SATRA appoints new executive director

16/04/2004

UK technology centre, SATRA, has appointed Austin Simmons as an executive director to cover its quality assurance operation and services.

 

Simmons, who is already head of SATRA’s safety product centre and joined the organisation in 1996, will take a key role in the centre’s strategic forward planning strategy which will run until 2010.

 

He will continue to work as the business manager for SATRA Quality Assurance Ltd and retain overall responsibility for all aspects of safety testing of apparel, footwear and equipment. The operation also covers the management of quality services, the chemical analytical laboratory and SATRA’s global test method services.

 

SATRA chief executive Dr Ron Whittaker said: “I'm delighted that Austin is joining as the fourth member of our executive on SATRA's Board of Directors. It represents appropriate recognition of the successful widening of SATRA's activities in recent years to cover many areas of consumer products.”