SICK Extends CEO Contract: People in the News 6/3/25
Rich Sneider, CFO of Kopin Corporation, will retire, according to the company. Kopin has launched a search for Sneider’s replacement. Sneider is expected to continue in his current role until a successor is named.
BROOKFIELD, Conn. — Photronics CEO Frank Lee has stepped down. The photomask technologies company issued the news concurrent with the release of its second quarter earnings. Lee will remain chairman and president of Photronics' PDMC subsidiary in Taiwan and continue to focus on the company's operations in Asia. He will also remain a member of Photronics' board. George Maricostas, appointed executive chairman earlier this year, will assume the role of CEO.
BILTHOVEN, Netherlands — SICK extended the contract of CEO Mats Gökstorp by five years. In addition, Feng Jiao, previously responsible for the company's sales and service portfolio, will step aside from the executive board to focus on a new role supporting the board in the strategic business development of the Chinese market. The company appointed Markus Scaglioso to the executive board. Scaglioso will assume responsibility of the sales and service portfolio.
Mats Gökstorp. Courtesy of SICK.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Optica and the Materials Research Society (MRS) named two recipients for the 2025-2026 Congressional Fellowship Program — Optica’s Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellowship and the MRS/Optica Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship. Damien Bérubé will serve as the Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow, and Swati Narasimhan will serve as the MRS/Optica Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow. Bérubé is a doctoral researcher in chemical physics at Harvard University. Narasimhan is a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. The two will begin their terms as fellows in September. Congressional Fellows serve a one-year term as special legislative assistants for a member of the U.S. Congress or for a congressional committee.
CAMBRIDGE, England — Life sciences tools company, Lightcast, appointed Philip Binns chairman of the board. Binns has decades of experience in scientific instrumentation and leadership, recently serving as president of the life sciences and applied markets group at Agilent Technologies.
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