SMTC Corporation COO, Rich Fitzgerald, Appointed to the Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Board of Directors
February 18 2020 - 9:15AM
SMTC Corporation (Nasdaq:SMTX), a global electronics manufacturing
services provider and winner of the Frost & Sullivan’s 2019
Best Practices Award for Customer Value Leadership in the
Electronics Manufacturing Services Industry, today announced that
Rich Fitzgerald, SMTC’s Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed
to the Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Board of
Directors.
“We are pleased to have Rich join AME’s board of directors as he
brings an extensive track record leading high-performing
manufacturing organizations. As a director-at-large, Rich will play
a key role in setting the path forward for the association,
supporting our mission and goals, and providing guidance and
direction to the association’s president, management team and
staff,” said William C. Fierle, chair of the AME board of
directors.
“I am honored to be selected to join the AME’s Board of
Directors. I am looking forward to contributing to AME’s mission
and sharing my experience with others in the organization,” said
Rich Fitzgerald, SMTC Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to his current role as SMTC’s Chief Operating Officer,
where he is responsible for managing SMTC’s Global Operations,
spanning facilities and production to design and engineering, and
sourcing and supply chain, Fitzgerald held senior leadership roles
at Avnet, Qual-Pro Corporation, and CTS Corporation, also in supply
chain and operations management. Earlier in his career, Fitzgerald
was an integral part of the Lean Manufacturing implementation team
at Intel Corporation. Prior to joining Intel, he was a commissioned
officer and served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Fitzgerald earned a
bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of
Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business.
About the Association for Manufacturing
Excellence
Since its founding in 1985, the Association for Manufacturing
Excellence (AME) has grown into the premier not-for-profit
organization for the exchange of enterprise excellence knowledge.
The association’s 4,000 members come together through
practitioner-to-practitioner experiences to explore lean thinking
and other operational improvement methods, exchange best practices
and network. Through engaging workshops, plant tours, summits and
industry-leading conferences, AME members discover and implement
new continuous improvement strategies in order to share, learn and
grow. For more information, visit www.ame.org.
About SMTC
SMTC Corporation was founded in 1985 and acquired MC Assembly
Holdings, Inc. in November 2018. SMTC has more than 50
manufacturing and assembly lines in United States, China and Mexico
which creates a powerful low-to-medium volume, high-mix, end-to-end
global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider. With
local support and expanded manufacturing capabilities globally,
including fully integrated contract manufacturing services with a
focus on global original equipment manufacturers and emerging
technology companies, including those in the Defense and Aerospace,
Industrial, Power and Clean Technology, Medical and Safety, Retail
and Payment Systems, Semiconductors and Telecom, Networking and
Communications; and Test and Measurement industries. As a mid-size
provider of end-to-end EMS, SMTC provides printed circuit boards
assemblies production, systems integration and comprehensive
testing services, enclosure fabrication, as well as product design,
sustaining engineering and supply chain management services. SMTC
services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle from
the development and introduction of new products through to the
growth, maturity and end-of-life phases. For further information on
SMTC Corporation, please visit our website at www.smtc.com.
Investor Relations Contact
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