Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 31, 2000
RICHARD LONGDON is the Chief Executive of Cadcentre Group Plc. He
received an engineering training in the defence industry before gaining
experience in the project management of high value engineering projects.
He moved into sales and held a series of International sales and
marketing positions before joining Cadcentre in 1984. Shortly after
joining Mr Longdon was appointed Marketing Manager for the process
products. In January 1992 he relocated with his family to Frankfurt
where he was responsible for setting up and running the Group's German
office, Cadcentre GmbH. He returned to the UK as part of the management
buy out team in 1994 subsequently taking responsibility for the group's
world-wide sales and marketing activities before being appointed
Managing Director after Crispin Gray's retirement in 1999, and more
recently Chief Executive. Profile
the company, just to set the stage for our readers?
Mr. Longdon: Cadcentre was originally a spinout from
