Pickering Interfaces Hires New UK & Ireland Sales Manager

Clacton-on-Sea, England – 2 October 2006: Pickering Interfaces today announced the appointment of Nick Hickford as their sales manager for the UK and Ireland. The recruitment is part of Pickering’s on-going plans to improve customer contact and raise market awareness of their industry-leading products.

"Nick’s extensive industry experience will be invaluable as we introduce new products and address new markets. His knowledge of the UK & Ireland test & measurement market will improve our ability to pro-actively address the needs of our customers.” said Keith Moore, Managing Director of Pickering Interfaces.

Nick has over 25 years experience in the electronics test industry, and his career includes managing sales to the UK and Ireland, global EMS providers and Northern European third-party distribution channels for both GenRad and Teradyne.

Nick can be reached at nick.hickford@pickeringtest.com.

About Pickering Interfaces
Pickering Interfaces is a market innovator in signal switching and conditioning for a broad range of applications and architectures, with the largest range of switching cards in the industry for PXI, LXI, PCI, VXI and GPIB. Pickering Interfaces provides solutions for both commercial and military applications. In addition, Pickering’s range of instrumentation provides innovative test solutions to users and integrators of modular test systems. Pickering Interfaces operate globally with direct operations in the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, France and Czech Republic together with additional representation in countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

For more information on Pickering Interfaces, visit our web site at www.pickeringtest.com.