Coherent Corp. has appointed Jim Anderson CEO. Anderson will also be made a member of its board of directors. Anderson succeeds Vincent “Chuck” Mattera, who announced his retirement as chairman and CEO in February, pending the hiring of a successor. Jim Anderson, CEO of Coherent Corp. Courtesy of Coherent. Anderson joins Coherent from Lattice Semiconductor, where he served as president, CEO, and a member of its board of directors. Prior to Lattice, he was vice president and general manager of Advanced Micro Devices’ Computing and Graphics business group, and has held leadership positions at companies including Intel, Broadcom, and LSI Corporation. Anderson serves on the boards of Entegris, EdgeQ, and Lumotive as well as on the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the MIT Sloan Americas, the Electrical and Computer Engineering advisory board at Purdue University, and the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota.