What Happened?
San Jose, CA-based Flextronics has Promoted Erik H. Volkerink as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
At Flextronics, impossible is where breakthrough begins. As a socially-responsible, global leader in design, manufacturing, distribution and aftermarket services, Flextronics is unique in its ability to provide end-to-end solutions through its innovative and proprietary systems — all to enhance customer competitiveness and success. Working across four business groups and several business units, Flextronics is able to unleash the full potential of the world’s most valuable brands and new ventures. What Flextronics creates is value. By increasing speed to market and driving competitive positioning for customers, Flextronics in essence solves customers’ most challenging problems better, faster and more cost effectively than any other company. Flextronics is able to manage big data in a way that allows for trending in market environments that are in flux, allowing the Company to provide solutions for customers, often before a challenge is ever realized. Flextronics is unique in the depth, breadth and scope of the Company. With an unmatched global presence, customers are supported with unprecedented speed in product ramp-up, delivery, and the ability to manage volume regardless of complexity or product mix. Leveraging state-of-the-art LEAN practices, Six Sigma, key investments in infrastructure and FlexQ, a proprietary quality program that is beyond leading edge according to customers, Flextronics is the market leader in almost every business in which it operates. Whether high mix/low volume or low mix/high volume, Flextronics can enable any customer`s success. At Flextronics, there is no room for “mediocrity.” If anything, the Company exists to continually test the bounds of what can be expected in terms of designs and processes. Optimization is what Flextronics does best. People make the difference. People with passion have an even greater impact. The Flextronics team spans more than 30 countries and four continents, and has a global workforce of 200,000. Each member of the team is dedicated to enabling customer success. That is achieved through intense collaboration, passionate customer focus, thoughtful and disciplined execution, a tenacious commitment to continuous improvement and a relentless drive to win. Culture is the most important sustainable, competitive advantage of any company. The Flextronics culture is built on commitment — to customers, employees, the communities in which it operates and the environment. Flextronics is a global leader in non-profit/for-profit partnership, providing assistance in the places around the world that need it most. The Flextronics Foundation provides assistance in the areas of natural disaster relief, human rights and educational opportunities. Culture drives every aspect of the Company’s success. The culture and business model work hand-in-hand to ensure simplicity, flexibility and above all — sustainability.
About the Person
Erik H. Volkerink is the chief technology officer at Flextronics, which is a $24B, industry-leading, Fortune Global 500 end-to-end supply chain solutions company with a global workforce of 200,000 and operations in over 30 countries. In this role, he is responsible for managing Flextronics’ global technology portfolio as well as expanding and further developing the Company’s global design and engineering business. With approximately 3,000 engineers, this business helps customers create products efficiently, competitively and timely, leveraging the Company’s scale of capabilities, components and platforms worldwide. Prior to his current role, Dr. Volkerink served as Flextronics’ vice president of design and engineering for the Industrial and Emerging Industries business group. Before joining Flextronics, Dr. Volkerink served as chief technology officer and vice president of global technology, research and innovation, Advantest Americas (NYSE: ATE). Advantest designs and manufactures semiconductor and component test products, including products for memory, system-on-a-chip, LCD and car electronics, peripherals such as handlers, device interfaces and nano-technology products. Previously, Dr. Volkerink was chief technology officer at Verigy. Dr. Volkerink served as a consulting professor at Stanford University where he led research in design-for-manufacturability techniques in collaboration with industry partners. He also served as chair of the Cost of Test section of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) and the IEEE International Test Conference. Dr. Volkerink served as an associate partner of Point One Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm in The Netherlands with a focus on nanotechnology and embedded systems including semiconductors, embedded software, mechatronics and photonics. He is the founder of ATE Vision, the premier conference in the area of automated test equipment sponsored by IEEE and SEMI and two time winner of the most successful IEEE/TTTC event award. He also founded the Dutch School Silicon Valley, a non-profit foreign language school in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Volkerink holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University, a master’s degree in business administration from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master’s degree in control engineering from the University of Twente in The Netherlands.
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