusing on mobile telephone technology (spanning from hardware and radio technology to applications and services). He has also been active in deepening the collaboration between the telecom industry and colleges, including creating industrial research forums, such as Mobile Heights in Lund.

Tilly brings valuable knowledge and industrial background from the semiconductor sector, says Obducat’s chairman Henri Bergstrand. “At Ericsson, Lars has been an important driver behind large parts of the technological development as well as the company’s strategic collaborations within mobile phone technology,” he adds. Tilly will lead the industrialization of Obducat’s nanoimprint lithography (NIL) sector, Bergstrand concludes.

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