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Mr. Lin joined AXT in July 2005. From 1998 to June 2005, Mr. Lin was at Wafer Works Inc./Helitek Company Ltd., where he held executive level positions in operations and sales and marketing and was responsible for starting up the company's Taiwan operation and ramping up manufacturing and sales to mass production levels. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Lin was director of facilities and quality assurance at MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. In this position, Mr. Lin was involved in designing, constructing and commencing the company's Taiwan facilities on time and within budget. He set up a new quality team through local hiring and intensive training and established a total quality management system. Since 1973, Lin held other senior level operations, quality and engineering positions with MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., National Semiconductor Corporation (Malaysia) and Nippon Electric Company. Mr. Lin received his undergraduate and masters degrees in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo. | 