FARO Confirms Jay Freeland as Chief Executive Officer
December 04 2006 - 3:05PM
PR Newswire (US)
LAKE MARY, Fla., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:FARO), the world's single source for a
complete line of portable CAM2 solutions, announced today that Jay
W. Freeland will become President and Chief Executive Officer
effective immediately. Mr. Freeland has been serving as President
and Co-CEO since January 2006 and was previously President and
Chief Operating Officer since November 2004. He is also a member of
the Company's Board of Directors. Simon Raab, who has been serving
as Chairman and Co-CEO since January 2006 and as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer since co-founding the company in 1982, will
remain on the Board of Directors as non- Executive Chairman. The
transition is consistent with the Company's previously announced
succession plan. "Simon's leadership drove FARO's success over the
last twenty-four years," Mr. Freeland said. "His contributions to
the Company have been vital, and he will remain an important
advisor and resource to both me and the Board. I am confident in my
ability to execute the mission and vision I have communicated for
FARO at the beginning of the year and continuing our long history
of profitable growth as the world's leading three-dimensional
measurement company." "I look forward to continuing my relationship
with FARO," said Mr. Raab, adding, "I have enjoyed working with Jay
over the years, and I have the utmost confidence in his ability to
lead FARO in its next phase of growth." About FARO With more than
13,000 installations and 5,700 customers globally, FARO
Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets portable,
computerized measurement devices and software used to create
digital models -- or to perform evaluations against an existing
model -- for anything requiring highly detailed 3-D measurements,
including part and assembly inspection, factory planning and asset
documentation, as well as specialized applications ranging from
surveying, recreating accident sites and crime scenes to digitally
preserving historical sites. FARO's technology increases
productivity by dramatically reducing the amount of on-site
measuring time, and the various industry-specific software packages
enable users to process and present their results quickly and more
effectively. Principal products include the world's best-selling
portable measurement arm -- the FaroArm; the world's best-selling
laser tracker -- the FARO Laser Tracker X and Xi; the FARO Laser
ScanArm; FARO Laser Scanner LS; the FARO Gage, Gage-PLUS and
PowerGAGE; and the CAM2 family of advanced CAD-based measurement
and reporting software. FARO Technologies is ISO-9001 certified and
ISO-17025 laboratory registered. Learn more at http://www.faro.com/
DATASOURCE: FARO Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Darin Sahler, Global
PR Manager of FARO Technologies, Inc., +1-407-333-9911, or Web
site: http://www.faro.com/
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