Meet David Doyle

David Doyle, President and Managing Director of HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION

David Doyle is the President and Managing Director of HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION, a subsidiary of Dr. Johannes HEIDENHAIN GmbH, a global leader in high performance motion control solutions, headquartered in Traunreut, Germany.

David is spearheading the organization and business development activities for HEIDENHAIN in North America within the electronics, automation and machine tool capital equipment markets. HEIDENHAIN also enables advanced systems capabilities in the robotics, automotive, energy, agriculture, medical and life science industries.

With over 25 years in technical, product management and senior leadership roles, he has worked with GEC Plessey Semiconductors, KLA-Tencor, Machine Vision Technologies (acquired by Agilent), Orbotech, Accent Optical Technologies (acquired by Nanometrics) and Nanometrics Inc. Throughout his career, David has been instrumental in expanding applications for the innovative technologies his companies have developed and creating market leading positions.

The metrology technology innovations and products he promoted while with Nanometrics have enabled advanced process control solutions for FinFET logic, 3D NAND, DRAM and compound semiconductor devices which support advanced computation, cloud based analytics, machine learning, communications and emerging artificial intelligence applications.

Born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, David attended St Paul’s College, Dublin, and Maynooth University (National University of Ireland), earning a double honors degree in chemistry and experimental physics. He has also attended Stanford University for professional development programs.

David, his wife Patricia and their three sons support the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation and the Mitochondrial Research Guild at Seattle Children’s Hospital and have been ambassadors for mitochondrial disease support groups since 2001.