Publisher Eric Miscoll has over 20 years of electronics manufacturing industry experience as a researcher, consultant, and senior manager. Eric’s career in EMS began in 1998 as Senior Consultant and Chief Operating Officer of Technology Forecasters, Inc., the leading strategic consulting firm focused solely on the outsourced electronics manufacturing industry. While there he launched the Quarterly Forum for Electronics Manufacturing Outsourcing and Supply Chain, and oversaw numerous business intelligence and industry forecasting programs.
Eric’s subsequent experience includes several years with Texas Prototypes as VP/GM of its PCB Design and Assembly division, and Managing Principal of Charlie Barnhart & Associates, supporting Charlie’s Outsourcing Navigator Tools and Methodologies.
Jennifer Read, Editor
Jennifer Read comes with another set of business analyst and editorial skills. She was an editor and writer of countless industry articles covering supply chain and the EMS industry from the mid-1980s. She was trained as an attorney and practiced law in Colorado; she served as director of marketing communications at Avnet Electronics Marketing; and joined Eric at Technology Forecasters and Charlie Barnhart & Associates as interviewer, co- writer and editor of reports such as Beyond Outsourcing, EMS Industry in South America, and Next Horizons in Outsourcing.
Bottom line: we know the EMS industry!
