Management Team

John J. Ehren

Sr. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and General Manager of SYMETIX Business Unit
Mr. Ehren has been Sr. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and General Manager of SYMETIX Business Unit since 2009.  During 2008, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  From 2004 to 2008, he served as Vice President of Global Operations of Planar Systems, Inc., a public company that provides flat panel display and system solutions for medical, transportation, industrial and retail applications.  From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Ehren held several senior-level financial officer positions with Planar, including Corporate Controller, Treasurer, and Worldwide Functional Controller.  Between 1990 and 1997, he held Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance and Operations positions with two privately-held manufacturing companies.  Mr. Ehren was employed by Ernst and Young, a public accounting firm, from 1985 to 1990, working primarily with manufacturing and software development clients.

Richard J. Hebel

Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Hebel was appointed Chief Technology Officer of the Company in 2007.  From 2005 to 2007, he served as General Manager of SYMETIX®, directing the start-up of the Company’s pharmaceutical business.  He served as Director of Marketing and Business Development of the Company from 2003 to 2005.  Between 2000 and 2003, Mr. Hebel served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Insight Controls, a manufacturer of machine vision inspection systems for packaging and pharmaceutical companies.  Mr. Hebel was originally employed by Key Technology, Inc. in 1993, serving as Vice President of Marketing from 1993 to 1996, and as Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Business Development from 1996 to 2000.

Dennis T. Hopwood

Vice President, Human Resources
Mr. Hopwood joined the Company in 2007 as Director of Human Resources and, in 2008, was appointed Vice President of Human Resources.  From 2003 to 2006, he served as Vice President of Human Resources for Standard Insurance Co., a publicly-traded diversified financial services organization. Mr. Hopwood served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Credence Systems Corp., a manufacturer of automatic test equipment for the global semiconductor industry, from 2000 to 2001.  Previously, he was with PSC, Inc. (previously Spectra-Physics Scanning Solutions, Inc.), a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of bar code scanning and automatic data collection solutions, serving as Corporate Vice President of Human Resources from1997 to 2000, and as Vice President of Human Resources from 1985 to 1997.

James D. Ruff

Vice President, Research and Development
Mr. Ruff was appointed in 2007 as Vice President of Research and Development of the Company.  From 2004 to 2007, he served as Managing Director of Key Technology B.V., a subsidiary of the Company located in Beusichem, the Netherlands.  Mr. Ruff served the Company as Engineering Manager from 2002 to 2004, and as Project Engineering Manager for Specialized Conveying Systems from 1999 to 2002.  Between 1996 and 1999, Mr. Ruff completed a special assignment in the Netherlands as Engineering Manager of Key Technology B.V.  From 1993 to 1996, he served as Project Engineering Manager of the Company.

Randall L. Unterseher

Senior Director, Marketing
Mr. Unterseher was appointed Senior Director, Marketing of the Company in April 2009.  From 2004 to 2009, he served as Director of Sales Operations, managing the Company’s global sales operations.  Mr. Unterseher served as Sales Engineering Manager from 2001 to 2004, with responsibility for commercial and technical sales support of all product lines.  From 1996 to 2001, he served as Product Marketing Manager of the Company’s Process Systems Division, and from 1991 to 1996 he served in the combined role of Sales Engineer and Product Manager.  Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Unterseher worked for Western Fab and Finish, Inc., a speciality stainless steel fabricator and manufacturer serving the transportation, medical and dental equipment, semiconductor, and food processing equipment industries.  He holds a Masters of Business Administration degree in eBusiness from the University of Phoenix.

Edward A. Wagner

Sr. Vice President, Global Operations
Mr. Wagner joined the Company in August 2008 as Senior Vice President of Global Operations.  From 2006 to 2008, he served in a full-time consultancy capacity as an operations specialist for Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems for the manufacture of solar cells and semiconductors.  Mr. Wagner served as Vice President and General Manager of the Slider Division of Veeco Instruments, a provider of metrology and process equipment for manufacturers of data storage, semiconductor, wireless, lighting and solar industries, from 2004 to 2005.  During 2004, he served as Intel World Wide Account Director for MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., a global manufacturer of silicon wafers and related products for the semiconductor and solar industries.  Mr. Wagner served during 2003 as President and Chief Executive Officer of Intrabay Automation, a provider of automated material handling systems and software.  Between 2001 and 2003, he was employed by Credence Systems, a provider of automated test equipment to manufacturers of semiconductors,  serving as Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations in 2002 and Senior Vice President and General Manager of the CMS product line division from 2001 to 2002.