afdec industry networking dinners

We have enjoyed the contributions of the following speakers at our regular dinners: 


Leon Simons Author of "Basic Arts of Financial Management" 8/6/78
M. Rodd Presenter of BBC Tomorrows World 19/9/78


D.H. Roberts Plessey Company Ltd. 1/1/79
Jock Shaw Intel Corporation Europe 17/5/79
R. Woolnough Electronics Weekly 4/10/79
A.Cadman - 6/12/79


Ivor Cohen  M.D. Mullard Ltd. 15/5/80
Christopher Martin-Jenkins Cricketer 15/1/81
Ken Walton Director ITT 21/5/81


G.Yardley Newey & Eyre Group 11/3/82
G.C. Pope BICC Group Director 24/6/82
D.Godwin Cazenove & Co. (Stockbrokers) 23/9/82


R.Attwool M.D. Texas Instruments 20/1/83
Toby Mack NEDA 9/6/83
Cecil Young BS9000 Systems Co-ordinator 22/9/83


Dedy Saban Motorola Semiconductors 26/1/84
M.Penn Dataquest 29/3/84
Evan Steadman Evan Steadman Communications 6/12/84
R.S.B. Luckman STC Components Ltd. 14/6/84


Mr. Foxell British Telecom 21/3/85
A. Golding Robert Fleming 11/7/85
Jim Duckworth Hitachi 3/10/85


Jacques Noels Thomson Components 16/1/86
David Boswell Surface Electronics 17/4/86
John E. Herrin Crystalate Holdings PLC 12/6/86
Frederic Herzer Motorola European Semi. Div. 25/9/86


Norman Merritt M.O.D. 22/1/87
D. Sach Investors In Industry 9/4/87
Marco Landi Director Texas Instruments (Eurp.Mk) 18/6/87
S.P. Kaufman Arrow Electronics 24/9/87


D.Dunn Plessey Semiconductors 21/1/88
Peter Smitham Schroder Ventures 28/4/88
Marshall Butler AVX Corp. 16/6/88
Waldo Thorn SGS Thomson Microelectronics 22/9/88


Mr. D. Stevenson INMOS 19/1/89
David Kynaston Philips Components 27/4/89
The Hon. Rocco Forte Trusthouse Forte 22/6/89
Mr.M. Speed Chairman IPS 21/9/89


Mr. E.J. Merrett AB Electronic Products Group 18/1/90
Mick Elliott Electronics Weekly 5/4/90
Bernard Friry Texas Instruments 14/6/90
Mr. D. Oram Murata 20/9/90


Maggie Crowther Philips Components 17/1/91
Mike Alderson ECIF 21/3/91
Brandon Barnwell Amphenol 13/6/91
Neill Irwin ICL 26/9/91


Steve Poole Intel Corporation 16/1/92
Damon de Laszlo Harwin Engineers 19/3/92
Akio Kondo Sony 11/6/92
Richard Alderson Edge & Ellison 17/9/92


John Gillett IBM UK Ltd. 21/1/93
Sir Ivor Cohen - 8/3/93
Kevin T. Dunnigan Thomas & Betts (USA) 10/6/93
Mr. Bob Giddy NEC Electronics 16/9/93


Mr. Doug Dunn Philips Semiconductors (N.lands) 27/1/94
Mr. Jim Duckworth Hitachi Europe 20/4/94
Mr. David Pratt Solectron Scotland Ltd. 30/6/94
Mr. Cliff Marks National Semiconductor 29/9/94


Mr. Harry Tee Roxboro Group plc 26/1/95
Mr. Alan Gordon AVX Ltd. 4/4/95
Mr. Simon Carter Quantel 22/6/95
Mr. Rob Cragg Molex Europe 28/9/95


Mr. Wil Adriaans Philips Semiconductors 18/1/96 (did not turn up)
Mr. Wim Teunissen Sonepar Electronics 18/4/96
Mr. Nigel Toon Altera Europe 20/6/96
Mr. Hans Nilsson Flextronics International 10/10/96


Mr. Brian Putland Papst 30/1/97
Mr. Richard Wood Harting Elektronik 10/4/97
Mr.Jim Eastlake Dataquest Europe 3/7/97
Mr. David Winter Philips Components 16/10/97


Mr. John Grieve New Scotland Yard 22/1/98
Mr. Evan Steadman ECIF 30/4/98
Mr.Indro Mukerjee - Philips Semiconductors Europe 2/7/98
Mr. Darrell Mayeux - Fairchild Semiconductor USA 1/10/98


Mr.Dick Skipworth - MEMEC 21/1/99
Mr. Bryan Rooney - Burr Brown - USA 22/4/99
Mr. Fred Krehbiel - Molex - USA 24/6/99
Mr. Humphrey Porter Flextronics - Austuria 7/10/99


Stuart Clark - STM UK 20/1/2000
Roy Vallee - AVNET (30th Anniversary) 13/4/2000
Sir Robin Saxby - Chairman and CEO ARM Holdings 8/6/2000
Harriet Green - Arrow Contract Manf. Ser. USA 12/10/2000


Mike Short - BT Wireless 25/1/2001
John Hirst - Premier Farnell 25/4/2001
Dietmar Harting - Hailing Group (Germany) 5/7/2001
John Harlow - Arrow Marketing Arrow/Asia Pacific 11/10/2001


Patrick J. Brockett Zarlink Semiconductor 24/1/2002
Martin Kent Abacus Group 18/4/2002
Lee Nye Omron Electronic Components 4/7/2002
Dr. Chris McArdle Managing Director, Innotec 10/10/2002


Roger Banks iSuppli 23/1/2003
Mick Elliott Reed Electronics 3/4/2003
Craig Conrad TTI 10/6/2003
Wes Sagawa Arrow Electronics Inc. 16/10/2003
Ollie Althorpe STMicroelectronics Ltd. 29/1/2004

Silu Ali, DTI. 1/4/2004

Andy Allen, Plexus 25/5/04

Dan Casey, Future Electronics 13/1/05

David Ashworth, MEMEC 10/5/05

David Kynaston, 27/10/05

Martin Kent, Abacus Group plc, 16/2/2006

Nigel Watts, Spectrum Electronics Group, Europe, 9/5/2006

Fred Knowles, Future Electronics, 7/9/2006

Nigel Blakeway, OMRON Electronic Components, 8/2/2007

Malcolm Penn, Future Horizons, 15/5/2007

James Lewis, Bac2, 20/9/2007

Trevor Baylis OBE, Trevor Baylis Brands, 6/2/2008

Mirth Control, Comedy Club, 12/6/2008