The lighting sector has been relatively unaffected by the downturn and there are significant business opportunites, according to Mark Pinkney, the newly appointed marketing manager for Anglia's lighting business.
Anglia Embedded has appointed Paul Senior as divisional marketing manager for its M2M and embedded business.
Andy King has been named vice president of sales for Arrow's EMEA components business.
Analog Devices has appointed Gernot Faigel as its new channel director for the EMEA region.
Avnet Technology Solutions has named Henry Godwin as regional director for the
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Ho-Pin Tung is aiming to be the first racing driver from the People's Republic of China to start the Indianapolis 500 on May 29.
Tung's bid to qualify for the race this week is being sponsored by Mouser Electronics.
Avnet Memec has extended technical design support in Scandinavia with the appointment of a technical account manager for Denmark.
After over 25 years of service Gary Kibblewhite has stepped down as chair of Milan-based association of electronics supply chain trade associations, IDEA.
Adam Fletcher, chairman of ecsn, will replace Kibblewhite as IDEA chairman.
Avnet Abacus has promoted Kieron Murdock to UK and Ireland marketing manager reporting to Nigel Ward, UK and Ireland country director.
Energy Micro has appointed a v-p of sales for the Asia Pacific region, Andrea Marchi.
He joins the microcontroller supplier's general manager and director of sales for Greater China, Bryan Hung, at the company's newly opened Asia headquarters in Hong Kong.
Andrea joins Energy Micro from Texas Instruments, Dallas, where he was general manager of the firm's C5000 DSP business unit.
Confidence in the market rebound has prompted distributor Anglia to add to its sales and marketing team.
"As the market recovery continues it is important that we maintain our ongoing investment in our customer facing sales team to support and develop new business opportunities," said Jim Ward, sales and marketing director at Anglia.
National Instruments UK has been named one of the UK's 50 Best Workplaces for a fifth consecutive year.
Murata has picked up a 'platinum level' supplier award from distributor TTI.
PULS UK has appointed Mike Moore as sales manager.
Anglia has added to its sales and marketing team with a new marketing manager and two account managers.
Solid State Supplies has appointed Tony Frere as non-executive director.
Graham Maggs has joined Mouser as its European supplier marketing director.
Former AMD executive Jay Nunez has joined Mirics Semiconductor and he has been tasked with driving the digital Tv tuner company's commercial growth in the US and Europe.
