Jeffrey M. Krauss
Jeffrey M. Krauss has served as a director of Tegal since June 1992. Since April 2000, Mr. Krauss has been a Managing Member of Psilos Group Managers, LLC, a New York based venture capital firm, and a Managing Member of the general partner of Psilos Group Partners I, LP, Psilos Group Partners II, LP, Psilos Group Partners II-S, LP and Psilos III, each a venture capital partnership. From 1990 until April 2000, Mr. Krauss was a general partner of the general partner of Nazem & Company III, L.P. and Nazem & Company IV, L.P., both venture capital funds. He was also a general partner of the general partner of The Transatlantic Fund, a joint venture capital fund between Nazem & Company and Banque Nationale de Paris of France. Prior to joining Nazem & Company, Mr. Krauss was a corporate attorney with the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he specialized in leveraged buyout transactions. He currently serves as a director of several private companies.
Carl Muscari
Carl Muscari has served as a director of Tegal since November 2007. Mr. Muscari is currently the Chief Executive Officer of MSRC Co., a leading independent distributor of computer and electronics components based in Brentwood, New Hampshire. During his four-year tenure at MSRC, Mr. Muscari has been credited with the turn-around and modernization of this privately held company. From 1999 until 2003, Mr. Muscari served as Chairman and CEO of Video Network Communications, Inc., based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Prior to VNCI, Mr. Muscari was President of Acuity Imaging, Inc., a machine vision company, and President & CEO of Exos, Inc. a private company with force-feedback controls technology incorporated into home video, arcades and PCs, which was sold to Microsoft in 1996. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Madison Cable Corp., a high volume manufacturer of electronic cable for the computer industry, and the Vice President and General Manager of the Seals Division of Ferrofluidics Corp., a major supplier to the semiconductor, disk drive and aerospace industries. Mr. Muscari began his career at Westinghouse Corporation, where he was a thermal-hydraulic engineer and a production manager for Sun Chemical Corporation. Mr. Muscari holds a BS Mechanical Engineering degree from Cornell University, an MS Engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
Gilbert A. Bellini
Gilbert A. Bellini originally joined the board of directors of Tegal in September 2008 as a representative for Alcatel Micro Machining. He resigned his board membership in December 2010 after the transfer of the Tegal shares from Alcatel Micro Machining and was reappointed to Tegal’s board of directors as an independent director in January 2011. Mr. Bellini has held the position of Director of the Global Logistics of Adixen Vacuum Products since December 2010. During the time period March 2006 to March 2010, he held the position of President of Alcatel Micro Machining Systems. Mr. Bellini holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics from the University of Grenoble in France, and followed several internal International Business Education Trainings in Alcatel.
