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Having over twenty years experience in Quality Management Systems, she has held various management positions in Quality and Engineering in industries including telecommunications, automotive, plastics, and chemicals. Currently, she is a member of the SAE Aerospace G19 Counterfeit Electronic Components Committee which is chartered to address aspects of preventing, detecting, responding to and counteracting the threat of counterfeit electronic components. Silicon Cert Laboratories is an independent testing facility which offers reliability testing and analytical services. They have a comprehensive Electronic Component Counterfeit Detection program.

Tom Sharpe is the Vice President of SMT Corporation, located in Sandy Hook Connecticut. Tom co-founded SMT with his wife Kirsten in 1995 and they have since built SMT into one of the industry’s leading Independent Stocking Distributors of electronic components. In addition to being a long-time member of ERAI, Tom is the current Vice President of IDEA where he has served continuously on the Board of Directors since the year of it’s formation in 2003.

Tom is an associate member of Aerospace Industry Association’s Counterfeit Parts IPT, and a member of SAE International’s G-19 committee that is currently developing the new AS6081 Independent Distributor certification standard. Tom also serves on the G-19A sub-committee that is drafting the recommended test methods for the AS6171 Component Test & Inspection standard.

Tom is very active on the Defense & Aerospace Industry speaking tour and has become a leading voice from the Independent sector in the fight against counterfeit components in the electronics industry. Tom’s presentations serve to educate all sectors of the electronics industry about the growing dangers of counterfeits in today’s market, and best practices to detect and mitigate those dangers.

Kevin Sink is the Director of Quality at TTI, Inc. TTI is a specialty distributor of passive, interconnect, electromechanical and discrete components headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. Kevin has served with NEDA on counterfeit mitigation strategies and is currently a committee member for SAE developing the counterfeit mitigation standard for distribution, AS6081. He began his career as a buyer with General Dynamics and has worked in many roles in the electronics industry including sales, product management, sales management and sales operations before assuming responsibility for Quality. Kevin holds two business degrees from Texas A&M University and is celebrating his 19th year with TTI. Kevin’s passion for developing and managing new processes and systems makes him well suited to tackle emerging issues in our industry.

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