CyberOptics Names VP of Global Sales and Marketing

CyberOptics Corporation, a provider of SMT inspection solutions, announces the promotion of Dennis Rutherford to Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing.

In his new position, Rutherford will focus on fine tuning the CyberOptics inspection systems business unit sales and marketing efforts. His immediate tasks are to successfully launch the new SE500 SPI to the market, and to develop an effective global sales and marketing strategy that will lead the company to its growth and profitability goals.

"I am excited to have this opportunity to lead CyberOptics’ global sales and marketing efforts. CyberOptics has been investing heavily in new products during the downturn and has successfully transitioned its Systems Business Unit manufacturing and R&D to Singapore over the past year. These efforts along with more new products in the pipeline will position CyberOptics well as we move into an upturn cycle of the industry,” said Rutherford.

Rutherford has been with CyberOptics for more than eight years. His previous role at the company was as Director of Sales in Asia, where he was responsible for CyberOptics’ Asia sales, applications, and customer service and support at the Shanghai and Singapore locations. Prior to his career at CyberOptics, he was the Asia Sales Director for Entegris a semiconductor related company, where he was based in Minnesota, USA and Tokyo, Japan.

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