Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI)

Session
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
10:20 - 10:20
Duration: 21 mins
Publication date: 27 May 2015
Location: NA, Cranfield University , Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Part of event The National Manufacturing Debate

About the session

The National Manufacturing Debate is an annual event hosted by Cranfield University, bringing together manufacturing professionals from a range of sectors to discuss and debate current challenges in the industry. The 2015 topic was “How do we develop the capability for effective reshoring to the UK?”.

Keywords:: AMSCI

NMD

UK Reshoring

manufacturing

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Manufacturing

Speakers

David Kynaston

AMSCI Investment Board, Chairman

David Kynaston, OBE FInstP, completed his operational career as Operations Director and Senior Executive Vice President of Solectron Inc then the world’s largest Electronics Contract Manufacturer.Originally a scientist and holder of The Kelvin Prize for Physics, he spent his early years in the development of both electron beam machines and the ubiquitous CAT scanner. Later as a Director of Philips Electronics, over an eighteen-year period, he headed up the Mullard Electronics Components subsidiary and then The Business Communications and Private Mobile Radio Divisions.David has worked extensively abroad and latterly for seven years in Silicon Valley where he enjoyed spectacular growth in the Contract Manufacturing sector. Today he actively participates on several high tech boards and chairs two independent investment boards
David Kynaston

AMSCI Investment Board, Chairman

David Kynaston, OBE FInstP, completed his operational career as Operations Director and Senior Executive Vice President of Solectron Inc then the world’s largest Electronics Contract Manufacturer.Originally a scientist and holder of The Kelvin Prize for Physics, he spent his early years in the development of both electron beam machines and the ubiquitous CAT scanner. Later as a Director of Philips Electronics, over an eighteen-year period, he headed up the Mullard Electronics Components subsidiary and then The Business Communications and Private Mobile Radio Divisions.David has worked extensively abroad and latterly for seven years in Silicon Valley where he enjoyed spectacular growth in the Contract Manufacturing sector. Today he actively participates on several high tech boards and chairs two independent investment boards

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