Ascend NorCal: CEI CEO Dinner: Ned Barnholt  

Ascend/CEI is very pleased to have Ned Barnholt, board chair of KLA-Tencor, as our guest at the CEO Dinner this month. It should be an interesting conversation, especially if we can hear the insider’s view of the pending $10.6 Billion acquisition of KLA-Tencor by Lam Research.

Date: Wednesday, January 20^th
When: 7:00 drinks, 7:30 dinner
Where: Ristorante Bella Vita, 376 1^st St, Los Altos
Price: Free for Ascend/CEI lifetime members, $100 for all others. 
Note: The dinner is limited to 15 people

Ned Barnholt BIO: Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt is currently chairman of the KLA–Tencor Corporation and serves on the board of eBay and Adobe. He is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum and was a member of their board of directors from 1998 to 2004.  Ned was chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Agilent Technologies. He guided Agilent through its spin-off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999 and retired from Agilent in 2005.