Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Age: 62
No. of Board Meetings attended in FY2024: 4/4
Dr. Michael Dominic Kirk, was appointed to the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director on 14 May 2022. He was subsequently appointed as a member to the Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Company on 24 May 2024.
Dr. Kirk was formerly a Co-founder of Park Scientific Instruments, a scanning probe microscope company, where he served as a Vice President (“VP”) of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer. He spent 9 years in a variety of management, marketing, and technical operations roles leading its business until its acquisition by Thermoelectron in 1997, before moving to KLA Corporation (“KLA”), formerly known as KLA-Tencor, a company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange, as Director of Strategic Marketing for Wafer Inspection Group.
Dr. Kirk held several different senior VP positions at KLA from 1997 to 2020. He was the Senior VP of the Surfscan Division responsible for dramatically growing its revenue and profitability. He was also an Executive VP responsible for the Wafer Inspection Group product development, business performance and strategic planning. In addition to these responsibilities, he also managed KLA’s world-wide manufacturing and operations for all of KLA’s products. During his tenure at KLA, Dr. Kirk managed KLA’s worldwide VP of Strategic Corporate Business Development of KLA managing 5 company acquisitions in 2 years.
Dr. Kirk has extensive understanding of operating in senior business leadership positions in the USA as well as international business, sales and marketing, mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”), product management and innovation experience. During his career with KLA, he has successfully grown numerous new businesses, has strategic experience of operating in large industrial groups across a variety of geographies, developed and ran a global capital equipment business.
Dr. Kirk currently is a business consultant in relation to M&A, business operations and strategic planning. He is also a Board member of SIMCO Electronics in San Jose, California since 2007 and is a volunteer tutor of Physics and Calculus to underserved students in California.
Other than our Company, Dr. Kirk does not hold any other directorship in public companies or public listed companies in Malaysia.
Dr. Michael Dominic Kirk holds degrees in physics and applied mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, California and master’s degree and Ph.D in applied physics from Stanford University, California.