BIRMINGHAM, UK, Feb 24, 2015 – More than 450 Delcam staff and representatives of the company’s international sales partners network packed the Cineworld cinema in Solihull on Monday, February 9 to welcome Pete Baxter as Delcam’s new vice president and to hear about his plans for the future of the company.
More than 450 Delcam staff and sales partners packed the Cineworld cinema in Solihull for the opening of the company’s 2015 Sales Partner Meeting
“I am delighted to be joining Delcam as the company prepares for the next phase of its development,” Mr. Baxter told the audience. “I know that Delcam offers industry-leading products and services to manufacturing companies around the world, and that the company’s sales partners have an unrivaled reputation for the support they offer to our customers. I look forward to working with Delcam’s staff and reseller channel to accelerate the growth of the business and to deliver an even better manufacturing experience to our customers.”
Other speakers during the morning included, Bart Simpson, senior commercial director at Delcam and Autodesk’s Buzz Kross, senior vice president, Design, Lifecycle & Simulation, plus two Delcam customers, Tim Geurtjens from MX3D, who presented some of his company’s latest developments in 3D printing, and Wing Commander Andy Green, from the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car project, who updated the delegates on the project’s progress towards setting a new land-speed record of over 1,000 miles per hour.
The delegates then moved to the St. John’s Hotel in Solihull for the three days of commercial and technical presentations. These included demonstrations of the latest results from Delcam’s development team, the largest in the CAM industry.
About Delcam
Delcam is one of the world’s leading suppliers of CAM software and associated services, and also supplies systems for product design, tooling design, reverse engineering and inspection. The company has grown steadily since being founded formally in 1977, after initial development work at Cambridge University led by the late Donald Welbourn. It is now among the largest developers of product design and manufacturing software in the UK, with subsidiaries in America, Europe and Asia. Over 330 people are employed at Delcam’s Birmingham headquarters, with almost 400 staff working in the company’s overseas subsidiaries and around 200 more in its international joint ventures.
Delcam’s software and services help manufacturing companies to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce lead times. The company’s software is used in over 90 countries by more than 45,000 organizations. These customers range from multi-national corporations to independent designers, toolmakers and sub-contractors, and come from a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, electrical appliances, footwear, healthcare, motor sport, packaging, toys, sports equipment, jewellery and signmaking. On February 6, 2014, Delcam was acquired by Autodesk and now operates as a wholly-owned, independently-operated subsidiary.
For further information, please visit www.delcam.com.