In this series, we’re meeting the Active-PCB team and finding out a little bit more about them. This time it’s the turn of Active-PCB Solutions’ CEO, Mark Aitken.
Name: Mark Aitken
Job Title: Active-PCS’s CEO
Joined Active-PCB Solutions: 2021
- What inspired you to work in the PCB/electronics industry? I was a customer for contract electronic manufacturing for many years so when the opportunity came to work on the other side of the supply chain, it was something I thought I could add value to.
- In fewer than 100 words, what does a typical workday at Active-PCB Solutions look like for you? Supporting the team to drive business growth by focussing on our customers and their requirements. Helping solve the problems we face if I can. Planning for the future.
- What do you enjoy most about working with the team at Active-PCB Solutions? The improvements we continually make as a team and how we are developing as a company and as individuals.
- Imagine it’s the end of a Friday workday – what does your ideal evening look like? Dinner with my family, Rugby on the TV, large glass of Red Wine ……
- What’s a hobby or activity you’ve recently gotten into, or one which you would love to try? I would very much like to re-introduce Golf as my hobby, and plan to do this in 2025.
- If you could wake up tomorrow being an expert at something or having a brand new skill, what would it be and why? Mind Reading! It has to help at work and at home, surely!!
- What is the last series you binged on Netflix/Prime/etc (and would you recommend it?) The Day of the Jackal and yes, I would recommend it.
- You have two weeks off and an unlimited budget; where would you visit? Japan. I’ve always wanted to go and to go to the island of Honshu and ski Mount Fugi while I was there.
- What’s your go-to comfort food? Cheese and Crackers.
- According to an advert I saw on LinkedIn, animals are excellent for engagement, so please show off your pet (if you have one)! This is Dotty (Dorothy Dog to give her full name)
- The same advert told me that humour was also good for engagement. Can you tell us a joke? A man walks into a shop and says to the shop keeper ‘I’d like to buy a wasp please’ The shopkeeper says ‘ we don’t sell wasps sir’ to which the man replies ………..well you had one in the window yesterday!
- Jo Edwards, Senior Account Manager, set the following question for you: What is your favourite album? I am a big music fan and this is an impossible question! I’ll go for my favourite of this year which is No Name by Jack White
Thanks Mark!
