Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 26, 2003

Bert Notini – Manufacturer’s Services Ltd (msv)

BERT NOTINI is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Manufacturers' Services Limited, a global technology supply chain and manufacturing services company based in Concord, Massachusetts. He has overall responsibility for MSL's finance, M&A, legal and public reporting matters. Since joining MSL in May 2000, he brought MSL through its initial public offering, has led a number of key acquisitions and recently successfully raised new equity capital for MSL. Prior to joining MSL he was the General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Corporate Development and Administration at Wang Laboratories, Inc. in Billerica, Massachusetts. He was part of the management team that rebuilt Wang Laboratories from a declining minicomputer company into a $3.4 billion global information technology and networking services company prior to its sale in 1999. Before joining Wang in 1994, Mr. Notini was a senior partner at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, where he specialized in financing transactions, corporate reorganizations, Chapter 11 litigation and commercial law. Mr. Notini serves on the Board of Sonus Networks, a voice over internet protocol telecommunications company, listed on NASDAQ, e-Presence, a directory services company listed on NASDAQ and Saints Memorial Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts. Mr. Notini graduated summa cum laude from Boston College in 1978, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1983. While in law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Boston College Law Review and was appointed to the Order of the Coif. He also received a master's degree in 1980 from Boston University, where he was a Teaching Fellow. Mr. Notini served as law clerk for the Hon. Edward F. Hennessey, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, from 1983 to 1984. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief overview of Manufacturers'

Services Limited?

Mr. Notini: MSL is a global provider of electronics manufacturing

services to some of the world's most well known