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Mr. Zapico was elected Chairman of the Board in June 2017 and has been Chief Executive Officer since May 2016. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2013 to May 2016. He was President, Electronic Instruments, from October 2003 to January 2013. He joined AMETEK as a Product Engineer in 1990 and has held a variety of engineering and general management positions. He was promoted to Division Vice President of Process Instruments in 1996 and Vice President and General Manager of AMETEK Aerospace and Power Instruments Division in 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Carnegie Mellon university.

Mr. Mattes has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President as well as a member of the Board since his appointment on April 6, 2020. Prior to joining Coherent and beginning in June 2019, he was a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, a leading global management consulting firm, providing corporate and strategic consulting services to various clients of the firm. From January 2018 to May 2019, he was an independent corporate advisor. From 2013 to December 2017, he was the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated, a retail and financial services technology systems company. He also served as its President from 2013 to August 2016. Mr. Mattes was the Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships at Violin Memory, a computer storage systems company, in 2013. He has also held various senior management positions with Hewlett-Packard Co., a computer technologies company. From 2008 to 2011 he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise Services for the Americas. From 2006 to 2008 he was Hewlett Packard’s Chief Sales Officer for the Enterprise Business. Mr. Mattes spent the first 20 years of his career (between 1985 and 2005) at Siemens, holding a variety of senior leadership positions. These culminated in his role as chief executive officer of Siemens Communications Inc., USA, in Boca Raton, Florida. He received his Diplom-Kaufmann in business administration from Ludwig Maximilan University.

Accomplished Board Member, Advisor, Executive and Corporate StrategistOperating experience includes National Semiconductor, Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, pre and post IPO including their respective $100M to multi billion dollar growth periods. Joined Apple immediately post IPO and provided the vision and leadership for Apple’s manufacturing strategy; recruited by Sun pre IPO to architect their global manufacturing and distribution strategy culminating in Sun’s well-documented public offering.Substantial domestic and international experience spanning private and publicly traded corporations as well as government entities ranging in size from Fortune 500 players to entities with less than $100M in revenue. Background includes growing early-stage technology businesses, transforming and revitalizing mature companies, installing expert management teams, building consensus, and steering companies in rapid-change environments in order to deliver record revenue, ROI and stockholder value. Expertise spans P&L management, engineering, sales and marketing, strategic planning, manufacturing, operations, finance, global logistics, M&A and IPO.