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Dan Maydan is the retired president and director of semiconductor manufacturing equipment company Applied Materials, Inc. During his 26-year tenure with Applied Materials, Maydan served in numerous positions and is credited with the fast growth that has brought the company into a leadership position as a supplier of process equipment to the semiconductor and Liquid Crystal display industries. Before joining Applied Materials in September 1980, Dr. Maydan spent thirteen years managing new technology development at Bell Laboratories during which time he pioneered laser recording of data on thin-metal films and made significant advances in photolithography and vapor deposition technology for semiconductor manufacturing. In 1998, Dr. Maydan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He serves on the Board of Directors of Drexler Technology and Advisory Board of Komatsu Electronics. Dr. Maydan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Edinburgh University in Scotland. | 