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MANAGEMENT PROFILES Rakon has a strong management team and expert and must ensure that their products meet or exceed staff across all functions. Three of these individuals are customer expectations for price, performance, quality and profi led below. availability, and meet Rakon’s business objectives. Prior to joining Rakon, Tom was Director of Marketing at Pericom Dr Philip Davies Semiconductor Corporation in San Jose, California. Operations Manager, Rakon UK Limited Philip has 17 years experience in the quartz industry. In “Rakon has developed a culture of innovation that 1991 he started his career as an Engineering Manager for encourages thinking outside-the-box, enabling the a small crystal company in the North West of the UK. This company to off er high performance solutions to customers transferred to Lincoln in 1993 where he was appointed long before its competitors. This not only gives the Programme Manager, and in 1995 the business was company a much more stimulating working environment, acquired by C-MAC. Philip has held various positions it also earns customer loyalty and higher margins. The within the company since this time including production acquisition of the Frequency Control Products division management, engineering management, general of C-MAC MicroTechnology, itself a proven innovative operations, setting up an operation in India, and most technology leader, complements the Rakon strategy and recently he has been Operations Manager for the Harlow culture well, expanding its global presence.” and Lincoln sites, overseeing manufacturing, quality assurance, human resources and engineering. In March Tom holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical 2007 he was appointed Operations Manager for Rakon UK Engineering, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Limited. degree. His graduate business education was completed through a joint program in Chicago and Brussels. Tom “Over the years the Lincoln facility has developed into a enjoys travel and is an enthusiastic distance runner. highly effi cient, cost-conscious manufacturing operation selling our leading edge products into some of the world’s Claude Trialoup largest OEMs and CEMs - our major market is the growth OCXO Marketing Manager, Rakon France SAS market of non-GPS telecommunications. Claude has over 15 years experience in the crystal industry. Claude has worked in the areas of design, experimentation The Harlow Engineering Team has been responsible for and quality management for Matra-Ericsson and Magneti some brilliant new technologies which are genuinely best Marelli, before joining the Argenteuil facility in 1991. Since in their class. For example our Pluto TCXO ASIC produces then he has held positions as Quality Manager, Oscillators phenomenal frequency versus temperature performances, Technical Manager and Applications and Marketing beyond anything anyone else can achieve”. Manager. In 2007 he was appointed OCXO Marketing Manager for Rakon France SAS. Philip holds a BSc and PhD in Physics. Every May Philip removes the dust cover from his Suzuki Bandit 600 and “Working for Rakon is something rather new, but already enjoys riding around the Lincolnshire countryside in the promising for all of us in Europe and really exciting on my sunshine. own side; we now have a combined pool of outstanding resources; technical skills and capabilities, industrial Tom Davidson competencies, process engineering and automisation Product Manager, Rakon Limited (New Zealand) and we can reach more markets & applications. Based on Tom has 25 years experience in the technology fi eld the new confi guration, we can develop and lever new in the US and Canada, including several years in the opportunities.” semiconductor business. He has spent the last 12 years in the frequency control industry, including Motorola Claude holds a Bachelor of Science degree (in Physics & and CTS. Tom and his wife immigrated to New Zealand Measurement Technics), and a Master of Science degree (in from the United States in 2006 and Tom joined Rakon Acoustics) and he speaks French, Italian and English. In his in Auckland as Product Manager for Custom Products spare time Claude enjoys art and culture. in July of the same year. Product Managers at Rakon have overall responsibility for the entire product lifecycle 21 “…the Lincoln facility has developed into a highly effi cient, cost-conscious manufacturing operation selling our leading edge products into some of the world’s largest OEMs and CEMs…” “…the Harlow Engineering Team has been responsible for some brilliant new technologies which are genuinely best in their class”. Dr Philip Davies Operations Manager, Rakon UK Limited “Rakon has developed a culture of innovation that encourages thinking outside-the-box, enabling the company to off er high performance solutions to customers long before its competitors”. Tom Davidson Product Manager, Rakon Limited (New Zealand) “We now have a combined pool of outstanding resources; technical skills and capabilities, industrial competencies, process engineering and automisation. Based on the new confi guration, we can develop and lever new opportunities”. Claude Trialoup OCXO Marketing Manager, Rakon France SAS 22.