Simon Hawksworth has 18 years experience in sales and marketing in the field of design and manufacturing outsourcing - working for 15 years in the field of medical devices. From 1995 to 2002 he worked at Maxtek Components Corporation and served in a variety of positions from Business Development Manager through Sales Director and Vice President of Sales and Marketing. The primary focus of this business was the design and manufacturing of complex microelectronics subassemblies for the Medical, Military and Test & Measurement industry. In 2002 he joined HEI, Inc as Vice president of Sales and Marketing and was instrumental in taking this Medical Device Outsourcing Company from $20 to $56M in revenue in three years. Since mid-2006 he has served a number of Silicon Valley Companies in a consultancy capacity, including Solectron Corporation and Hunter Technology, Inc., helping develop their Medical Device Outsource business. Simon Hawksworth’s positions have focused on winning new business and to develop effective relationships with Medical Device OEMs.
While working with Solectron Corporation, Simon Hawksworth developed a close working relationship with the team at Circle Medical Devices who were one of three Solectron partner engineering companies. Simon joined Circle Medical as Vice President of Sales & Marketing in November 2007. He is responsible for: Sales & Marketing Strategy, New Business Development, Account Management and Marketing Communications.
He holds a BA in Business from Southbank University in London and an MBA from the University of Westminster in London.
The life sciences industry had been relatively slow to adopt outsourcing as a business model. In the medical device sector, outsourcing initially gained traction in the manufacturing phase, and many large medical device companies have established international relationships to capitalize on low-cost labor for profit improvements. As the outsourcing model has matured, both established and emerging companies have recognized that outsourcing other key areas of product design and development, particularly research and development, can drive significant time-to-market and cost advantages with no risk to product quality or regulatory compliance. The outsourced development market is growing at >20% with a few companies like Circle Medical emerging as the primary choice of both VC backed and major device companies.
