Dr. Robert M. Brill Joins CVD’s Board of Directors

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV),
a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems and materials,
today announced today announced that Dr. Robert M. Brill has been
elected to its Board of Directors effective April 16, 2018. With the
addition of Dr. Brill, the board has six directors.

Dr. Robert M. Brill is co-founder and managing partner of Newlight
Management, headquartered in Jericho, New York, a venture capital fund
that focuses on early stage technology companies. Prior to co-founding
Newlight, Dr. Brill was a general partner of Poly Ventures, a Long
Island based venture capital fund. Newlight and Poly Ventures have
collectively invested in over 60 private companies including Long Island
based Fatwire, Invision, and Globecomm. He is currently on the Board of
Directors of the L.I. Angel Network, the L.I. High Tech Incubator and
several private companies. He has served on the Board of Directors of
multiple public and private companies.

Prior to joining Poly Ventures, Dr. Brill was a successful turnaround
CEO at both private and public companies. He served as General Manager
of Harris Corporation’s CMOS Semiconductor Division where he was
responsible for launching the world’s first two commercial 16-bit CMOS
microprocessors. He also held various technical and management positions
at IBM’s semiconductor operation.

Dr. Brill holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Brown University and a
B.A. and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University. He is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He is a founding member of the
Technical Advisory Board of the Semiconductor Research Corporation and
was elected to the L.I. Technology Hall of Fame. He holds multiple
patents and invention disclosures.

Leonard A. Rosenbaum, President and Board Chairman of CVD Equipment
Corporation welcomed Dr. Brill to the Board, stating, “Dr. Brill,
through his insight, market knowledge, and broad range of technical and
industry experience, will be a valuable asset to CVD as our Company
continues to expand and commercialize exciting new technologies. We look
forward to working with Bob.”

About CVD Equipment Corporation

CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV)
designs, develops, and manufactures a broad range of chemical vapor
deposition, gas control, and other state-of-the-art equipment and
process solutions used to develop and manufacture materials and coatings
for research and industrial applications. This equipment is used by its
customers to research, design, and manufacture these materials or
coatings for aerospace engine components, medical implants,
semiconductors, solar cells, smart glass, carbon nanotubes, nanowires,
LEDs, MEMS, and other applications. Through its application laboratory,
the Company provides process development support and process startup
assistance with the focus on enabling tomorrow’s technologies™. It’s
wholly owned subsidiary CVD Materials Corporation provides advanced
materials and metal surface treatments and coatings to serve demanding
applications in the electronic, biomedical, petroleum, pharmaceutical,
and many other industrial markets.

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harbor” for forward-looking statements. Certain information included in
this press release (as well as information included in oral statements
or other written statements made or to be made by CVD Equipment
Corporation) contains statements that are forward-looking. All
statements other than statements of historical fact are hereby
identified as “forward-looking statements, “as such term is defined in
Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such
forward looking information involves a number of known and unknown risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those discussed or anticipated by management. Potential risks and
uncertainties include, among other factors, conditions, success of CVD
Equipment Corporation’s growth and sales strategies, the possibility of
customer changes in delivery schedules, cancellation of orders,
potential delays in product shipments, delays in obtaining inventory
parts from suppliers and failure to satisfy customer acceptance
requirements.

Contacts

CVD Equipment Corporation
Gina Franco, 631-981-7081
Fax:
631-981-7095
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