FEBRUARY 2--Adept Technology (Livermore, CA), a provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, has announced the election of Mike Kelly to chairman of the Adept board of directors. Mike, currently the CEO of Kinsale Associates, LLC, a Silicon Valley merchant banking firm, and previously the vice chairman of Broadview Jefferies, a middle market investment bank, has nearly 25 years of experience with high-technology businesses, guiding their development and profitable growth into both Japan and emerging Asia markets.
Adept Technology designs, manufactures, and markets robotic systems, motion-control and machine-vision technology for global markets including automotive, consumer electronics, consumer goods, disk drive, food, industrial tooling, medical devices, and pharmaceutical. Adept robots, controllers, and software are used for small parts assembly, material handling and packaging. Adept intelligent automation product lines include industrial robots, configurable linear modules, machine controllers for robot mechanisms and other flexible automation equipment, machine vision, and systems and applications software. More information is available at www.adept.com.
