July 2009

CEVA Logistics announces new COO

CEVA Logistics, one of the world’s leading supply chain management companies, has announced the appointment of Matthew Ryan in the newly created role as Chief Operating Officer. This role will focus on ensuring CEVA continues to provide industry leading operational and supply chain service excellence.

Until last year Mr Ryan was Executive VP of World Wide Operations and Logistics at Flextronics International, having spent 15 years as part of a management team that built one of the world’s largest Electronics Contract Manufacturing Service companies. Since 1995, Mr Ryan held numerous operational, supply chain and customer management roles with Flextronics. As COO at CEVA, he will help galvanize and integrate all the operational, “bottom line” elements of the global business and will assume overall responsibility for the FM network, global procurement and the Global Operations team.

“Matt brings to CEVA a wealth of operational, supply chain and service focused experience with nearly 20 years in the highly competitive and dynamic environment of global electronics manufacturing and distribution. He has a well deserved reputation for establishing and leading world class, global operations – covering more than 20 countries and four continents”, explained John Pattullo, CEO, CEVA Logistics. Matt will join the company on 3 August and be based at the Company’s head office in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands.

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