At the 29th Annual SPIE Photomask Technology Symposium (BACUS 2009), Barry Hopkins, CEO of RAVE LLC, received the Photomask Industry’s most prestigious honor, the SPIE/BACUS Lifetime Achievement Award. Barry was recognized by his worldwide peers for his 49 years of dedication to the mask making industry. Barry began in 1963 and spent his entire career in the mask making sciences including captive and commercial mask business development and advanced mask making equipment technology.
Barry’s award reads:
BACUS Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 presented to:
Mr. Barry F. Hopkins
In Recognition of his Lifetime Contributions to the mask making sciences, mask industry management and growth as well as his vision and unswerving dedication to the timely development and proliferation of critical mask making equipment technologies needed to assure the future of advanced photomask manufacture.
BACUS-The International Technical Group of SPIE dedicated to the advancement of photomask technology
Brian J. Grenon, BACUS President
September 2009, Monterey California
