FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 23, 2012
SMTC Appoints J. Randall Waterfield to Board of DirectorsTORONTO - April 23, 2012 -- SMTC Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTX, TSE: SMX), a global electronics manufacturing services provider, announced today the appointment of Mr. J. Randall Waterfield to its Board of Directors. Mr. Waterfield is the Chairman of Waterfield Group, a diversified financial services holding company. Mr. Waterfield is the Managing Director of Waterfield Asset Management, a registered investment advisor, and an owner and member of the Board of Directors of Cappello Waterfield & Co., an investment banking concern.
Mr. Waterfield also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Waterfield Enterprises, LLC, TheRateReport.com, Asure Software (Nasdaq: ASUR), RF Industries (Nasdaq: RFIL), Waterfield Technologies, and the Culver Military Summer School. Previously, Mr. Waterfield was at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he worked as an institutional asset manager from 1996 through 1999, responsible for small capitalization growth portfolios. Mr. Waterfield holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Alex Walker, SMTC's President and Co-Chief Executive Officer stated, "We are very excited to welcome J. Randall to the Board. His significant experience in finance and M&A, and on both public and private boards will help us to build value for our shareholders."
Note for Investors: The statements contained in this release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements which involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by their use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expect," "may," "should," "would," "will," "intends," "plans," "estimates," "anticipates" and similar words, and include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the expectations, intentions or strategies of SMTC Corporation. For these statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from forward looking statements include the challenges of managing quickly expanding operations and integrating acquired companies, fluctuations in demand
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for customers' products and changes in customers'
product sources, competition in the EMS industry, component
shortages, and others discussed in the Company's most
recent filings with securities regulators in the United
States and Canada. The forward-looking statements contained
in this release are made as of the date hereof and the
Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking
statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could
differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements.
About SMTC Corporation: SMTC Corporation, founded in 1985, is
a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing
services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration
and comprehensive testing services, enclosure fabrication, as
well as product design, sustaining engineering and supply
chain management services. SMTC facilities span a broad
footprint in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and a
partnering relationship in China, with more than 1,800
full-time employees. SMTC services extend over the entire
electronic product life cycle from the development and
introduction of new products through to the growth, maturity
and end-of-life phases. SMTC offers fully integrated contract
manufacturing services with a distinctive approach to global
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and emerging
technology companies primarily within industrial, computing
and communication market segments.
SMTC is a public company incorporated in Delaware with its
shares traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol
SMTX and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SMX.
For further information on SMTC Corporation, please visit our
website at www.smtc.com
(http://www.smtc.com/).
For further information: Alex Walker
President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, SMTC
Corporation
(905) 413.1190
Email: investorrelations@smtc.com
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