Robert Calderoni
Board Chair
Robert Calderoni most recently served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and interim Chief Executive Officer and President at Citrix Systems, Inc. before its acquisition. Prior to that role, Mr. Calderoni served as President of SAP AG’s cloud business after they acquired Ariba, Inc., where he had been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Calderoni also held many financial executive positions, including Chief Financial Officer at Avery Dennison Corporation, Senior Vice President Finance at Apple Inc., and Vice President Finance at IBM. Mr. Calderoni serves on the Board of Directors of Ansys, Inc.
Mr. Calderoni provides our board with extensive and relevant leadership, corporate governance and international operations experience, and leads our Audit Committee.
Mr. Calderoni holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Fordham University.
Jeneanne Hanley
Director
Jeneanne Hanley most recently served as Senior Vice President and President of the E-Systems Division at Lear Corporation. At Lear, she previously held the titles of Corporate Vice President, Global Surface Materials; Corporate Vice President, Americas Seating Business Unit; and Vice President, Global Strategy and Business Development. Ms. Hanley serves on the Board of Directors of QuantumScape Corporation.
Ms. Hanley possesses significant operating and leadership skills, as well as extensive experience in electrical distribution systems and electronic modules used in the automotive industry. She offers significant experience pairing business strategy with organizational strategy in a complex global industry.
Ms. Hanley earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and her MBA from the University of Michigan.
Emiko Higashi
Director
Emiko Higashi is a founder of Tohmon Capital Partners, LLC. Ms. Higashi also serves on the Board of Directors of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. and Rambus, Inc., and as senior adviser to several private consulting firms. She spent 15 years in investment banking, beginning at Lehman Brothers, and finally serving as a managing director of Merrill Lynch’s global technology M&A practice. Previously, Ms. Higashi was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in Tokyo, Japan.
Ms. Higashi brings to the board significant leadership, strategic, business development, entrepreneurial, mergers and acquisitions and financial experience relevant to large global technology corporations, as well as a comprehensive understanding of international business matters, particularly in Asia.
Ms. Higashi earned her bachelor’s degree from the International Christian University and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Kevin Kennedy
Director
Kevin Kennedy is non-executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Quanergy Systems, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Kennedy served as President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Avaya Inc., as President and Chief Executive Officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation and as Chief Operating Officer of Openwave Systems, Inc. He previously spent several years at Cisco Systems, Inc. and Bell Laboratories. Mr. Kennedy has served as a Congressional Fellow to the U.S. House of Representatives on Science, Space and Technology, and was appointed to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee by former President Barack Obama. Mr. Kennedy also serves on the Board of Directors of Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Mr. Kennedy possesses great leadership and operational experience in high technology industries. He offers relevant expertise in a broad range of technology matters and a deep understanding of corporate governance matters.
Mr. Kennedy holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University, and a master’s degree and doctorate in engineering from Rutgers University.
Michael R. McMullen
Director
Michael R. McMullen has served as the President, since 2014, and Chief Executive Officer, since 2015 of Agilent Technologies, Inc. In his thirty-year career at Agilent, Mr. McMullen held various leadership positions, including President of Agilent’s Chemical Analysis Group. He began his career as a financial analyst for Hewlett-Packard Company’s Chemical Analysis business, which spun off as Agilent Technologies in 1999.
Mr. McMullen brings to the board more than 30 years of industry experience in growing global teams, building company culture, as well as finance and M&A.
Mr. McMullen holds undergraduate degrees in finance and economics from the University of Delaware, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also holds a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
Gary Moore
Director
Gary Moore most recently served as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ServiceSource International, Inc. before its acquisition. Prior to this role, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Cisco Systems, Inc., where he previously held other leadership positions. Before joining Cisco, Mr. Moore served as Chief Executive Officer of Netigy Corporation, before which he held a number of senior executive positions at Electronic Data Systems, including President and Chief Executive Officer of joint venture Hitachi Data Systems.
Mr. Moore brings to the board extensive leadership experience, as well as expertise in matters relating to international operations in the technology industry. Mr. Moore provides the board and the company with valuable advice and guidance regarding operational and strategic issues faced by global technology companies.
Mr. Moore holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.
Marie Myers
Director
Marie Myers currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE). Prior to joining HPE, she served in the following positions: Chief Financial Officer of HP Inc.; Chief Financial Officer of UiPath; global controller for Hewlett Packard; and various other leadership positions at Hewlett Packard and Compaq over the years.
Ms. Myers brings a wealth of relevant finance experience to the KLA board and Audit Committee as an executive with a track record of driving innovation and global business development.
Ms. Myers earned her bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Queensland and her MBA from the University of St. Thomas.
Victor Peng
Director
Prior to his retirement, Victor Peng served as President, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD”) and was responsible for managing all aspects of strategy, business management, engineering and sales for FPGAs, Adaptive SoCs and embedded processors. Mr. Peng rejoined AMD in 2022 after 14 years at Xilinx, most recently serving as President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Peng has close to 40 years of experience defining and delivering leadership technologies across FPGAs, SoCs, GPUs and high-performance CPUs.
During his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Xilinx, Mr. Peng solidified Xilinx’s leadership as the number 1 provider of FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs and led the development of Xilinx’s strategic growth strategy. Mr. Peng oversaw Xilinx’s transformation from a silicon to platform solutions provider, including the introduction of the industry’s first Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms with the launch of the Versal ACAP family, a new line of Alveo data center accelerator cards, and a unified software suite that simplifies the development of software and accelerated applications on Xilinx products. In his previous role as Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Peng managed Global Sales, Product and Vertical Marketing, Product Development, and Global Operations and Quality. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Products, leading the definition, development, and marketing for the company’s portfolio of products and differentiated technologies.
Prior to joining Xilinx, Mr. Peng worked at AMD as Corporate Vice President of silicon engineering for the Graphics Products Group (GPG) and led the central silicon engineering team supporting graphics, game console products, and CPU chipsets. Prior to that, Mr. Peng held executive and engineering leadership roles at TZero Technologies, MIPS Technologies, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corp.
Mr. Peng holds four U.S. patents. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds a Master’s degree also in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Robert Rango
Director
Robert Rango serves on the Board of Directors of Enevate Corporation, having recently retired from his position as Enevate’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to holding this position, Mr. Rango served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom Corporation’s Mobile and Wireless Group. During his tenure with Broadcom, Mr. Rango held many senior management positions in the company’s Network Infrastructure Business Unit, Mobile and Wireless Group and Wireless Connectivity Group. Mr. Rango also previously held several Vice President and General Manager positions at Lucent Microelectronics and at Agere Systems in its Optical Access, New Business Initiatives and Modern/Multimedia Divisions. Mr. Rango serves on the Board of Directors of Keysight Technologies, Inc. and Microchip Technology, Inc.
Mr. Rango possesses significant operating and leadership skills, including extensive experience in global semiconductor product marketing, development and sales. He also offers a vast understanding of mobile, wireless, semiconductor, optical, software and technology management.
Mr. Rango holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
Rick Wallace
President and Chief Executive Officer
Rick Wallace serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of KLA as well as a member of the company’s Board of Directors. He began as an applications engineer at KLA Instruments in 1988, and has held various general management positions throughout his 30+-year tenure with the company. Earlier in his career, he held positions with Ultratech Stepper and Cypress Semiconductor.
Mr. Wallace also serves on the Board of Directors of Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL). Mr. Wallace previously served on the Board of Directors of Splunk, Proofpoint, and NetApp, as well as the Board of Directors of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International), including as SEMI’s Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Wallace earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and his master’s degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.