Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH
COMPANY
Address
Heidelberg Instruments GmbH
Tullastrasse 2
D-69126 Heidelberg
Germany
Phone: (+49) 6221 34 30 0
Fax: (+49) 6221 34 30 30
Mail: 
Web: www.himt.de
Biography
Dr.
Roel Wijnaendts
Founder and Chairman of Board
After graduation from Utrecht Electrical Engineering College and two years in the Dutch Air Force, Dr Roelof Wijnaendts worked at the FOM Institute for Atomic Physics in Amsterdam. In 1969 his young family moved to the US where he accepted a position as an electronics engineer in the chemistry department of Syracuse University. At the same time he enrolled in the graduate school for electrical engineering. He specialized in quantum electronics and received his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1973. His Masters Thesis described the theory, the development and application of a photon correlation, laser light scattering apparatus. In the same year he enrolled in the doctorate program at the FOM Institute for Atomic Physics, where he received in 1977 (Cum Laude) a PhD in physics from the University of Amsterdam. His Doctorate Thesis elaborates on the small angle scattering of alkali ions and alkali atoms. After two years as an assistant to Prof. J. Los he joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) as a group leader. The focus was on the development of optical methods in molecular biology. The group developed new methods on the measurement of rotation diffusion of large molecules by means of pico-second fluorescence depolarization. His group has also developed and applied confocal fluorescence microscopy. Making it possible, to view a complete 3 Dimensional image of a living cell, for the first time. His intensive association with the University of Heidelberg resulted in his participation of the founding of Heidelberg Instruments in 1984. From 1985 until 1990 he was the VP R&D during the development of industrial confocal microscopes (which have been carried on since by LEICA) and laser lithography and inspection methods. Since 1990 he has been president of Heidelberg Instruments and now serves as a chairman of the board since 2005. He is author or co-author on over 100 academic publications and inventor or co-inventor on more than 10 patents.
Mr.
Michael Fangerau
President and CEO
Mr. Michael Fangerau is the CEO of Heidelberg Instruments since 2005 and one of its first employees.
He received his degree in Electronic Engineering from the Fachhochschule in Mannheim, Germany. Upon graduation, he joined Heidelberg Instruments shortly after its foundation in 1985. During the first few years he was assigned various projects dealing with special high frequency electronics for automatic inspection technologies. In 1988, he was promoted to manage the Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy product line.
After Heidelberg Instruments went through a restructuring in 1991, he assumed various responsibilities within the software, application and service groups, including spearheading critical software development enabling data preparation for the lithography systems. In 1994, as the company faced significant growth, he was promoted to manage and stream line the application and production departments.
In 2001, Mr. Fangerau became President of Heidelberg Instruments and assumed the day to day company operation from Dr. Wijnaendts. In 2005 he was named the CEO of Heidelberg Instruments.
Mr.
Martin Wynaendts
President and CFO
Mr. Martin Wijnaendts has been the CFO and President of Heidelberg
Instruments since January 2005. In 1999 he became the CEO of the subsidiary
“Heidelberg Instruments System-Entwicklungs-GmbH” a company
specializing in customized electronic production solutions, which
was merged with Heidelberg Instruments in 2006. Prior to that, he
worked as a product manger for hotel software solutions worldwide
and was a regional sales manger in Eastern Germany for a large hotel
chain. In this chain he started as management trainee before becoming
a manager in several departments and hotels in Germany.
Mr. Wijnaendts holds a degree in Business and Finance.
Mr.
Alexander Forozan
Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development
Mr. Alexander Forozan has been the Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development since 2004. He is responsible for Heidelberg Instruments’ global revenue generation, as well as overseeing the day to day operations of the company’s international sales and marketing force. He joined Heidelberg Instruments in February 2001, serving as Manager of Marketing and Technical Sales in North America. In this capacity, he grew the North American market segment from a limited presence into a multi-million dollar enterprise instantly recognizable at many of the finest research institutions.
He began his career at Intel Corporation where he worked in Rio Rancho Fabrication site as a process engineer before joining the Assembly Technology Development in Chandler, Arizona, contributing to the chipset packaging for Mobil Computers. After Intel, he joined Mattel Corporation in El Segundo, California, where he was a lead Corporate Product Engineer working on interactive and high tech toy products (a joint venture between Intel and Mattel corporations). At Mattel Corp. he was active in several international projects ranging from management and coordination of United States operations with those of production in China to qualification of licensing in Latin America. Mr. Forozan holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University and an M.S. in Engineering from New Mexico State University. He is an American Citizen.
Mr.
Roland Kaplan
Vice President, Research and Development
Mr. Roland Kaplan received his Diploma in Physics from Heidelberg University in 1984. During his studies, he developed software to analyze emissions of nuclear power plants through a project financed by the German Government. Later, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, he took part in the software-supported analysis of fluorescent spectrums. For his Diploma thesis - also at the EMBL - he worked on the upgrade of a Confocal Laser Microscope to a 3D raster scanning microscope.
After his studies in 1985, he joined Heidelberg Instruments as a software developer for real time image processing applications and by 1990 he was in charge of the Software Department.
With the installation of the first direct write laser lithography systems for wafer fabrication in 1992, he took over various functions in the application group. Later, he was a key player in development of the first UV based large area exposure system, introduced in 1997.
Since 2002 he has been leading the Research and Development group at Heidelberg Instruments, responsible for various innovations and technology implementations.
Mr. Kaplan has co authored a number of patents in the field of maskless lithography.
Mr.
Konrad Roessler
Vice President, Global Customer Support and Application Center
Mr. Konrad Roessler has been in charge of the Global Customer Support and Customer Application Center at Heidelberg Instruments since 2005. He graduated from Heidelberg University with a Diploma in Physics in 1993. After a short period at Leica Lasertechnik, he joined Heidelberg Instruments in 1994. There, he worked partly for R&D and customer applications, experienced the development and success of the first MW 800 lithography systems, especially in Asia. He was a key contributor in start up and management of Customer Support offices in Taiwan (1997-1999), China (1999) and Japan (2002-2004). During this period he learned the requirements and needs of Heidelberg Instruments’ equipments in production companies.