George Szymkiewicz

Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications at Avago Technologies for the past five years.

During the previous 15 years, founded and ran three start-ups including an e-commerce company selling ergonomic computer products called Safe Computing and a web design/web applications development company called Miranet Inc.

Before that, worked in sales management at Memorex for 10 years.

BA from San Francisco State University and MBA from St. Mary's College

What I think about Foxconn

Valued customer.

EMS companies I have worked with

Flextronics (by marriage)

What I think about some of the emerging EMS markets or regions

I'm optimistic America will re-acquire manufacturing expertise and the re-shoring will gain momentum in the low volume - high value markets. Thus, reducing time to market.

One of my favorite quotes

Block, tackle or stand aside

Some of the countries I have visited for work or play

Mexico, Spain, England, Italy, Germany, France, Turkey, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan.

A helpful travel tip I often use

I like using Fly Right Jet Lag supplements and exercise at the hotel to adapt quickly

A favorite electronics gadget

My Smartphone - currently the Motorola Droid II World Edition

One of my favorite toys as a child

small 2 " plastic soldiers.