William W R Elder

William W R Elder is a patron of the Scottish North American Business Council and has been a director of AEHR Test Systems since 1989. Dr. Elder was the Chief Executive Officer of Genus, Inc., a semiconductor company, from his founding of Genus in 1981 to September 1996, and has been serving in that same position again since April 1998. Dr. Elder has been a director of Genus since its inception. Dr. Elder holds a B.S.I.E. and an honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of Paisley in Scotland.

William Elder was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Paisley Technical College in 1968. He joined Fairchild Semiconductor as a manufacturing engineer in January 1970. He served in various senior management positions over the next decade, culminating in a transfer to set up and manage Fairchild's consumer products facility in Hong Kong. In 1979, he joined Kasper Instruments, a division of Eaton Corp., as vice president, operations. Later named division president, he oversaw Kasper's growth to $25M in revenue.