KLA Corporation (KLAC)

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KLA Corporation

One Technology Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035
United States
408 875 3000
https://www.kla.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Full Time Employees: 15,000

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. Richard P. Wallace	Pres, CEO & Exec. Director	5.27M	N/A	1960
Mr. Bren D. Higgins	Exec. VP & CFO	2.17M	N/A	1970
Ms. Mary Beth Wilkinson	Exec. VP, Chief Legal Officer & Corp. Sec.	1.38M	N/A	1973
Mr. Ahmad A. Khan	Pres of Semiconductor Process Control	2.31M	N/A	1974
Mr. Oreste Donzella	Exec. VP of Electronics, Packaging & Components	1.96M	N/A	1966
Mr. Virendra A. Kirloskar	Sr. VP & Chief Accounting Officer	N/A	N/A	1963
Dr. Ben Bin-Ming Tsai	CTO & Exec. VP of Corp. Alliances	N/A	N/A	1959
Mr. Kevin M. Kessel C.F.A.	VP of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Randi Polanich	VP & Chief Communications Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. John Van Camp	Exec. VP & Chief HR Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2022 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

KLA Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB, Display and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems that are used to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; Wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticle inspection and metrology systems; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Corporate Governance

KLA Corporation’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of September 1, 2023 is 4. The pillar scores are Audit: 7; Board: 2; Shareholder Rights: 5; Compensation: 3.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while a 10 indicates higher governance risk.