Our Team
S. Mark Borowicz
CEO
Mark previously served as Executive Vice President at Nanometrics from March 2013 to March 2018. Prior to Nanometrics, Dr. Borowicz held various management positions in Marketing, Engineering, Business Development and R&D at KLA-Tencor Inc. from 2000 to 2013. Dr. Borowicz also has seven patents in the field of electron beam technologies.
Dr. Borowicz holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Auburn University.
Scott Murcray
CFO
Previously, Scott was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at AirXpanders, Inc, a publicly traded medical device company, where he oversaw manufacturing, quality, customer service, HR, finance and accounting. Prior to AirXpanders, he served at Nanometrics, a publicly traded semiconductor equipment and services company, as Vice President, Finance, and was responsible for accounting and finance. Prior to that he has held senior financial executive roles at a variety of publicly traded and venture backed companies, including ZOLL Medical Corporation, VNUS Medical Technologies, Atrenta, ePeople and Arthur Andersen LLP.
Scott received a B.S. degree in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and is a certified public accountant in the state of California.
Ardy Sidhwa
VP, Manufacturing
Before joining Pure Wafer, Dr. Sidhwa was the Vice President of Manufacturing and Technology at GV Semiconductor. Dr. Sidhwa has worked as a Senior Director of Innovation and Technology (R&D) at Quantum Global Technologies (QGT). He was a Senior Staff/ Fellow at ATMEL Semiconductor responsible for Process Integration and Manufacturing Operations for state of the art Microcontrollers and Memory products. Dr. Sidhwa was also Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Board Director at Armor Designs, Inc, a publicly-traded Armor company. Before Armor, Dr. Sidhwa worked as a Corporate Process Technology and Quality Director at STMicroelectronics, Inc. He is proficient in technology development for strategic alliances and multiple joint ventures. Dr. Sidhwa has 7 U.S. patents issued and two pending applications in multidisciplinary fields, along with over 100 publications.
Dr. Sidhwa holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Arkansas.
Carol Pabon
General Manager, Noel Technologies
Carol has a wealth of experience working with semiconductor OEMs and IDMs supporting customer application specific requirements in photolithography, mask tooling and wafer fabrication. Prior to Noel Technologies, she held senior sales engineering and management roles at AvanIDe Electronics, X-Fab and Pure Wafer. Carol holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University, Texas.