eXception PCB are delighted to announce that Salvatore Scarvaci and John Wood have joined eXception PCB to further strengthen its  European Sales Team, reporting into Anne Holden, Commercial and Sales Director

Salvatore has more than 20 years international sales experience having held senior European Sales and Business Development roles with blue chip organisations such as AT&T, NCR and more recently with Mastercard's Prepaid European Division.  Anne Holden said "Salvatore's objective will be to elevate eXception's presence further in Europe and to fuel "new" revenue streams, particularly fromItaly,Poland and the Czech Republic in line with the companies growth plans"

John has over 25 years sales experience working for major UK and International companies such as Exacta, TDS Circuits, Compeq (Taiwan), Circatex, Tyco Microser (Madrid) and more recently Stevenage Circuits 

Anne Holden said "we are excited about John's appointment as he brings a wealth of experience to eXception and will be a significant player in the continuing growth of eXception"

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Mark O'Connor has been promoted to the role of Chief Executive for eXception with immediate effect

Mark joined eXception some 17 months ago, initially in an interim capacity.  For the last year, Mark has been joint Managing Director of both eXception VAR and eXception EMS.  His promotion to Group Chief Executive is a natural progression and sees Mark taking on overall operational responsibility for delivering the exciting growth opportunities available to the Group.  Mark has been instrumental in repositioning the business as a one-stop shop for all our customers' PCB needs, focusing on industry leading service and response levels throughout all our business units

Jon Sopher, Chairman

Claire comes from a Contract Electronics Manufacturing (CEM) background where she has gained valuable experience developing and growing value add business whilst ensuring the customer is provided with excellent customer service.

Mark O’Connor, Managing Director, commented "We are delighted to have Claire join eXception to strengthen the sales team further. Claire will be focusing her time over the coming months developing and building accounts in high end reliability sectors that require the services of quick turn (Fastrack) and medium volume full turn key contract electronic manufacturing"

Claire can be contacted on +44 (0) 1249 810339 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The staff raised £5,000 in sponsorship. Nic Wescombe, Engineer, commented “when we had the initial idea to take part in this event we never imagined we would raise so much money, the Company also donated £2,000 to this worthy cause which was fantastic”

To prepare themselves for the challenge, the employees along with their partners, started training for this event several months ago gradually increasing the distance walked to prepare themselves for the task ahead and to get used to how their feet were going to perform on the day. The walkers ranged from experienced walkers to those that walked from the car to the office!

The first days walk was from Devizes to Pewsey via Alton Barnes then up to Marlborough. On Sunday they went via Hackpen and Broad Town, heading south to Cherhill and finally arriving back at Devizes

"On average it took us 8 hours each day, the weather was glorious, but a bit too warm and humid on Sunday which was ok for those sitting at the finish but not so good for those of us walking as the blisters proved!" commented Jenny Goward, HR Manager “the scenery around that part of Wiltshire is wonderful and the fact we were walking as a team gave us the motivation and encouragement to finish”

Several walkers have already committed to supporting this great cause again next year

Crucial to this achievement was eXception's ongoing investment in technical training and the technical team's innovative in-house design and development of interface cards and associated software.

The full story can be viewed at:

http://www.goepel.com/en/news/newsdetails/article/2011/07/20/exception-integrates-goepel-electronics-boundary-scan-into-teradyne-test-station.html