Vitronics Soltec has named Erik Tobiason president, replacing Jeroen Schmits, who was named head of Universal Instruments last month.

Vitronics and Universal are subsidiaries of Dover Technologies. Tobiason was president of Graphics Microsystems Inc., also a Dover Corp. subsidiary. He was also vice president of engineering and R&D of GMI, and held positions in engineering and technology management with front-end semiconductor companies in the Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's in physics from California Polytechnic, and a masters in business from Santa Clara University. He is based in the company's New Hampshire facility.