Company: AEHR
Filing Date: 2025-09-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001654954-25-010620
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Company: AEHR TEST SYSTEMS
Filing Date: 2025-09-10
Form: DEF 14A
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. Prior to that, he was the CEO of ELES Semiconductor Equipment S.p.A., a publicly traded Italian manufacturer of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment. Mr. Salamone holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from  Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, an Executive MBA from LUISS Business School of Rome, Italy, an MSc in International HR Management from Cranfield Business School, UK, an MSc in Behavioral Science from London School of Economics, UK, and a Certificate of Management Excellence from Harvard University.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

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| DIDIER WIMMERS joined the Company as Executive Vice President, Research and Development in March 2025. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Wimmers held executive engineering management positions at Schlumberger Automated Test Equipment, a division of Schlumberger Limited, a publicly traded global technology company; NPTest, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor test equipment manufacturer (later acquired by Credence Systems Corporation); Credence Systems Corporation, a publicly traded supplier of automated test equipment (later acquired by Xcerra Corporation); FormFactor, Inc., a publicly traded leading supplier of advanced probe cards for the semiconductor industry; Altera Corporation,  a publicly traded programmable logic device manufacturer (later acquired by Intel Corporation); Thin Film Electronics ASA, a publicly traded provider of end-to-end mobile business solutions; and Advantest America, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Advantest Corporation, a publicly traded global supplier of semiconductor test equipment. He has extensive experience in leading worldwide product development teams in the semiconductor and semiconductor test equipment industries and has built world-class engineering teams that focus on customer needs, innovation, product quality and on-time delivery. Mr. Wimmers received a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from INSA Lyon, France. |

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

General Philosophy

The Company compensates the Company’s executive officers through a combination of base salary, cash bonus and equity compensation designed to be competitive with comparable companies. The Company’s primary objectives of the overall executive compensation program are to attract, retain, motivate and reward Company executive officers while aligning their compensation with the achievements of key business objectives and maximization of shareholder value.

The Company’s compensation programs are designed to:

| 1. | reward executive officers for performance and link executive compensation to the creation of shareholder value through the use of performance and equity-based compensation; |
| 2. | attract, retain and motivate highly qualified executive officers by compensating them at a level that