Flextronics International Ltd. (simply known as Flextronics or Flex) is a Singaporean electronics manufacturing services provider that offers services to original equipment manufacturers (OEM). It also provides supporting supply chain services, including packaging and transportation throughout the world, as well as design and after-sales. Flextronics in 2011 was ranked, according to CircuitsAssembly.com, ^[1] as the second global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) by revenue.

The company offers manufacturing and design services within several markets including automotive, computing, consumer, industrial, infrastructure, medical and mobile. In addition, the company operates five branded business units — Multek, a provider of multi-layer printed and flexible circuit boards, interconnect technologies and complex displays; Vista Point Technologies (VPT), which offers camera modules for use in consumer devices and mobile phones; Global Services, which focuses on logistics, reverse logistics and repair operations; FlexPower, a provider of semi-custom and custom power supplies and battery chargers; and Retail Technical Services, a field services organization for customer operations.

Flextronics has manufacturing operations in over 30 countries, totaling approximately 27.2 million square feet (as of March 2009).

History[link]

On June 4, 2007, Flextronics offered to purchase Solectron for US$3.6 billion and thus making Solectron a subsidiary of Flextronics. The acquisition of Solectron was completed by end of October 2007, earlier than anticipated.

On March 18, 2009, Flextronics was invited to ring the NASDAQ stock market opening bell, signifying the day’s start of trading and celebrated 15 year NASDAQ-listed anniversary. Mike McNamara (CEO) and a group of top executives represented the company at the ringing of the bell.^{[citation needed]}

On August 25, 2009, Flextronics announced that it was chosen by LG Electronics (LGE), a global provider of advanced digital products and applied technologies, to manufacture 19, 22, 26, 32, and 37-inch LCD television receivers at its Juarez, Mexico facility for distribution to the North and South American markets.^[2]

On September 2, 2009, Flextronics announced that Multek received Danaher Test and Measurement's 2009 Outstanding Supplier Award. The award was given based on quality, delivery performance, engineering support and cost for work with two of Danaher's business units, Tektronix and Fluke.^[3]

On September 15, 2010, Flextronics announced that it had been chosen by Brammo, Inc., a global leader in the electric motorcycle business, to be its manufacturing partner for the production and distribution of plug-in electric motorcycles and components. The partnership represented an expansion of Flextronics' Automotive Division's portfolio for battery powered vehicles and complemented its expertise in high voltage and energy recuperation for the automotive market.^[4]

Timeline[link]

• 1969: Founded in Silicon Valley as Flextronics, Inc., by Joe McKenzie.
• 1980: Sold to Bob Todd, Joe Sullivan, and Jack Watts as the new owners. Todd became CEO.
• 1981: Becomes the first U.S. manufacturer to go offshore by setting up a manufacturing facility in Singapore.
• 1987: Went public.
• 1990: Return to private in a leveraged buyout and is reorganized as Flextronics International, Ltd., with Singapore as its new base.
• 1993: Received venture capital funding through Sequoia Capital.^[5]
• 1994: Went public for the second time. Michael Marks became CEO in January 1994.
• 1996: Closed its contract electronic manufacturing plant in Richardson, Texas. Acquired two companies in Hong Kong, the Astron Group and FICO Plastics, Ltd., and the Ericsson Business Networks production facility in Karlskrona, Sweden.
• 1998: Annual revenue surpasses $1 billion in fiscal 1998 ending March 31, 1998.
• 2000: Ranked third on Industry Week's list of "100 Best-Managed Companies".
• 2005: Bought out the manufacturing division of Nortel Networks.
• 2007: Purchased Solectron.
• 2008: $16-billion global electronics manufacturing services provider.
• 2009: Entered the solar industry.
• 2010: Agreement with Lenovo to provide manufacturing for Europe.
• 2010: Agreement with Brammo to provide acquisition and manufacturing in North America, Asia, and Europe.^[6]
• 2011: Flextronics to provide electromechanical design services to CSP developer eSolar.^[7]
• 2012: Flextronics agrees to sell Vista Point Technologies camera module business subsidiary to DigitalOptics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies.^[8]

Customers[link]

