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Overview - Company History - Management
Overview
Berkeley Process Control, Inc., a Moog company, is a leading innovator and provider of flexible automation solutions. In its 25 year history, the company's technological innovations have helped revolutionize production in such diverse high-growth industries as telecommunications/optical fiber, semiconductor equipment, and industrial automation. The company's innovative motion and machine controllers have enabled faster, better, and cheaper control of a wide range of devices and machines. They have delivered improved time-to-market, productivity, and reliability to original equipment manufacturers. And now, Berkeley Process Control has developed and patented a disruptive innovation that profoundly simplifies, among many things, the building of machines--it is Soft-I/O® technology.
A significant amount of the world's optical fiber is produced on machines manufactured by Berkeley. The company produces leading edge equipment for many of the optical fiber manufacturing steps, including controls for preform production, draw tower controls and associated hardware and the manufacture of machines for fiber proof testing, rewinding, and coloring. Berkeley is the largest supplier of optical fiber and cable production equipment to one of the world's largest fiber optics manufacturing operations, and the world's largest combined fiber and fiber cable plant.
Berkeley's ability to master the complex challenges of semiconductor wafer handling has earned the business of some of the world's largest semiconductor equipment manufacturing companies. Berkeley controls are in all major semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the world today. The company's patented Autocalibration® technology improves precious semiconductor fab equipment productivity by fully automating critical tasks conventionally performed by technicians using time-consuming and subjective manual methods. What took hours, takes minutes. Subjectivity is eliminated. Reliability is improved. Autocalibration technology is in use in demanding tool applications in some of today's most advanced semiconductor fabs.
Company History
Berkeley was founded in 1981 by Paul Sagues and Professor David Auslander to provide engineering consulting services to companies applying microprocessor technology to real-time control of mechanical systems.
Early in its growth, Berkeley began an aggressive R&D program, which led to the development of its first product, the Bam® 8 Servo Motor Controller in 1985. This product provided both control and tightly coupled coordination for up to eight axes of motion.
Following the introduction of the Bam-8 Servo Controller, Berkeley focused its R&D efforts exclusively on its servo and machine control technology and control systems utilizing the Bam controller. This endeavor led to the introduction of the first truly integrated 32-bit machine controller in 1987 and the first 64-bit RISC platform, the Bam Series-64 Machine Controller in 1993. Berkeley followed these systems with additional product introductions, including expandable I/O, Touch-Screen Operator Interfaces and Universal Servo Amplifiers.
Building upon the success and experience it gained from developing these innovative products, Berkeley introduced in 1999 a new generation of compact, highly-integrated BX-series controllers that continue to revolutionize machine and motion control for the semiconductor industry. The company recently introduced the latest evolutionary enhancement of that product series-the BX-300™; controller. In addition to major evolutionary enhancements to controller performance, the BX-300 is supplied with Berkeley's Semiconductor Toolkit--a uniquely powerful application that dramatically reduces the need for new software code development and substantially simplifies semiconductor tool maintenance.
Management
The Berkeley Process Control management team consists of seasoned professionals who have founded, led, or worked for consumer electronics firms, telecommunication and software companies, and online services over the past 25 years.
James Marshall
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Jim Marshall, a Berkeley Process Control Board member since 2004, joined the company as CEO in 2007. Jim brings more than 35 years of experience in high technology product development and business operations to Berkeley.
Jim was previously CEO of American Integration Technologies, (AIT)-a vertically integrated contract manufacturer serving the high technology semiconductor equipment, medical, consumer and industrial markets. Prior to joining AIT, Jim was President and COO of Vitex Systems-an early stage capital equipment and materials company in the flat panel OLED display industry. Prior to Vitex, Jim was Chairman of the Board, CEO and president of Matrix Integrated Systems, Inc. At Matrix, he raised $9 million in venture capital equity to fund the development of a new product platform. Prior to this, Jim served as executive vice president and COO for Plasma & Materials Technologies, Inc. which he helped take public in 1995. He has also held senior-level positions with Silicon Valley Group, American Semiconductor Equipment Technologies and Applied Materials, among other companies.
Jim holds a bachelor's and master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
Paul Sagues
Founder, Chairman & Chief Technology Officer
After graduating from Stanford University, Paul Sagues joined his family's business-a company manufacturing mechanical and hydraulic seals. He worked in all phases of the business, from production worker to manager. For over a year he managed a three-shift hydraulic seal manufacturing department during which time production increased threefold. He developed more efficient production methods and managed the growth of a workforce of nearly 100 employees.
