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IPC Announces New Board Members at IPC APEX EXPO 2024
April 10, 2024 | IPCEstimated reading time: 1 minute
At the 67th IPC Annual Meeting on April 9, held in conjunction with IPC APEX EXPO 2024, the IPC Board of Directors announced new officers and new and second-term members. Board officers serve a two-year term, board members serve a four-year term, and the student board member serves a one-year term.
The newly elected Board officers are:
- IPC Board Chair: Tom Edman, President and CEO, TTM Technologies
- IPC Board Vice Chair: Jeff Timms, CEO, ASMPT SMT USA LLC
- IPC Board Secretary/Treasurer: Peter Cleveland, Senior Vice President, TSMC
First time Board members are:
- Gerald "JJ " Creadon, Executive Vice President, Operations, Jabil
- Gerald Eckstein, Senior Vice President, Engineering Electronic Control Units & Head of Business Unit Mechatronics, Robert Bosch GmbH
- Parker Garrett, CEO, EMSCO
- Greg Maxwell, Vice President, Advanced & Strategic Global Supply Chain for Operations, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
- Jaesang Min, Research Fellow, LG PRI (Production Engineering Research Institute)
Second term Board members are:
- Marc Peo, President, Heller Industries
- Hiroyuki Watanabe, Executive Vice President and Member of the Board for New Business and Sales, NEC Corporation
Student Board member is:
- Junyang (Max) Zhang, University of California, Irvine
"IPC is privileged to have these outstanding professionals on our current slate of Board members," said John W. Mitchell, IPC president and CEO. "We look forward to working with them as we advance the global electronics industry and build electronics better."
In addition to Board election announcements, IPC honored six outgoing Board Members:
- Henry Crandall, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Utah
- Joe DeMan, President, Interconnect Dynamics - An Amphenol Global Solutions Provider
- Robert Feuerstein, Chief Information Security Officer, Group Sector Automotive, Continental AG
- Steve Pudles, Board of Directors and Advisor, Zentech Manufacturing, Inc.
- Lisa Weeks, SVP, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Investor Relations, Benchmark Electronics
- Shane Whiteside, President and CEO, Summit Interconnect
Added Mitchell, "IPC expresses its sincere gratitude to Henry, Joe, Robert, Steve, Lisa and Shane for their dedicated service to the IPC Board. All have shared their expertise with IPC and industry - we thank them for imparting their knowledge and helping guide IPC to best serve our members and the global electronics community."
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