Appointments

TT Electronics has announced the appointment of its first-ever Group Sustainability Director. Emma Darke, who has served as TT’s Head of Investor Relations since 2016, has stepped away from her IR duties to take on this new and important role for TT Electronics.

Hylec-APL, the specialist supplier of electrical components and enclosures, has appointed Chris Shore as South Western Area Sales Manager from July 1st, 2021. Shore joins an expanding team at Hylec as the company reports robust sales across its entire product portfolio. 

Acronis has appointed cloud software and hosting industry veteran Patrick Pulvermueller as Chief Executive Officer, effective as of 1st July, 2021. Pulvermueller succeeds Serguei Beloussov, who founded the company in 2003 and has served as CEO since 2013.

SGET, an international not-for-profit association of companies and organisations that collaboratively develop independent specifications for embedded computer technology, held its triennial management board election. The group elected a new chairman and re-elected four members of the board to lead the association through 2024.

Schneider Electric has announced the election of Hans Smid as President of the European Building Automation and Controls Association (eu.bac).  

Schneider Electric has appointed Luis D’Acosta as the new Executive Vice President of its Digital Energy global business starting 1st July, 2021.

In January 2021, Dr Raj Chakraborty took over management of the LASER COMPONENTS Detector Group from Dragan Grubisic, who has retired from day-to-day operations after 17 years at the helm but will remain available to the company for development projects.

Alistair Jones has joined Alliance Memory as the company's regional sales manager for Northern Europe.

Benedetto Vigna, President of the Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group at STMicroelectronics is leaving the company to become Chief Executive Officer at Ferrari.

Infinite Electronics has appointed Emily Campbell to the position of Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Campbell will lead Infinite’s global marketing strategy and execution, including brand strategy, direct and digital marketing, eCommerce, customer experience, acquisition and retention, internal and external communications, PR, analytics and marketing operations.