Primary Job Title Member of the Board of Directors Primary Organization Advanced Energy Industries
Gender Male
Thomas Rohrs has served as chairman of the board of Ichor Systems since June 2013. Previously, he was the chief executive officer of Skyline Solar, a solar equipment manufacturer, from June 2010 to September 2012. Thomas Rohrs had been an advisor and consultant to a number of companies, both public and private, including renewable energy companies
from February 2009 to June 2010.
From April 2006 to February 2009, Thomas Rohrs served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Electroglas, Inc., a then public supplier of wafer probers and software solutions for the semiconductor industry. In July 2009, Electroglas filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, citing the dramatic decline in semiconductor manufacturing equipment resulting from the global economic recession.
In August 2009, Thomas Rohrs began serving as interim chief executive officer of Electroglas, which subsequently has sold substantially all of its assets. From December 2004 to March 2010, Thomas Rohrs served as a director of Electroglas. From 1997 to 2002, Thomas Rohrs was with Applied Materials, Inc., a semiconductor equipment company, most recently as senior vice president of global operations, and served as a member of Applied’s executive committee.
Thomas Rohrs serves on the board of directors of Foliage Systems, a product development company; Vignani Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an engineering services company; Intevac, Inc., a publicly held leading supplier of magnetic media processing systems; and Ichor Systems, a private technology equipment provider.
Thomas Rohrs served on the board of directors of Magma Design Automation, Inc., a publicly held electronic design automation software and design services company, from July 2003 to March 2012. Thomas Rohrs served on the board of Seque Manufacturing Services, a private manufacturing services company, from 2008 to 2012.
Thomas Rohrs served on the board of directors of Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. from 2003 to 2008 and was a member of its compensation and nominating committees. Thomas Rohrs served as a director of Ion Systems, Inc., a then private electrostatic control company, from 2003 until January 2006 when Ion Systems was sold.
