MDC Vacuum Products, LLC Announces New Chief Operating Officer

MDC Vacuum Products, LLC (Hayward, California) announced the appointment of Robert Malley as Chief Operations Officer effective November 17, 2008.

MDC Vacuum Products, LLC (Hayward, California) announced the appointment of Robert Malley as Chief Operations Officer effective November 17, 2008.

Prior to joining MDC, Mr. Malley served as Vice President of Global Materials and Manufacturing at Intevac (Santa Clara, California), where he led the global materials, manufacturing, logistics, and new product operations groups. He also successfully developed and implemented volume manufacturing, materials/supply chain, and logistics operations in Singapore and supervised field logistics operations in five other countries.

Prior to Intevac, Mr. Malley spent 13 years at Applied Materials (Santa Clara, California), where he served in executive and management roles in IT, product operations, materials, pilot manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, and volume manufacturing. He also served as an Engineer Officer in the U.S. Army with roles as professor of mechanical engineering at West Point, Company Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division, and junior officer leadership roles in the 24th Infantry Division. Mr. Malley is a graduate of West Point, and holds a masters of science degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (Palo Alto, California).