Profiles

Douglas Hunter, vice president of corporate marketing and chief of staff at Lattice Semiconductor, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Hunter joined Lattice in 1999. As vice president of corporate marketing, and  is responsible for the company"s global advertising, public relations, press, literature and interactive marketing.

David Lussey, co-founder and chief technical officer of Peratech, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Lussey is the CTO of Peratech, tasked with promoting the understanding of quantum tunnelling composites (QTC) technology to academic, industrial and the public at large.

William Heath, commercial director at OMC, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline.

Heath is the commercial director at OMC, an optoelectronics company based in Cornwall. He has worked at OMC for about ten years, starting as an R&D project coordinator, then sales engineer. In 2009, he became a director in charge of the commercial department covering new product development, technical sales and marketing.

Laurence Dellicott, Silica’s director of field applications for EMEA, aims to raise £30,000 for charity in a cycling marathon. He talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline.

Mark Burr-Lonnon, Mouser’s vice president for Europe and Asia, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Mark currently holds the position of vice president for Europe and Asia for Mouser. Previously he worked in a number of roles for sister distribution company TTI as well as several component manufacturers.

Alan Paterson, European marketing director for Farnell Element 14, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline.

After graduating in business studies at Robert Gordon’s University in 1991, Alan Paterson joined the oil and gas industry with Exxon Mobil where he stayed from 1992 to 2004. He worked in the building systems industry with Johnson Controls from 2004 to 2007 as vice president for distribution in Europe and Africa.

Michael LeGoff, managing director of Plessey Semiconductors, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline.

As managing director, Michael LeGoff is leading the re-launch of the iconic electronics brand Plessey. The Plymouth-based manufacturer focuses on semiconductor-based sensors and solid-state lighting. The company also has a design centre in Swindon and a sales office in China.

Howard Lin, European managing director for Advantech, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline.

A graduate from the National Taiwan University with a master degree in electronic engineering Lin joined Hewlett Packard Taiwan in 1989 as a salesperson for measurement equipment. At HP, he had been an engineer, a project manager and regional sales manager. He transferred to Agilent Taiwan in 1998 as the head of sales and later became the vice president in 2000.

Ken Millar, senior European sales channel manager for Microchip, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline.

Ken Millar is senior sales channel manager at Microchip Technology and has been with the company for ten years. He previously worked at IDT for six years as European distribution manager, and before that was sales manager at Hitachi and NEC.

Having graduated in 1982 from Salford University with a BSc Hons in biomedical electronics, Millar started his career with the Royal Liverpool Hospital in the medical electronics department. In 1984, he started a new career in electronics distribution as a field applications engineer with Abacus, before moving to sales with NEC.

Glenn Palmer, managing director for European distribution and national accounts at Murata, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline.

Glenn Palmer joined Murata in June 1990 as customer services manager following eight years with the Pilkington group. He was appointed OEM sales manager in 1995, then sales and marketing manager in 1998, moving on to sales and marketing director in 2002 and deputy managing director in 2005. In April 2007, he became managing director of Murata Electronics in the UK and three years later managing director for European distribution and national accounts for Murata in Europe.