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Tom St. Dennis was named general manager of the newly created Silicon Systems Group in June 2007. The Silicon Systems Group encompasses Applied Materials entire portfolio of semiconductor manufacturing systems. Since 2005, St. Dennis served as senior vice president and general manager of Applied’s Etch, Cleans, Front End and Implant Products groups.
From 2003-2005, St. Dennis helped lead Novellus Systems, Inc., serving as executive vice president and a member of the Office of the CEO. From 1999 to 2003, St. Dennis was president and CEO of Wind River Systems, a leader in embedded software.
Before that, he spent 20 years in the semiconductor industry, including a seven-year tenure at Applied Materials. After joining Applied in 1992, he served as president of the PVD Product Business Group until 1997 when he became president of the Planarization and Dielectric Deposition Product Business Group and was responsible for the company's Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) products, Dielectric CVD products and Process Sequence Integration group.
St. Dennis holds a bachelor's degree in physics from UCLA and a master's degree in physics from UCLA. | 