Dr. David Knowles was appointed as TCZ's President & CEO in June 2007 after serving TCZ as VP Marketing & Application since the company's formation in July 2005. Since 1997, Knowles has assumed various senior management responsibilities at Cymer Inc., including VP Marketing of Cymer's Emerging Technology & Applications Business Unit, and VP Engineering. Before joining Cymer, Knowles held research positions with Naval Research & Development, and Maquarie University in Sidney, Australia. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University, and a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.