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May 8, 2025 | IPCEstimated reading time: 1 minute
IPC, the global electronics association, announces the promotion of Sanjay Huprikar to chief global officer. This newly created position reflects the association’s forward-looking strategy and industry needs to strengthen the electronics supply chain.
In this role, Huprikar is responsible for enhancing alignment, efficiency and support between IPC’s global headquarters and regional teams. Initially reporting into Huprikar are the vice president of international relations and vice presidents of U.S. and Canada, Europe, India and Southeast Asia regions. Collaborating with his team, Huprikar will work to ensure that the needs of each region’s electronics industry are clearly understood and served by IPC.
Huprikar joined IPC in 2012 as vice president of member success. Since then, he has taken roles of increasing responsibility and leadership and most recently served as president of Europe and South Asia operations and led IPC’s globalization initiative to expand the association’s standards, education, and advocacy support to Europe, the United Kingdom, India, and several countries in Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
“Sanjay is a highly experienced business and engineering professional. He has strong cross-cultural leadership skills and vast knowledge of both the key influencers in the global community and the important challenges facing the industry,” said John W. Mitchell, IPC president and CEO. “Through his leadership, regional teams will be better enabled with more resources, greater input and enhanced collaboration for furthering IPC’s mission to build a resilient, sustainable and prosperous global electronics industry.”
Huprikar is based at IPC’s corporate headquarters in Bannockburn, Ill., and can be reached at SanjayHuprikar@ipc.org.
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