During his preparation for graduate school, Paul joined the El Dorado Irrigation District, a public utility in Placerville, California where he was in charge of an advanced wastewater treatment facility located fifty miles from the home office in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Working with USDA researchers, he succeeded in bringing on-line the world's most sophisticated treatment system consisting of reverse osmosis and ion exchange. The plant is still operating today.
Paul returned to the Bay Area to attend graduate school at U.C. Berkeley. It was there that he met Professor David Auslander-a cofounder of the Company and currently its senior consultant. During 1980 and 1981, the two collaborated on several consulting jobs and the authorship of the textbook Microprocessors for Measurement and Control (Osborne/McGraw-Hill). In 1981, they founded Berkeley Process Control.
Paul has authored more than a dozen patents in the field of microprocessor-based control systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Stanford University and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
David M. Auslander
Founder & Senior Consultant
Dave Auslander is Professor of the Graduate School, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Berkeley. He has also served as Associate Dean and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering. He has interests in dynamic systems and control. His research and teaching interests include mechatronics and real time software, bioengineering, and mechanical control. Dave is a Registered Professional Engineer. He consults in industrial servo control systems and other control and computer applications. He is co-founder and senior technical consultant to Berkeley Process Control.
Dave's undergraduate studies were at the Cooper Union and his graduate studies were at MIT, both in Mechanical Engineering. He has been awarded the Levy Medal from the Franklin institute (twice), the Education Award of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME, the Education Award of the American Automatic Control Council, the Control Practice Award of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME, the Donald P.Eckman Award of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society, and is a Fellow of the ASME. He has a longstanding association with the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME including past service as its chair and as the editor of the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.
Peter Moy
Director of Engineering
Peter Moy, Berkeley Process Control's first employee, returned to the company in 2002 to assume technical leadership and improve the productivity of the engineering team.
Peter has more than 25 years of engineering experience-focused on the design of systems that utilize computers for control purposes, user interface, and software architecture and implementation.
Peter holds a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and a Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, from the University of California at Berkeley.
Lenson Wong
Director of Marketing
Lenson Wong, has gained over 14 years of experience in the industrial automation field while working at Berkeley Process Control. He is currently the Director of Marketing, and is responsible for product marketing, marketing communications and proposal development. He was previously the Director of Applications Engineering, responsible for customer training, service and support. He has also served as Director of Information Systems.
Lenson is a guest lecturer in mechatronics at U.C. Berkeley. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.B.A. from Duke University.
Tom Tischner
Director of Sales & Director
Tom Tischner, is Director of Sales and a member of the Board of Directors. Tom served in the German Army, completed a Journeymanship at Volkswagen, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1989. Shortly thereafter, he and a partner opened an automotive repair shop in San Francisco. In 1999, he sold his share to his partner.
Tom then joined Berkeley Process Control as an Applications Engineer, and subsequently served as a Product Manager before being named Director of Sales.
Tom holds a Bachelor and Masters of Arts in Psychology from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Richard Nervik
Controller & Treasurer
Rich Nervik, Berkeley's Controller and Treasurer, joined the company in 1992. He is charged with maintaining the quality of the company's financial records, and managing financial planning and cash flow for the business.
Rich previously worked as a Staff Accountant at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), and at biotech company Cetus Corporation, holding positions of Senior Financial Accountant and Assistant Controller.
Rich holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Jim Taylor
Director of Manufacturing
Jim Taylor, is Berkeley's Director of Manufacturing. During his career in the U.S. Navy, Jim managed ship movements and taskings for the Commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, and served in various shipboard capacities-including as Captain of a Guided-Missile Frigate.
Upon retirement from the U.S. Navy in 1995, Jim joined Berkeley and served in a variety of operations roles before assuming his current role as Director of Manufacturing in 2005.
Jim holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State Polytechnic University and a Master of Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Mario Lento
Product Specialist
Mario Lento is Berkeley’s Product Specialist and a Sales Engineer. Prior to Berkeley, Mario worked as foundry engineer and supervisor of melt production at Wollaston Alloys, a foundry specializing in high technology castings. With his background in metallurgy, he has developed key expertise in the area of Nuclear Welding for Berkeley’s respected Automated Welding System.
Actively pursuing an interest in auto racing, Mario holds a competition race license and is a driving instructor at NASA Pro Racing and TEAM Racing.
Mario holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Management from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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