KLA Corporation (KLAC)

781.67 -5.72 (-0.73%) At close: 04:00PM EDT

KLA Corporation

One Technology Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035
United States
408 875 3000
https://www.kla.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Full-time employees: 15,000

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Richard P. Wallace	President, CEO & Executive Director	3.14M	N/A	1960
Mr. Bren D. Higgins	Executive VP & CFO	1.6M	N/A	1970
Mr. Ahmad A. Khan	President of Semiconductor Process Control, Electronics, Packaging Components, & KLA Instruments	1.6M	N/A	1974
Mr. Brian W. Lorig	Executive Vice President of Global Support & Services	1.12M	N/A	1974
Mr. Oreste Donzella	Executive VP & Chief Strategy Officer	5.86M	N/A	1967
Mr. Virendra A. Kirloskar	Senior VP & Chief Accounting Officer	455.18k	3.04k	1963
Dr. Ben Bin-Ming Tsai	CTO & Executive VP of Corporate Alliances	998.02k	N/A	1959
Mr. Kevin M. Kessel C.F.A.	Vice President of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Mary Beth Wilkinson	Executive VP, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary	1.38M	N/A	1973
Ms. Randi Polanich	Senior VP & Chief Communications Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2024, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems that are used to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticle inspection and metrology systems; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Corporate governance

KLA Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 October 2024 is 4. The pillar scores are Audit: 6; Board: 3; Shareholder rights: 5; Compensation: 5.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.