CVD Equipment Corporation announced it had appointed Dr. Ashraf Lotfi to its Board of Directors. The Board of Directors also approved an expansion of the number of directors from the current level of five to six. Dr. Lotfi is currently a venture partner with Deep Sciences Ventures and serves on the board of Lotus Microsystems, ApS.

Dr. Lotfi previously served as Vice President and a Fellow at Intel Corporation. Prior to Intel, he was Power Chief Technology Officer for Altera Corporation serving its Enpirion Power Business as well as the broader Field Programmable Gate Array community. Altera was acquired by Intel in 2015.

Prior to Altera, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Enpirion Inc., which he founded in 2002. From Enpirion?s inception, Dr. Lotfi led its strategic direction with a unique industry-first vision to create the ultimate power converter-on-chip creating ubiquitous DC-DC conversion at the silicon level. In 2013, he led Enpirion?s merger into Altera to realize his vision of highly integrated power management closely coupled to digital silicon loads.

Prior to founding Enpirion, he was Director of Advanced Power Research at Bell Laboratories.