Since 2005, Flextronics has a contract from Microsoft to build the Zune,^[9] Xbox^[10] and Xbox 360.^[11]

After a series of losses, the LEGO Group contracted most of their production capabilities to Flextronics.^[12]

As of January 2010, Flextronics' largest customers include Cisco Systems (consumer electronics products), Eastman Kodak (digital cameras and self-service kiosks), Ericsson Telecom AB (business telecommunications systems and GSM infrastructure), Hewlett-Packard (inkjet printers and storage devices), Microsoft (computer peripherals and consumer electronics gaming products), Motorola (cellular phones and telecommunications infrastructure), Research in Motion (RIM) (smartphones and other mobile communication devices), Sony-Ericsson (cellular phones), Lenovo (commercial desktops, server and workstation products), Dell Computer Corporation (AC adapters for portable computers), Western Digital (hard drives), and Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems) (network computing infrastructure products).^[13] Their RTS division is also contracted by Verizon Wireless for in-store technical support services^{[14] [15]}

In July 2011 former Flextronics' senior director pleaded guilty in insider probe on selling information about Apple's iPhone 4, supplies materials of which for manufacturing is partially coordinated by the company. [1]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Multek Website
• Vista Point Technologies Website
• EMS Research On Flextronics By iSuppli
• EMS News
• Flextronics SBS Website

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Mike Conway
Mike Conway at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Bump Day for the 2009 Indianapolis 500.
Nationality	British
Born	(1983-08-19) August 19, 1983 (age 28) Bromley, Kent (England)
2012 IndyCar Series
Debut season	2009
Current team	A. J. Foyt Enterprises
Car no.	14
Former teams	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (2009-2010) Andretti Autosport (2011)
Starts	23
Wins	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	17th in 2009, 2011
Previous series
2001 2001 2002 2003-04 2003 2005-06 2006-08	UK FFord Winter Series UK Junior FFord UK FFord Championship Formula Renault UK Formula Renault UK Winter Series British F3 Championship GP2 Series
Championship titles
2004 2006	Formula Renault UK Champion British F3 Champion
Awards
2006	National Driver of the Year

Mike Conway, born 19 August 1983, is a British racing driver. He lives in Sevenoaks, Kent and is currently competing in the IZOD IndyCar Series.

Biography[link]

Conway who was born in Bromley, Kent, England attended Sevenoaks Prep School from 1986 to 1996.

Karting to F3[link]

Like many racing drivers, he started karting at the age of eight at Rye House in Hertfordshire. After that, he went on to be the Formula A British Karting Champion, race in Formula Ford with Van Diemen, become the Formula Renault UK Champion in 2004 and then into the British F3 International Series in 2005, with the same Fortec Motorsport team that he had been with in FRenault UK.

In British F3, he was the highest placed rookie and finished 3rd behind Alvaro Parente and Charlie Kimball, as well as managing 13th in the BP Ultimate Masters at Zandvoort, having started 16th, while at the Macau Grand Prix, Conway ended up fourth in both the qualifying and the qualifying race around the Circuito da Guia, before a problematic Grand Prix saw him finish 14th.

Following that success he was signed by 2MB Sports Management run by former Grand Prix drivers Martin Brundle and Mark Blundell, and signed for the Räikkönen Robertson Racing team, owned by then McLaren driver Kimi Räikkönen and his race-manager Steve Robertson. In the 2006 season, Mike dominated the British F3 International Series, and clinched the title with three races remaining, as well as winning Race Two of the prestigious Pau Grand Prix, in France, a round of the British F3 International Series for 2006. While at the Macau Grand Prix, after qualifying 11th, he finished 7th in the qualifying race, before becoming the first British driver to win the Grand Prix since Darren Manning in 1999.

GP2[link]

Conway driving for Trident Racing at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

He also made his GP2 debut at Silverstone in June 2006, when he replaced the injured Olivier Pla in a DPR Direxiv car. Having stalled at the start of Race One, he battled home to 11th place. In Race 2 he finished 11th again.

Conway also won the National Racing Driver of the Year Award at the 2006 McLaren Autosport Awards.

