Coherent’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Andy Mattes, announced significant updates to the company’s senior leadership team. Mark Sobey EVP & Chief Operating Officer, currently oversees both the ILS and OLS business units under his leadership to increase operational best practices sharing and create efficiencies. In addition, Coherent announced the appointment of its first Chief Marketing Officer.
David Gee joins Coherent as SVP and CMO to help drive and support the company’s sales and go-to-market strategy and accelerate its digital transformation. David brings more than two decades of sales and marketing leadership experience in international technology companies. Most recently, he served as CMO at Imperva, as CMO of Zuora, Infoblox, and held senior marketing positions at Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and IBM.
The company is also announcing that Thomas Merk, Executive Vice President, ILS, will begin his retirement transition effective October, 2020. Mr Merk joined the company as part of the acquisition of Rofin-Sinar, Inc., where he had been Chief Executive Officer.
