Appointments

Protolabs has named Alex Cappy as its new Vice President and CEO of Hubs, a Protolabs Company, effective Friday, 1st October.

Synopsys today announced that as part of its ongoing evolution and scaling of the business, Sassine Ghazi has been appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer, effective 1st November 2021. Chi-Foon Chan will transition from his Co-CEO position over the first half of fiscal 2022, after which he will continue to support the company's long-term success in a new role.

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.