FARO Names Jim West as Chief Technology Officer
15 January 2008 - 7:56AM
PR Newswire (US)
LAKE MARY, Fla., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:FARO), the world leader in portable
computer-aided measurement hardware and software, announced it has
named Jim West as its Chief Technology Officer. "This completes the
engineering succession plan I announced last year when Jim was
promoted to Senior Vice President of Integrated Engineering," FARO
President and CEO Jay Freeland said. "He has been integral in
re-aligning our engineering personnel, systems and processes
globally. Jim's technical knowledge and leadership ability have
provided a solid foundation for our R&D team as we continue to
grow our business." In addition to West's existing responsibilities
of leading the day-to-day activities of the worldwide engineering
and R&D teams, he will now also be responsible for guiding the
company's overall technology direction. West's technical acumen
comes in part from his extensive engineering background -- at age
17 he was a co-op student with the GM Technical Center's
Manufacturing Staff, and also pioneered advanced manufacturing
systems using machine vision and robotics. He was also chosen for
his entrepreneurial spirit. West was a co-founder of Perceptron, a
leader in laser-based vision gauging within the automotive
industry. He came to FARO through the acquisition of SMX in 2002
where he was Executive Vice President of Engineering and Co-COO.
West was later promoted to Senior Vice President and General
Manager for FARO's Laser Division. His new title will be Senior
Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. "Jim's
increased responsibility as CTO signifies the importance of
technology to our Company and the value of his leadership within
the organization," Freeland concluded. About FARO With more than
14,600 installations and 7,000 customers globally, FARO
Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets portable,
computerized measurement devices and software used to create
digital models -- or to perform evaluations against an existing
model -- for anything requiring highly detailed 3-D measurements,
including part and assembly inspection, factory planning and asset
documentation, as well as specialized applications ranging from
surveying, recreating accident sites and crime scenes to digitally
preserving historical sites. FARO's technology increases
productivity by dramatically reducing the amount of on-site
measuring time, and the various industry-specific software packages
enable users to process and present their results quickly and more
effectively. Principal products include the world's best-selling
portable measurement arm -- the FaroArm; the world's best-selling
laser tracker -- the FARO Laser Tracker; the FARO Laser ScanArm;
FARO Laser Scanner LS; the FARO Gage, Gage-PLUS and PowerGAGE; and
the CAM2 family of advanced CAD-based measurement and reporting
software. FARO Technologies is ISO-9001 certified and ISO-17025
laboratory registered. Learn more at http://www.faro.com/
DATASOURCE: FARO Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Darin Sahler, Global
PR Manager, of FARO Technologies, Inc., +1-407-333-9911, Web site:
http://www.faro.com/
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