Electronics Industry Awards Meet the judges


This year’s illustrious judging panel for The Electronics Industry Awards comprises a wealth of international experience and expertise from across the electronic components industry


Datateam Business Media, publisher of Components in Electronics magazine and the organiser of The Electronics Industry Awards, is delighted to introduce this year’s judging panel:


Adam Fletcher, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn)


Adam Fletcher is chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), a business association established in 1970 that today offers support to all organisations with an interest in electronic components throughout their entire lifecycle. He is also chairman of the International


Distribution of Electronics Association (IDEA), an association of individual country electronic components associations whose objective is to arrive at and share best industry practice.


Aneela Rose, founder and managing director of Sussex-based Rose Media Group


Aneela is a multi-award winning B2B PR specialist focusing on sustainability in the business sector. With an aerospace industry background and 25 years’ experience working within manufacturing and engineering, she is now specialising in green energy specifi cally around the topics of electrifi cation of


society, EV batteries and hydrogen fuel cell technology.


John Biggs, chairman of the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA)


John Biggs has spent over 40 years at senior manager or board level in the electronics industry and not for profi t organisations. In 1984, he joined Spectrastrip, a UK electromechanical manufacturer, where he headed up commercial activities. In 1992, John moved to


HUBER+SUHNER as commercial manager and spent 22 years there in a number of UK and international roles. His fi nal role was as managing director for Northern Europe. In 2008 John, along with two industry peers, established the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA). Since retiring in 2014 John has undertaken a number of consultancy roles. He is currently chairman of ITSA.


Peter Hannon, vice chair of the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA)


Peter Hannon is a qualifi ed accountant. Over the last 30 years he has held a number of roles in the electronics industry for companies like Texas Instruments and Power Innovations amongst others. He progressed from fi nance director to spending the last 15 years as managing director


of HARTING UK Ltd, the Interconnection company, responsible for the UK & Ireland. Peter now advises SME’s and remains actively involved in trade associations for Electronics and Interconnectivity. He is currently vice chair of ITSA.


Steve Fitz, technology director, Plextek


After graduating in 1983 with a fi rst class honours degree in electrical engineering, Steve worked for ten years at GEC-Marconi Research developing communication system solutions, power electronics and high speed sampling techniques. In 1995 he joined Plextek and was engaged in a variety of RF system and product developments including


cellular handsets, broadband wireless access and novel location devices. In 2004 Steve left Plextek to take up a role that was partly industrial and partly academic at the University of Essex. In 2012 Steve re-joined Plextek as technology director, helping to steer the direction of the organisation and expand its technology offering.


Hfaiedh Merchergui, professor of electrical engineering, University of Tunis, Tunisia


Hfaiedh has been professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tunis, Tunisia, since 2015, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students on the subjects of measurements, electronics and electrical engineering. Hfaiedh began as an assistant at the university in 1981, before


working his way up to his current role. Today, he sits on a number of scientifi c councils and committees including the Scientifi c Council of ENSET, Tunisia. Hfaiedh has extensive research experience in the fi eld of electrical engineering with research papers published in journals all over the world.


How the decision-making process works


Subject to meeting the necessary criteria, each entry and nomination will proceed to the decision-making stage. The decisions are made using a two-part process. Industry professionals will be invited to make their voices heard by casting their choices in an online vote. In the Product and Individual categories, the results of this vote will hold a 50 per cent weight in the fi nal decision. The results of the voting will be tallied with the results determined by our


www.cieonline.co.uk


independent panel of expert judges. In the Business categories, the online industry vote will be the sole determining factor in who wins. A shortlist of fi ve per category will be announced once the judging and voting have taken place.


For more information about the Electronics Industry Awards and to enter online please visit: www.electronicsindustryawards.co.uk


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