Before joining Celestion, Wood served as technical and marketing manager at Icore International, a market-leading specialist engineering company, offering aerospace and industrial technical products to major OEMs. Here he was responsible for corporate engineering activities as well as being accountable for one of three internal industrial business units. Prior to this, Wood had built his career as a senior manager at two global engineering organisations, with an impressive track record introducing creative solutions to maximise efficiency and increase profitability.
"Nigel's extensive experience in an OEM-based engineering environment makes him exceptionally qualified," commented CEO Frank DiGirolamo. "This appointment underscores Celestion's commitment to grow further our market share in the Pro audio and music industry sectors. Nigel will build on the company's 80-year history of setting industry standards, pioneering technologies and delivering high-value products to customers."
Wood holds a BSc. (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southampton University, in the UK and has recently moved to Suffolk to be close to the Professional Division headquarters in Ipswich.
(Lee Baldock)
