David Keck - GT Advanced CEO and Pres

CEO

Mr. David W. Keck is Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He was Executive Vice President Solar Business of GT Advanced Technologies Inc. since March 2014 and served as Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales and Services from January 2013 to March 2014. He served as Vice President and General Manager Polysilicon from May 2009 to January 2013 and as Vice President Silicon Development from April 2006 to May 2009. Prior to April 2006 he operated his own consulting business relating to the silicon industry. From 1991 to 2005 Mr. Keck was Vice President of Business Development Plant Manager and Operations Manager at Advanced Silicon Materials Incorporated one of the leading manufacturers of ultrapure silicon. He focused on the manufacture of silane gas and polysilicon for wafer fabrication companies and semiconductor companies. During his tenure at ASIMI Mr. Keck worked on two major expansions including having overall responsibility for commissioning and starting up ASIMI greenfield facility in Butte Montana. Early in his tenure at ASIMI he was responsible for the design and operation of equipment that produced silicon. Prior to joining ASIMI from 1987 to 1989 he served as a thermodynamics engineer with Lockheed Missiles Space Corporation where he was responsible for the design and testing for heat transfer systems in spacecraft since 2015.
Age 49
Tenure 9 years
Phone603 883-5200
Webwww.gtsolar.com
Keck has a degree in chemical engineering from Montana State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Washington.

GT Advanced Management Efficiency

GT Advanced's management efficiency ratios could be used to measure how well GT Advanced manages its routine affairs as well as how well it operates its assets and liabilities.
The company has accumulated 299.56 M in total debt with debt to equity ratio (D/E) of 3.75, implying the company greatly relies on financing operations through barrowing. GT Advanced Technologies has a current ratio of 1.0, suggesting that it is not liquid enough and may have problems paying out its financial obligations in time and when they become due. Debt can assist GT Advanced until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, GT Advanced's shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like GT Advanced Technologies sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for GTATQ to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about GT Advanced's use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.

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GT Advanced Technologies Inc., a technology company, offer materials and equipment for the solar, light emitting diode , and electronics industries worldwide. GT Advanced Technologies [GTATQ] is a Pink Sheet which is traded through a dealer network over-the-counter (OTC).

Management Performance

GT Advanced Technologies Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the GT Advanced's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: GT Advanced inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of GTATQ. The board's role is to monitor GT Advanced's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. GT Advanced's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, GT Advanced's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Kenwardev Bal, CFO and VP
Daniel Squiller, Executive VP of Industrial Systems
Richard Newsted, Independent Director
Jeffrey Ford, Vice President - Asia and Industrial Furnaces Business
Ernest Godshalk, Independent Director
Robert Switz, Independent Director
Hoil Kim, Chief Admin. Officer, VP, General Counsel and Secretary
Noel Watson, Independent Director
Matthew Massengill, Independent Chairman of the Board
John Ray, Independent Director
John Conaway, Independent Director
David Keck, CEO and Pres
Kathleen Cote, Independent Director
Thomas Wroe, Independent Director

GTATQ Stock Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right pink sheet is not an easy task. Is GT Advanced a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.
Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards GT Advanced in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, GT Advanced's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from GT Advanced options trading.

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