Steve Westrate

Steve Westrate has over 35 years experience in the global semiconductor capital equipment and related businesses as an executive, entrepreneur, investor, and consultant. He has held senior executive positions at Nanometrics, Novellus Systems (co-founder), Prometrix and Therma-Wave—both now merged with KLA-Tencor, Accent Optical Technologies, and several start-ups. Mr. Westrate’s focus on the Board is in the areas of strategic sales and marketing.

Steve has been an advisor to VEM since its inception and was asked to join the Board in 1994.