Aerotech strengthens French and European Sales Team with Gilles Duplessy appointment

Gilles will work closely with Aerotech's French representative channel Optoprim, supporting existing customers and developing new market opportunities for high precision positioning mechanics and advanced motion controls across the broad base of industries and research organisations that Aerotech serves.

Gilles has extensive engineering experience in high precision mechatronics systems and joins Aerotech after 7 years with Newport Corporation where he was the System Business Unit Manager with the France based Micro-Controle/Spectra-Physics division. Gilles Duplessy is already well known to many of our customers and brings an exceptional level of engineering and sales expertise to our French speaking market, says Simon Smith, Aerotech's European Director, Gilles will certainly provide our customers with an improved service for today’s demanding applications in high-throughput manufacturing and cutting-edge research.