Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 27, 1999
FREDERICK HUME joined as President and Chief Executive Officer of Data-
I/O in February 1999. Prior to that, he was Vice President and General
Manager with Keithly Instruments in Cleveland, OH. In a decade at
Keithly, Mr. Hume helped double sales of his Instrument Division and
helped increase market capitalization of the firm to $120 million. He
also formed strategic alliances with IBM to develop the Quantox product
line for semiconductor process characterization, and opened offices in
Tokyo, Japan and Bejing, China. Previous to Keithly, Mr. Hume was with
Seattle-based John Fluke Manufacturing. He joined Fluke in 1972, and
moved quickly from product manager to Vice President of Technology and
Planning and finally to Group Vice President for Manufacturing and R&D.
His accomplishments at Fluke included the development and introduction
of several successful industrial product lines. Profile
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