IQE Cardiff takes on a new General Manager
IQE plc. has appointed Eliot Parkinson as General Manager. Eliot Parkinson, IQE Cardiff's new General Manager Parkinson will take over from Adrian Meldrum, who has been acting as interim General Manager alongside his role as Group Business Development Director. Eliot Parkinson has more than 16 years of manufacturing experience in operations leadership & management roles within the semiconductor industry and joins IQE from International Rectifier (UK) where he held the position of Manufacturing Director. He has also previously held a number of manufacturing and operational management roles at Intel’s IC fabrication plant in Ireland after serving twelve years as an aircraft propulsion systems engineer with the Royal Air Force. Adrian Meldrum, IQE’s Business Development Director, says, "Eliot brings a wealth of hands-on, manufacturing management experience to the Group’s Cardiff operation." Parkinson holds a B.Sc. and a Post Graduate Professional Diploma in Management and is also studying part time for an MBA.