HILLSBORO, Ore., FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Homa Bahrami and Ms. Jami K. Nachtsheim to the board of the company.

Dr. Bahrami is a senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, specializing in organizational design for global knowledge-based companies, and a faculty director at the Haas Center for Executive Education. Dr. Bahrami has been on the Haas School faculty since 1986 and holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Aston University, United Kingdom. She was a member of the Board of Directors of FormFactor, Inc. from 2004 through 2010.

Ms. Nachtsheim is a 20-year veteran of Intel Corporation, where she was corporate vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and director of Worldwide Marketing, among other roles, before retiring in 2000. She is a director of Affymetrix, Inc. and the Tech Museum of Innovation and was a director of Southwall Technologies from 2003 until it was acquired in 2011. She is a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in business management.

“Jami and Homa bring added depth, breadth and diversity to our board,” commented Gerhard Parker, chairman of FEI’s Board of Directors. “FEI has grown rapidly and entered a new stage of development, and we look forward to engaging their experience and knowledge to continue the company’s progress.”

About FEI

FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) is a leading supplier of scientific instruments for nanoscale applications across many industries: materials science, life sciences, semiconductors, data storage, natural resources and more. With more than 60 years of technological innovation and leadership, FEI has set the performance standard in transmission electron microscopes (TEM), scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and DualBeams™, which combine a SEM with a focused ion beam (FIB). Headquartered in Hillsboro, Ore., USA, FEI has over 2,000 employees and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world.