KLA Corporation (KLAC)

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KLA Corporation

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

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Full Time Employees: 10,600

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. Richard P. Wallace	Pres, CEO & Exec. Director	4.53M	N/A	1960
Mr. Bren D. Higgins	Exec. VP & CFO	1.77M	N/A	1970
Mr. Ahmad A. Khan	Pres of Semiconductor Process Control	1.8M	N/A	1974
Mr. Brian W. Lorig	Exec. VP and GM of Global Support & Services	953.34k	N/A	1974
Mr. Oreste Donzella	Exec. VP - Electronics, Packaging & Components	984.39k	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., CFA	VP of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. MaryBeth Wilkinson	Exec. VP, Chief Legal Officer & Corp. Sec.	N/A	N/A	N/A
Becky Howland Ph.D.	Sr. Director of Corp. Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2020 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 and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries worldwide. The company offers chip and wafer manufacturing products, including defect inspection and review systems, metrology solutions, in situ process monitoring products, computational lithography software, and data analytics systems for chip manufacturers to manage yield throughout the semiconductor fabrication process. It also provides reticle manufacturing products, such as reticle inspection, metrology, and data analytics systems for mask shops; and packaging manufacturing products comprising packaging process control on wafer, automated optical inspection, data analytics, and packaging process control after singulation. In addition, the company offers compound semiconductor, power device, light emitting diode, and microelectromechanical system manufacturing products; data storage media/head manufacturing products; general purpose/lab applications; and previous-generation KLA systems. Further, it provides wafer processing solutions; printed circuit boards, and display and inspection components; products for the deposition of thin film coating of materials on crystalline silicon photovoltaic wafers; and other services. The company offers its products and services for use by various bare wafer, integrated circuit, reticle, and hard disk drive manufacturers. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Corporate Governance

KLA Corporation’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of November 1, 2019 is 8. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 5; Shareholder Rights: 6; Compensation: 9.

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.