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ELECTRONIC DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS | VOLUME 18 NO. 2
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BOARD CANDIDATE PROFILES
PROFILES OF CANDIDATES FOR THE
EDFAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jeremy Walraven, Chair, EDFAS Nominating Committee
Nicholas Antoniou (incum-
bent) received his B.S. and M.S.
degrees in electrical engineer-
ing from Texas A&M University.
He spent his early career in the
design, test, debug, and manu-
facture of microprocessors at
Motorola and Ross Technology.
Nicholas joined FEI Company as
FIB Product Manager and later was Director of Marketing.
In 2009, he was Principal FIB Engineer at the Center for
Nanoscale Systems at Harvard University. In 2014, he
became Product Manager at ReVera (maker of metrology
equipment for semiconductormanufacturing). He owns a
private concern that develops intellectual property, with
one patent issued and more pending. He was published
in Science in April 2013 and has contributed to EDFA
magazine and the Microelectronics Failure Analysis Desk
Reference, 5th edition.
Nicholas has held various positions on the ISTFA
Organizing Committee, including General Chair (2009). In
addition to ASM International and EDFAS, he is an active
member of the Microscopy Society of America and IEEE.
VISION STATEMENT
“As a Board member of EDFAS for the last four years,
I appreciate the challenges we face and better under-
stand how to address them. I wish to serve this Society
for another term so I can focus on ensuring the Society
continues to be of great value to its members. I share the
current Board’s emphasis on education and believe we
can improve in this area, but I alsowant to provide insight
into the direction and compositionof the electronic device
FA market.
Our industry is maturing and, as a result, there is a lot
of consolidation. A related trend is to outsourcemanufac-
turing, whichhas created gaps inwhere andhowFAwill be
handled. Gaps need to be filled, providing a challenge and
an opportunity. I want to identify these gaps and provide
ideas on bridging them. The fablessmodel is pervasive, as
foundry capacity is nowaccessible tomany companies. In
this model, who owns FA? What about intellectual prop-
erty concerns? Is the value of FA realized upfront or only
in an emergency? These are some of the questions that,
as a Society, we can help answer. I would like to provide
The EDFAS Board of Directors (BOD) elections for 2016 are coming up this summer. Nominations closed on March
4, and we have five excellent candidates for the two open positions for the 2016-2020 term. Four new candidates
accepted nominations, and one incumbent accepted a nomination for re-election. Each candidate’s photo, bio-
graphical statement, and vision for EDFAS are provided below. The candidates for the 2016-2020 term are:
• Nicholas Antoniou (incumbent)
• Becky Holdford
• Peter Jacob
• Ted Lundquist
• Ryan Ross
As stated in the EDFAS Charter and BOD Operating Procedures, the election will take place in June 2016 and will be
conducted by electronic balloting. New BODmembers will assume their duties on September 1, 2016, and serve through
August 31, 2020. This is one of your opportunities to influence the direction of EDFAS, so please take this opportunity to
vote and be an active participant in EDFAS.
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