0001140361-12-040400.txt : 20120914 0001140361-12-040400.hdr.sgml : 20120914 20120914105618 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001140361-12-040400 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120911 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20120914 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120914 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TEGAL CORP /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000931059 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SPECIAL INDUSTRY MACHINERY, NEC [3559] IRS NUMBER: 680370244 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0331 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-35141 FILM NUMBER: 121091665 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 44 MONTGOMERY STREET, SUITE 800 CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94104-4811 BUSINESS PHONE: (415) 248-5350 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 44 MONTGOMERY STREET, SUITE 800 CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94104-4811 8-K 1 form8k.htm TEGAL CORP 8-K 9-11-2012 form8k.htm
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): September 11, 2012
 
 
Tegal Corporation
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
000-26824
(Commission
File Number)
68-0370244
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94104-4811
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(415) 248-5350
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
 
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Item 5.02.
Appointment of Certain Officers.
 
On September 11, 2012, Thomas R. Mika, the current President, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Tegal Corporation (“Tegal”),was appointed Tegal’s Acting Chief Financial Officer.  Mr. Mika, age 61, was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Tegal in 2005 and Chairman of the Board the following year.  Mr. Mika’s previous service with Tegal was as Chief Financial Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors from 1992 to 2002, during which he managed activities resulting in the company’s 1995 Initial Public Offering and served as Chairman of the Compensation and Governance Committees and a member of the Audit Committee.  Mr. Mika began his association with Tegal in 1990, when he served as consultant to Nazem & Company, a venture firm that acquired the company from Motorola in 1990.  Previously, Mr. Mika founded IMTEC, a boutique investment firm whose areas of focus included health care, pharmaceuticals, media and information technology.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Mika was a managing consultant with Cresap, McCormick & Paget and a policy analyst for the National Science Foundation, where he was a member of the initial three-person team that developed and published the landmark Science Indicators, the biennial report of the National Science Board to the President of the United States.  Mr. Mika holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he was awarded a Harvard University Fellowship.
 
SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
Date: September 14, 2012
TEGAL CORPORATION
   
 
By:
/s/ Thomas R Mika
 
Name
Thomas R. Mika
 
Title
President and Co-Chief Executive Officer