DES PLAINES , IL – Littelfuse has elected William Noglows, 49, to the company’s board of directors. Noglows is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Cabot Microelectronics Corp., a supplier of consumable p rod ucts used in the semiconductor manufacturing process.

Noglows assumed his current position at Cabot Microelectronics Corp. in 2003. Prior to that, he was an executive vice president and general manager at Cabot. In this position, he was responsible for running the company’s $1.2 billion core particle business, which included operations in North and South America , Europe and Asia . Noglows was a primary founder of Cabot Microelectronics, which has been a fully-independent, publicly-traded entity since 2000. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The company also announced that Bruce Karsh has indicated he will not stand for re-election at the company’s annual meeting in April 2007. Karsh is president and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, LLC.

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