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James Moniz (pictured), who previously served as chief financial officer at Nextest Systems until it was acquired in February 2008 and then became CFO at Photon Dynamics for six months until it was acquired in October, is now fulfilling that role at Nanometrics. The Milpitas company, which used to bill itself as a maker of process control equipment used by the semiconductor industry, has greened up its description to include customers in the solar energy and light-emitting diode industries as well. No wonder, since the chip industry and the makers of equipment for them are mired in the industy’s Read the rest of this entry »

SunPower, the San Jose maker of electronic devices used in solar power systems, is getting a new chief financial officer, which is one way to announce its losing its current one. Dennis Arriola will begin work next month when he will “work closely with retiring CFO, Manny Hernandez,” the company said in a release today.

Hernandez (pictured), 52,  joined SunPower in 2005, but was previously an executive at Cypress Semiconductor, the company that spun off SunPower into a separate company in November of that year. SunPower chief executive Tom Werner announced Hernandez’s planned retirement in an earnings call with analysts on July 15.  At the end of August, however, Read the rest of this entry »