{"id":77474,"date":"2007-10-26T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pv-tech.org\/chris_smith_to_direct_oerlikon_solars_sales_and_customer_support\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T09:51:00","slug":"chris_smith_to_direct_oerlikon_solars_sales_and_customer_support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/chris_smith_to_direct_oerlikon_solars_sales_and_customer_support\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Smith to direct Oerlikon Solar\u2019s sales and customer support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"legacy-content-text\">\n\t\tOerlikon Solar&rsquo;s sales efforts are to be led by Chris<br \/>\nSmith, formerly of Applied Materials, who has been named as head of<br \/>\nSales and Customer Support for the thin-film solar equipment<br \/>\nmanufacturer.&nbsp; Smith brings 20 years of management and sales experience<br \/>\nto the role, 12 of which were spent with Applied Materials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smith spent 2001 to 2006 working in vice presidential<br \/>\nroles with Applied&rsquo;s customer accounts, including those of Intel and<br \/>\nMicron. Other roles were as General Manager of the Chemical Mechanical<br \/>\nPolishing Product Business and Managing Director of the Global Business<br \/>\nDevelopment for the Dielectric and Physical Vapor Deposition groups.<\/p>\n<p>Oerlikon Solar is a turnkey thin-film solar equipment manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By S&iacute;le Mc Mahon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oerlikon Solar&rsquo;s sales efforts are to be led by Chris Smith, formerlyof Applied Materials, who has been named as head of Sales and CustomerSupport for the thin&#45;film solar equipment manufacturer.&nbsp; Smith brings20 years of management and sales experience to the role, 12 of whichwere spent with Applied Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"paywall-tags":[],"regions":[],"industry-segments":[10,27],"class_list":["post-77474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","industry-segments-markets-finance","industry-segments-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - 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