Company: IPGP
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001111928-25-000023
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Company: IPG PHOTONICS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 10
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0. He was previously a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts and Vermont from July 1985 to June 2013 and from December 1993 to July 1999, respectively. Mr. Beecher holds a B.S. from the University of Hartford and an M.S. in accounting from Northeastern University.

Mr. Beecher’s extensive financial background, including his previous experience as an audit partner at a public accounting firm and his role as Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded technology company, as well as his prior service as an outside director to public companies, provides valuable insights for our Board, the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee ("NCGC"). Mr. Beecher is familiar with a large range of management, corporate and board responsibilities and brings valuable perspectives to the Board as an independent director.

MICHAEL CHILD.  Mr. Child has served as a member of IPG's Board since September 2000. Mr. Child has been employed by TA Associates, Inc., a private equity investment firm, since July 1982, where he currently serves as Senior Advisor and, prior to January 2011, was a Managing Director. Mr. Child served on the boards of Finisar Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of optical subsystems and components for networks, Eagle Test Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, and Ultratech Inc., a developer and manufacturer of advanced packaging lithography systems and laser processing technologies. Mr. Child holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. From September 2011 until December 2015, Mr. Child was a Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Child is an established and experienced investor, including in technology companies, from his three decades of experience at TA Associates, Inc. Over the course of his career, he has overseen numerous investments and sales of portfolio companies, and served on the boards of many public and private companies. Through his experiences, he has gained valuable knowledge in the management, operations and finance of technology growth companies.

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JEANMARIE DESMOND. Ms. Desmond has served as a member of IPG's Board since 2021. Ms. Desmond was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DuPont de Nemours, Inc., a global multi-industry specialty solutions company (“DuPont”), from April 2019 to February 2020