BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NEXX Systems, Inc. has announced that industry veteran Oliver Hung has been promoted to Regional President of Greater China and Southeast Asia. In his new role Hung will be responsible for all NEXX business in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, China and the Philippines.

Hung joined NEXX Systems as the General Manager of Taiwan in August 2008. Since 2008, Hung has built a strong team and successful business in Taiwan for NEXX. Hung’s next step is to replicate this success in the emerging Asian markets and help strengthen the NEXX Systems name as a well known advanced packaging equipment leader.

Tom Walsh, President and CEO stated, “NEXX is on the way to becoming a truly global company and we are excited to have Oliver accelerate this process for our Asian customer base.” Vice President of Worldwide Sales, John Bowers, added, “Oliver’s drive, passion and enthusiasm for growing our business has set a high standard for NEXX Systems in Asia.”

Prior to joining NEXX, Hung held management positions at both Applied Materials (AMAT) and Novellus. He also has former experience working as President of the China Region, a position which he held at Marketech International Corporation (MIC) for five years before joining NEXX Systems.

Hung received his Master of Science degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in Material Science.

NEXX Systems brings exceptional technical expertise to flip chip and advanced packaging. The two product lines provide the most efficient, yet affordable, systems of their kind: Stratus for high throughput electrochemical deposition of metals and Apollo for multi—layer physical vapor deposition of metals. Additional information can be found at www.nexxsystems.com.

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