Organisational changes provide divisional autonomy

IPTE has made a number of organisational changes which will allow its Factory Automation and Contract Manufacturing Divisions to each follow a more autonomous course.

IPTE has made a number of organisational changes which will allow its Factory Automation and Contract Manufacturing Divisions to each follow a more autonomous course.

Schadnusch Nejad has been appointed CEO of the Factory Automation Division and Luc Switten has been made CEO of the Contract Manufacturing Division.

Both executives will report to Huub Baren, Managing Director of the IPTE Group.

The changes reflect the strategy of the board of directors to give more autonomy to both divisions so they can determine their own corporate strategy and implement the necessary management decisions in order for them to take advantage of new markets and opportunities.

"With these changes at the top of our company, we are able to consolidate our structure and have provided the next generation of leaders", says Huub Baren, Managing Director of the IPTE Group.

"In particular we are very proud of the strengths and specialities of both newly appointed CEOs within this organisation and their commitment to the further growth and success of the group".

"I would like to refer in particular to the added value that Schadnusch Nejad brings to our organisation".

"His experience will contribute to the strengthening and the further expansion of the factory automation business and future technological developments".

"With Luc Switten, joint founder and director of IPTE, at the head of the Contract Manufacturing Division, the Connect Systems Group, we continue the strategy and build further on the growth and successes that he has achieved in the past years".

In his position of CEO, Schadnusch Nejad will be responsible for the strategy of IPTE Factory Automation and its implementation, the results of the division, the further development and consolidation of the group in existing and new submarkets and the synergy and integration of the different IPTE production sites.

Nejad (German, 44) began his career at Bosch (Germany) where he held several positions during the nineties in sales and key account management.

In 2000, he went to Rohwedder (Germany) as member of the management board.

In addition, he is also a director in a number of group companies.

The most important task of Luc Switten as CEO of the Connect Systems Group consists of continuing the growth that the division has made in recent years and expanding the group further to ensure that it becomes an important player in the European EMS (electronic manufacturing services) sector.

Switten, (Belgian, 39), began his career at Philips in Hasselt (Belgium).

In 1992 he founded ITE with four ex-Philips colleagues, including Managing Director Huub Baren.

Together they succeeded in making ITE a market leader in the sector of test and production automation for the electronics industry.

In 2000, when IPTE went public and the name changed to IPTE, he went from the Factory Automation Division to Contract Manufacturing which was set up following the acquisition of Connect Systems (Belgium) where he was General Manager.

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