Board of Directors
Officers
Chair
Jean-Charles Wirth, Member of the Executive Board, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
CEO, MilliporeSigma
Vice Chair
Catherine Kniker, Executive Vice President; Chief Marketing & Sustainability Officer, PTC
President
Christopher R. Anderson, President, Massachusetts High Technology Council
Treasurer
William Ribaudo, Retired Partner, Deloitte
Secretary
Michael J. Kendall, Partner; Co-Chair, Global M&A, Goodwin Procter LLP
Board of Directors
Pedro Arce, Senior Vice President; Head of Innovation Banking & Social Ventures, M&T Bank
Janene Asgeirsson, Senior Vice President; Chief Legal Officer, Chief Risk Officer, & Corporate Secretary, Analog Devices, Inc.
Raymond Bigelow, Partner; New England Technology Industry Leader, Deloitte
John Capone, Boston Hub Office Managing Partner, KPMG
John Chartier, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Julie Chen, Ph.D., Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
E. LaBrent Chrite, Ph.D., President, Bentley University
David Foss, Northeast Market Managing Partner, PwC
Patrick Freytag*, Chairman, Creation Technologies
Michael J. Kendall, Partner; Co-Chair, Global M&A, Goodwin Procter LLP
Catherine Kniker*, Executive Vice President; Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, PTC
Grace H. Lee, Esq.*, President & Chief Executive Officer, St. Mary Credit Union
John T.C. Lee, Ph.D.*, President & Chief Executive Officer, MKS, Inc.
Russell Low, Ph.D., President & Chief Executive Officer, Axcelis Technologies
Puneet Mahajan*, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Suffolk Construction
Valery Panier, Ph.D.*, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Michael P. Plisinski*, Chief Executive Officer, Onto Innovation, Inc.
Adam Portnoy, President & Chief Executive Officer, The RMR Group
Robert L. Reynolds*, Chair, Great-West Lifeco U.S. LLC
William Ribaudo, Retired Partner, Deloitte
Douglas Robbins, Vice President, Engineering & Prototyping, The MITRE Corporation
Daniel P. Shine, Senior Vice President; President, Analytical Instruments Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Navjot Singh, Ph.D.*, Founder, 2123iX
Jane Steinmetz*, Managing Principal, Boston Office, Ernst & Young LLP
Corey Thomas*, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Rapid7, Inc.
Grace Wang, Ph.D.*, President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jean-Charles Wirth*, Chief Executive Officer, MilliporeSigma; Executive Board Member, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
*Executive Committee
Prior to joining MKS, Dr. Lee served as the Managing Director of Factory Technology and Projects within the Solar Business Group at Applied Materials, Inc., from February 2007 until October 2007. From 2002 until 2007, he served as General Manager of the Cleans Product Group and the Maydan Technology Center for Applied Materials. Prior to Applied Materials, Dr. Lee served from 1997 until 2002 as Research Director of the Silicon Fabrication Research Department at Lucent Technologies, Inc., a voice, data, and video communications provider. From 1991 until 1997, he was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Plasma Processing Research Group within Bell Labs.
He currently serves on the MKS Board of Directors (since 2020) and as Vice Chair and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts High Technology Council (since 2021). Dr. Lee was appointed a Director of Cognex, a leader in machine vision systems, software, and sensors on May 4, 2022, and serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees. Dr. Lee holds a BS from Princeton University and both an MSCEP and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Chemical Engineering.