Open Mind expands service team

With the relentless rate of growth at Open Mind Technologies UK, the Bicester-based CAD/CAM developer has expanded its service team with the appointment of three new applications engineers – Gareth Clarke, Matthew Brill and Victor Fapohunda – to bolster its pre-and post-sales departments.

Matthew Brill has accelerated his career progression since leaving school more than 10 years ago. He has completed a foundation degree in motorsport technology and from university, he worked as a mechanic for an international motor racing team before moving into manufacturing where he spent several years working for a high-end subcontract manufacturer in the motorsport industry.

Joining the team alongside Mr Brill is Gareth Clarke, an engineer who started his engineering career more than 10 years ago. Working for a number of subcontract manufacturers, he has evolved from CNC machining and programming to becoming a team leader and subsequently head of programming in his final role before joining Open Mind. 

Completing the trio of new arrivals is Victor Fapohunda, an engineer who started his career pathway as an apprentice machinist almost a decade ago. He has since progressed as a machinist and more recently held down posts as a production lead with extensive programming experience with hyperMILL.

Commenting upon the new additions and the strengthening of the team, Open Mind UK managing director Adrian Smith said: “Our business is continually growing in the UK and has outgrown our internal business model.

“To further enhance our level of service and customer support we needed to restructure our application team and part of this has been to divide our applications team into pre- and post-sales engineers, giving them greater autonomy with customers and allowing dedicated experts to maximise their skillset to the advantage of the end user.

“To implement this strategy, we needed to grow the applications team,” he added. “The appointment of Gareth, Matthew and Victor will certainly build upon our robust new structure and help us to deliver a foundation for future growth.

“We are delighted with the new additions. To support their endeavours, we have added more internal resources such as dedicated hotlines, a new training room and ongoing enhancements to hyperMILL such as availability from the cloud. We are in an exciting transformational period and it is invigorating to have such a dynamic and enthusiastic team driving our brand.”

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