ANGLETON, TX -- Benchmark Electronics today announced that cofounders Steven A. Barton and Donald E. Nigbor will retire effective Dec. 1. Both have served as directors for more than 20 years.

Barton and Nigbor will remain directors until the 2009 annual meeting of shareholders. The board intends to nominate chief executive Cary T. Fu to succeed Nigbor as chairman, effective in May 2009.

Fu will become the last of the founders to remain with the company.

Benchmark was founded in 1986.

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