Richard Gibbs was appointed as Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1st September 2020.Richard is an experienced director who has led a number of business operations supplying semiconductor, RF and electronics subsystems to the telecoms, aerospace, defence, medical and oil & gas markets. Richard joined Filtronic from Micross Components Ltd, a PE owned company, where he has been Managing Director since 2016.Prior to his time at Micross, Richard spent nine years at E2V Technologies, where he was Group Sales & Marketing Director and President of the RF Product and Hi-Reliability Semiconductors Divisions, and 20 years with Honeywell, of which 10 years were spent managing overseas operations.