Mario Boltri

Director of International Marketing in the 90's specializing in International Offset transactions for major aerospace company for 15 years.

Past decade, involved with Electronics Manufacturing Services with concetration on contract manufacturing in the electronics industry and more recently with Electric Vehicles technology from Italy, Norway, UK on behalf of Alco Electronics Ltd.

Specialties Licensing agreements, non disclosure agreements, indemnification agreements, communication with major domestic and international companies, liaison with government entities at all levels, negotiatiations with business and governmental agencies

EMS companies I have worked with

Several ...

The skills I often see lacking in the EMS industry today

Inability to support products from inception to customer support

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

Several EMS companies are too large to be effective

What I think about low-cost manufacturing

Good to a point, but I prefer to be associated with companies that are not necessarely low cost.

If I could travel back in time and witness any event one would be

The emergence of personal computers

Some of the countries I have visited for work or play

about 30 countries ... notably China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, France, England, Norway, Italy, Greece, etc.

A helpful travel tip I often use

Study the country and its people before setting foot on their land

The ultimate consumer electronics product I would still like to see developed

hands free automobile

A favorite electronics gadget

smart phone