Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:RTEC) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

(d) Election of Director

On July 25, 2018, the Board appointed Vita A. Cassese to the Board effective July 26, 2018. Ms. Cassese, age 69, currently serves as the CEO of Mardon Management Advisors, a technology and analytics advisory firm. Additionally, Ms. Cassese is a senior advisor to Vestar Capital Partners and a member of the Technology Advisory Board of Riverside Partners. With over 30 years of experience in operating and strategic management roles at Pfizer, Ms. Cassese’s last held position was chief information officer of Pfizer’s Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Group. Ms. Cassese has been a guest lecturer at New York University's Stern School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Business, and Boston University. She currently serves as a mentor for the Masters in Technology program at Columbia University. Ms. Cassese will serve as a Class II director and a member of the Board’s audit and compensation committees. The Board has determined that Ms. Cassese satisfies the definition of “independent director” under the NYSE listing standards.

About Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:RTEC)

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (Rudolph) is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and support of defect inspection, packaging lithography, thin film metrology, and data analysis systems and software used by microelectronics device manufacturers. The Company operates in a segment of the design, development, manufacture and support of process control defect inspection and metrology; packaging lithography, and data analysis systems and software used by microelectronics device manufacturers. It offers Process Control Business, Lithography Business and Integrated Software Solutions. It provides process and yield management solutions used in both wafer processing and final manufacturing through a family of systems for macro-defect inspection, lithography, probe card test and analysis, and transparent and opaque thin film measurements. Rudolph markets and sells products to logic, memory, data storage, flat panel and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) device manufacturers.