The company also established the supervisory board and technical advisory board.

MAPPER Lithography, a developer of maskless lithography machines for the semiconductor industry, has appointed Christopher Hegarty, a 45-year-old native of Australia, as its new CEO. Hegarty was previously employed at Infineon Technologies, one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world. At Infineon, he became responsible for the Microcontroller business unit in 2003. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, where he advised clients based in the United States, Asia and Europe on semiconductor technology. Christopher Hegarty earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He will succeed Boudewijn Baud, who served as MAPPER's CEO for six years.

Christopher Hegarty: “I am delighted to have the opportunity to lead MAPPER into its next phase. I would also like to thank Boudewijn Baud for his commitment to the company and the valuable contributions he has made to MAPPER's development during the first crucial period of its existence”.

In 2007, MAPPER made an important breakthrough in lithography technology by demonstrating that vital wafers used in chip manufacturing could also be imaged using parallel electron beams. This process eliminates the need for expensive masks, which lowers manufacturing costs for chips and significantly reduces the time to market. The technology is based on two innovations: the use of light, which makes it possible to control the electron beams separately, and the use of MEMS lens arrays to focus the parallel electron beams accurately.

In 2008, a supervisory board and a technical advisory board were established at MAPPER. The technical advisory board advises and assists the board of directors and the supervisory board in managing and developing the innovative lithography machines.