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In the dynamic landscape of interconnect solutions, Flexible Circuit Technology (FCT) is making waves through significant leadership changes and expansion initiatives. Vice President Carey Burkett, newly appointed executive vice president Ray Cottrell, and marketing director Abby Meyer share their vision for steering the company toward innovative growth. FCT has a robust focus on diverse markets such as medical, automotive, consumer electronics, and HDI (high density interconnect). They are accelerating FCT’s mission to provide exceptional value and service to customers throughout the product lifecycle.
Marcy LaRont: Carey, tell me about FCT and some of the changes taking place.
Carey Burkett: We're a global leader and supplier of specialty interconnects and value-added services. Our focus is on commercial markets, mainly medical, automotive, EV battery, consumer and industrial telecom, data, and high reliability markets.
As a company, we continue to focus on excellence, service, and providing value to our customers. We have expanded and made a lot of changes. Ray Cottrell is our new executive vice president and our new business and growth leader for FCT. Ray will replace me as I transition toward retirement. Along with Troy Koopman, our owner, we are really excited about Ray. He brings excellent industry expertise along with an outstanding track record of significantly growing the past organizations he served.
LaRont: Congratulations. That is big news. Ray, would you please introduce yourself?
Ray Cottrell: I've only been with FCT for a couple of months, but in the industry for 30 years. I’ve lived all over the U.S. and run global commercial teams for companies of all sizes, with the sole focus of bringing value-added design and manufacturing services to the marketplace. As Carey said, there is great alignment with my background in the market segments that we're focused on and all the exciting happenings at FCT and with inTFlex, which is our EMS solutions group.
Our capabilities and facilities in China are amazing. Carey and I just came back from a whirlwind trip and saw the newly updated facilities. They are roughly a million-and-a-half square feet of truly state-of-the-art manufacturing on both the bare circuit and EMS sides. We see a tremendous opportunity offering our flexible solutions and rolling into an integrated offering and more value-add through the product lifecycle, whether it's on the initial desig
To read the entire inteview, which originally appeared in the December 2024 issue of PCB007 Magazine, click here.
