Can someone explain to me the optical equation in this situation? I had not really thought of RDRT as being a big player in anything optical. Is this an extension into the Near Field Recording that is being developed by TeraStor and Quinta?
Also, it would seem to be an important jb since the guy being replaced is sent to Japan to be co-president. I would think this is a pretty important position within RDRT.
Regards,
Mark
Kodak Executive Joins Read-Rite Corporation as VP and General Manager For Opto Magnetic Group
MILPITAS, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Read-Rite Corporation (Nasdaq: RDRT - news) today announced that Dr. Joseph J. Miceli, Jr., has been named vice president and general manager of their Opto Magnetic Group located in San Jose, California. In this position, he succeeds executive vice president and general manager Peter Bischoff, who was recently appointed co-president of Read-Rite SMI in Osaka, Japan.
Dr. Miceli, who joined Read-Rite after spending the past 16 years at Eastman Kodak Corporation in Rochester, New York, has extensive technical and managerial experience in optical recording. He joined Kodak in 1982 as a research scientist and has served in various senior R&D leadership roles in that company's Optical Data Storage Technology development. During his tenure with Kodak, he also served as director of Kodak's Optical Storage Technology Division and general manager of their Optical Storage Products business unit. His most recent role with Kodak was guiding their venture investment, intellectual property licensing and spin-out evaluation as part of Kodak's corporate business development staff.
He received a bachelor's degree in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, and holds a Ph.D. degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.
Read-Rite Corporation is one of the world's leading manufacturers of recording heads, head gimbal assemblies (HGAs) and head stack assemblies (HSAs) for disk drives and magnetoresistive (MR) heads for tape drives. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and has operations in California, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. Read-Rite employs 23,000+ people. The company's home page on the World Wide Web can be reached at www.readrite.com. |