He then signed up to drive a full season for Super Nova Racing in the 2007 GP2 Series, taking a podium finish at Silverstone, and also signed as a test driver with the Honda Racing F1 Team [1]. He remained in the series for 2008, having signed for the Trident Racing team,^[1] after testing for several other teams [2]. At Monaco he took his first GP2 series win (and first 2008 podium) in the sprint race, earning pole position by finishing 8th in the feature race (in which he ran third before being hit by backmarker Javier Villa on the final lap)[3]. At Magny-Cours he also finished 8th in the feature race, but this time he faded to finish 6th in a wet sprint race. He eventually finished 12th in the drivers' championship, an improvement of two positions on the previous year.

IndyCar[link]

During 2008, Conway was given an opportunity to test an IndyCar Series car at Infineon Raceway and surprised several series regulars by being top of the times during one session.^[2] Conway signed with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing to compete in the IndyCar Series full–time in 2009.

On the final lap of the 2010 Indianapolis 500, Conway was battling side by side with Ryan Hunter-Reay when the two cars became entangled as Hunter-Reay's Dallara ran low on fuel and stuttered between turns 3 and 4, resulting in Conway's Dallara-Honda being launched into the air. Conway suffered a broken leg during the crash and was flown straight to the Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis.^[3] Conway also received a compression fracture of one of his thoracic vertebrae and has been fitted with back brace. The injuries effectively ended his participation in the rest of the 2010 Izod IndyCar Series season.^[4]

On February 1, 2011, Andretti Autosport announced that Conway had been signed to a full-time ride for the 2011 IndyCar season.^[5] He won his first IndyCar race at Long Beach on April 17, 2011.

During the 2012 Indianapolis 500 Conway returned to racing at Indianapolis after failing to qualify for the race the year before. He qualified near the back but appeared to have a strong car coming up several positions during the race. On lap 79 Conway entered the pits during a scheduled green flag pit stop period. He made contact with one of his crew members damaging his front wing but not injuring the crew member. The damage went unnoticed by the crew who hurried up the pit stop to keep Conway in contention. A few laps later Conway lost control of his car spinning in front of Will Power and making contact with Power causing him to hit the inside wall. At the same time Conway's car turned around backwards and flew airborne into the fence topside first. Conway was uninjured in the incident, but due to damage he was unable to finish the race and was scored in 29th position.

Motorsports career results[link]

Career summary[link]

^* Season in progress.

Complete GP2 series results[link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

American open–wheel racing results[link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

IndyCar Series[link]

Indianapolis 500[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• IndyCar Driver Page
• Career statistics
• Interview
• Interview (Keith Collantine, Auto Trader)
• Mike Conway is presented with his trophy for winning the 2006 British F3 International Series

Marty Wilson (born 1957?) is an English professional poker player from Wolverhampton. His nickname originates from when, as a teenager, he escaped several rival football fans by jumping into a polar bear pit.

His extensive career dates back to an early World Series of Poker visit in 1985. However he first gained public notoriety by finishing runner-up in the £300 Pot Limit Hold-Em event at the Victoria Casino in London.

He went on to become a regular on the Late Night Poker television series, being one of few players to appear in every series. His only win on the series was in his heat during series 3, where he defeated a field including Surinder Sunar and Pascal "Triple P" Perrault to get his seat in the Grand Final. He went on to finish 4th in the Final, which was eventually won by Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Wilson's biggest win came in 1998, when he won the Carnival of Poker tournament at the Rio, taking home $171,000.

In 2001, during the £300 Pot Limit Hold-Em tournament in Glasgow, Scotland he split the pot to take a £7,500 share of the first prize. The next year he won the $150 Pot Limit Hold-Em tournament in Dundee, Scotland, which included a rare final table appearance by Late Night Poker commentator Nic Szeremeta.

In 2004 he won the No Limit Hold-Em tournament at the Crown Australasian Poker Championship in Melbourne, defeating a final table including Peter "The Poet" Costa, "Barmy" Barny Boatman and "Cowboy" Kenna James. On the trip he found an address book left in his hotel room. He eventually realised it belonged to his brother Michael, who he had not seen in 18 years. He returned to the Crown Championship in 2005, taking the Pot Limit Omaha title as well.