TTTech, the leading supplier of dependable networking solutions based on time-triggered technology, appointed Kevin Wright as its Executive Vice President of TTTech North America, Inc., effective May 1, 2010. Wright also takes responsibility for TTTech Group’s global activities in the aerospace industry.
Mr. Wright was most recently Senior Vice President of Strategy, Sales and Marketing for Meggitt Control Systems, a $400M business unit of Meggitt PLC. Prior to that, he was responsible for sales and marketing at Crane Aerospace. He started his career in the aerospace industry over 30 years ago with Lucas Aerospace in the UK, working on engine controls. He subsequently moved to the US as part of the Lucas flight test team based in Seattle, Washington, and progressed through a series of career moves involving increasing responsibility, covering program management, engineering leadership, and sales and marketing.
“I am very excited to join the TTTech team. I believe that the products, technology and capabilities the company has complement the needs of the aerospace, and other, key markets. We can really do great things in the global aerospace market, and we have started to demonstrate we have the right products at the right time. Now we have to build, deliver and grow,” says Kevin Wright about his assignment.
TTTech Group, headquartered in Vienna, incorporated TTTech North America, Inc. in 2000. The company moved to Carlsbad, California in 2009. The office in southern California enables the company to further TTTech’s customer-focused approach, work more closely with local customers, and respond to their needs quickly.
Georg Kopetz, Managing Director and one of the founders of TTTech states, "We are very pleased to have Kevin Wright join TTTech. As a highly customer-focused senior aerospace executive with extensive experience in marketing and sales, and a strong engineering background, Kevin brings competence to TTTech that is perfectly suited to help guide us through continued growth and expansion in the aerospace industry, both in the commercial and the defense business areas."
Mr. Wright has an honours degree in electronics engineering from Nottingham University and lives in Los Angeles, California with his family.
