ASML announces appointment of new CFO to the Board of Management

ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) today announces that the Supervisory Board intends to appoint Wolfgang Nickl as executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to the Board of Management, subject to notification of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for April 23, 2014.

Nickl, age 44, will join ASML on December 1, 2013.

Nickl is executive vice president and CFO at Western Digital Corporation, a US-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed developer and manufacturer of storage devices. He progressed through a series of financial and operational leadership roles since joining Western Digital in 1995. Before Western Digital, Nickl gained experience in finance and IT consulting. He earned a BA in business from the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart, Germany, and an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles in the US.

“We are delighted to have Wolfgang join us. He brings broad, international experience and deep knowledge of the high-tech manufacturing industry to ASML. We are confident he will make a great contribution to realizing our ambition for continued technology leadership and further growth, which will be to the benefit of all our stakeholders,” said Peter Wennink, president at Chief Executive Officer at ASML.