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New boss at Amplicon
Amplicon Managing Director, Tony Gorbold, has sold his share holding in the company to Gina Citroni, the current Commercial Director and other shareholder of the business. The deal was completed on 30 April 2009. Gorbold who started his career with Amplicon in 1974, some 35 years ago, was instrumental in Amplicon’s early growth and success.
DuriGina Citroni, who now takes total control of the business, joined Amplicon in 2001 as purchasing manager, was quickly promoted to commercial manager in 2002, and promoted to the board as Commercial Director in July 2004. She was part of the original MBO team in March 2005 and is responsible for the dramatic rise of the business from a local enterprise to a world renowned electronic solution provider. Citroni commented, ‘ My pathway to the top hasn’t been easy, but I am looking forward to driving the business forward to our goal of £50 million in turnover during the coming 10 years. I have a young, intelligent and energetic team and I owe them success!’
Amplicon provide the marketplace with a wide range of advanced computer-based measurement and automation systems that can be customised, networked and bundled for easy integration, backed by a technically competent workforce with a highly developed engineering capability and a state of the art EMC test facility. With experience of designing and manufacturing compliant products Amplicon has unparalleled knowledge and applying their EMC expertise to their product range allows them to provide fully compliant systems with known and predictable characteristics.