At the SMART 25th Anniversary Conference, Peter Swanson, Honorary Life Vice President presented ten SMART Fellowships with the following
address: 
 
"SMART Fellowships are awarded to individuals to thank them for their active past year.

Importantly, the list includes SMART members who are regular attendees or extraordinary contributors to the association's seminars, forums and events. They do not have to be a committee member to be a valued SMART participant. Being a regular attendee, asking questions or using the benefits of membership are just as important. These activities inspire the spread of technology throughout the member's company, The SMART Group and the industry itself.
 
We started SMART Fellowships in 1998. As in past years, I asked for nominations from all SMART Committee members, and also from the membership at large. After the nominations were received, the Fellowships were voted upon by the Steering Committee and Directors of SMART Group. You cannot receive this award twice.

This year there are ten Fellows:

Peter Allgood - Allgood Technology Ltd Iain Braddock - MBDA UK Ltd Steve Eglinton - PEM Professional Electronic Manufacturing, South Africa Ingmar Grewar - PEM Professional Electronic Manufacturing, South Africa Chris Hunt - NPL National Physical Laboratory Naim Kapadia - JJS Electronics Ltd David Llewellyn - DEK Martin Tarr - SMART Group Scotland Rex Waygood - Hansatech EMS Ltd

Peter, Iain and Rex are all fantastic contributors to and attendees of our events and forums. Chris and Naim are long term and dutiful members of our Technical Committee. Steve and Ingmar have been heavily involved in the establishing of SMART Group SA. David is retiring from DEK having served 35 years in the industry and a SMART supporter since the beginning. Martin, before he retired recently, threw enormous energy into activities with SMART Group Scotland. We congratulate them all.

SMART Fellowships cannot be awarded to the Steering Committee members, as they do the selection. Nevertheless, they are highly sought after by the Steering Committee guys, and no-one is more vocal about it than our Chairman, Keith Bryant, to whom I am proud to present a special, SMART Bellow award!

Actually, with his firm leadership of the Group through the recession, his energy and vision in establishing SMART Group South Africa, and his long-term commitment to SMART, there are few more deserving of our tenth SMART Fellowship this year."



Those present to receive their awards were L to R: 
Keith Bryant-Chairman; Peter Swanson-Honorary Life Vice President (presenting Awards); Martin Tarr-SMART Group Scotland; Naim Kapadia-JJS Electronics; Chris Hunt-NPL; Rex Waygood-Hansatech EMS; Ian Braddock-MBDA UK.

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