Jabil's Daniel Gamota Earns Industry Leadership Award For Driving Awareness of Flexible Hybrid and Printed Electronics
Posted March 08, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jabil Circuit, Inc. (NYSE:JBL) announced today that Daniel "Dan" Gamota, Ph.D., Jabil vice president of Strategic Capabilities for the company's Engineering & Technology Services organization, has won the inaugural FLEXI Industry Leadership Award from FlexTech Alliance. This new award honors individuals who have demonstrated outstanding dedication to driving awareness of advanced flexible hybrid electronics.
Flexible hybrid electronics encompasses a portfolio of technologies, e.g. printed electronics, flexible substrates, stretchable substrates, roll-to-roll processes, and ultra-thin bare integrated circuits (ICs), which can be combined to realize novel products offering unique functionality. As an example, flexible hybrid electronics enable the integration of thin silicon ICs, sensing elements, communications and power components on flexible/stretchable materials to realize wearable products that can monitor a person's heart rate, blood, sweat, and tears for point-of-care diagnosis.
"Jabil is committed to its leadership position in advanced flexible hybrid electronics, and we are very proud to see Dan earn this important recognition for the caliber of his work here and for the electronics industry at large," said Bill Muir, Jabil's Chief Operating Officer. "Dan's powerful combination of vision, strategic development and education has played a singular role in progressing and expanding the sophistication of this field. It is talented, dedicated leaders like Dan, together with our state-of-the-art capabilities for technological innovation, that enable Jabil to deliver world-class design and manufacturing solutions to our customers."
Gamota has devoted significant effort to establish and advance the flexible hybrid electronics industry through strategic roadmap development activities and standards work, including organizations such as International Electrotechnical Commission, IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries, International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Agency for Science, Technology & Research, as well as the World Technology Evaluation Center panel at the National Science Foundation. Gamota is a recognized thought leader in the fields of manufacturing, microelectronics, nanotechnology and flexible electronics, for which he was named an IEEE Fellow. With 47 U.S. patents to his name, Gamota is an established innovator with deep appreciation for intellectual property and innovations portfolio development, valuation and licensing.
In his role at Jabil, he is responsible for the company's strategic technical capability development, as well as industrializing and transferring scalable manufacturing processes for medical, industrial, energy, consumer, aerospace, automotive and defense products to high-volume production sites.
"No one person could have much success without the cooperation of others in the emergence of a disruptive technology such as flexible hybrid electronics," Gamota said during his acceptance speech. "It has been a great pleasure in working with many of you in the advancement of the technology and the products they spawn."
The FLEXI awards, now in their ninth year, comprise the categories of Innovation, Research & Development, Leadership in Education, and now, Industry Leadership, were given on March 3.
About FlexTech Alliance
FlexTech, a SEMI Strategic Association Partner, is focused on growth, profitability, and success throughout the manufacturing and distribution chain of flexible, printed electronics, by developing solutions for advancing these technologies from R&D to commercialization. Visit www.flextech.org.
About Jabil
Jabil is an electronic product solutions company providing comprehensive electronics design, production and product management services to global electronics and technology companies. Offering complete product supply chain management from facilities in 28 countries, Jabil provides comprehensive, individualized-focused solutions to customers in a broad range of industries. Jabil common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, "JBL". Further information is available on Jabil's website.
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