Zwolle, 30 January 2015 The management board of RoodMicrotec N.V. announces that it will appoint Mr Martin Sallenhag MSc as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) as of 1 March 2015, succeeding Mr Norbert Wirth. Mr Wirth was CTO with RoodMicrotec since 2011; he sadly died at the end of 2014 after a long illness. Both the supervisory board, the management board and the employees are deeply saddened by Mr Wirth's death, and will miss his experience and knowledge...

Zwolle, 30 January 2015

  

The management board of RoodMicrotec N.V. announces that it will appoint Mr Martin Sallenhag MSc as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) as of 1 March 2015, succeeding Mr Norbert Wirth. Mr Wirth was CTO with RoodMicrotec since 2011; he sadly died at the end of 2014 after a long illness. Both the supervisory board, the management board and the employees are deeply saddened by Mr Wirth's death, and will miss his experience and knowledge.

 

Mr Sallenhag, 46 years old, electronic engineer, has worked in engineering and senior management positions for 22 years, including with Ericsson, Axis Communications, Dialog Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics. He has extensive experience of product development, project management, sales support and managing international organisations.

 

As RoodMicrotec CTO, Mr Sallenhag will be directly responsible for Failure & Technology Analysis, Opto & Mechanical Qualification and Engineering in Stuttgart and Nördlingen and operationally, as Business Unit Manager, for Qualification & Reliability. Mr Sallenhag will also be responsible for our high-tech engineering activities in both Stuttgart and Nördlingen.

 

The board of management and the supervisory board are delighted that Mr Sallenhag is to join the company.

 

The board is convinced that Mr Sallenhag's knowledge and experience will provide a major contribution to the support of mostly new projects, both from OEMs and Fabless Companies.

 

 

About RoodMicrotec

With 45 years' experience as an independent value-added service provider in the area of micro and optoelectronics, RoodMicrotec offers fabless companies, OEMs and other companies a one-stop shopping proposition. With its powerful solutions RoodMicrotec has built up a strong position in Europe.

 

Our services comply with the industrial and quality requirements of the high reliability/space, automotive, telecommunications, medical, IT and electronics sectors.

 

'Certified by RoodMicrotec' concerns inter alia testing of products to the stringent ISO/TS 16949 standard that applies to suppliers to the automotive industry. The company also has an accredited laboratory for test activities and calibration to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard.

 

The value-added services comprise inter alia (eXtended) supply chain management, failure & technology analysis, qualification & burn-in, test- & product engineering, production test (including device programming and end-of-line service), ESD/ESDFOS assessment & training, quality & reliability consulting and total manufacturing solutions with partners.

 

RoodMicrotec has branches in Germany (Dresden, Nördlingen, Stuttgart), the UK (Bath) and the Netherlands (Zwolle).

 

 

Further information:

Philip Nijenhuis, CEO

Telephone:        +31 (0) 38 4215216

Email:              [email protected]

Website:           www.roodmicrotec.com

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