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News Release from: Exception Group | Subject: New managing director
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 April 2007
New managing director for contract
manufacturer
Richard Brighton becomes managing director of Wiltshire-based contract electronics manufacturing company
Richard Brighton has left Celestica to join Exception EMS, the growing contract electronics manufacturing business based in Calne, Wiltshire, as managing director Having gained valuable electronics sector experience with such names as Pressac and most recently Celestica, where he headed up UK manufacturing, Brighton is well placed to lead Exception's EMS business, which already has a strong track record in the aerospace, transport, telecoms, media and medical sectors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Craig Wright, CEO of Exception is delighted with the appointment.
He says: "Richard's move to head up the EMS business within Exception is a reflection of the huge opportunity we have at our Calne facility to make this business a European centre of excellence for electronics outsourcing".
"We already have a fantastic business, with a long list of blue chip clients such as Knorr-Bremse, Solid State Logic and Hailiburton".
"We also work alongside Rutherford Laboratories, supporting the ground-breaking CERN and AGATA particle physics projects".
"With Richard's infectious enthusiasm and leadership, the next few months are set to be exciting times for all of us at Exception".
"This business has massive potential in the outsourced electronics market and Richard is the very man to realise that opportunity".
Brighton has strong engineering credentials, gaining an MSc with distinction from the University of Warwick.
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