Expert Team

Our Team of ALD experts is led by Founder, Jill Becker and a highly experienced leadership team including Chief Operating Officer, Ray Ritter, Vice President of Engineering, Roger Coutu and Vice President of Technology, Ganesh Sundaram.

Jill Becker Ph.D – Jill Becker founded Cambridge NanoTech in 2003 and continues to successfully lead the company's technical, sales and operational functions. Dr. Becker holds a B.S. from the University of Ontario and completed her Ph.D in Chemistry at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. Roy Gordon. Dr Becker is a specialist in Inorganic and Metal-organic chemistry, ALD system design, precursor synthesis, and thin film characterization techniques. She has published extensively, and holds numerous patents.


Ray Ritter – Ray is Chief Operating Officer of Cambridge NanoTech. Ray has extensive experience managing and growing technology companies. Prior to joining Cambridge NanoTech, Ray was a founder and the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at BlueShift Technologies in Andover, MA, a venture-backed startup delivering manufacturing automation products to the semiconductor market. Ray was the Principal at Ritter Consulting Group, where he assisted private and publicly-traded corporations in driving product and service revenues through greater brand awareness and targeted sales strategies. Ray has an M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. from Rutgers University.


Ganesh Sundaram – Ganesh is Vice President of Technology for Cambridge NanoTech. Prior to joining Cambridge NanoTech, Dr. Sundaram held positions at Veeco Instruments, Schlumberger Technologies, Micrion Corporation ,and Texas Instruments, ranging from scientific to product management functions. Dr. Sundaram received his Ph.D in Physics from Oxford University, where he specialized in low temperature, high magnetic physics of low dimensional semiconductors. His industrial experience encompasses processing of Si and compound semiconductors, lithography, particle beam technology, metrology, and thin film applications.


Roger Coutu – Roger is Vice President of Engineering for Cambridge NanoTech. Roger has spent the previous six years consulting with companies in the semiconductor, automotive, materials and vacuum-handling industries. He has extensive experience designing substrate handling and advanced vacuum systems. Prior to starting his own company, Roger held numerous engineering management positions at MKS, Eaton, Millipore, Bruce Technology International and other companies. Roger has a B.S. from Lowell University in Mechanical Engineering.