Mark Stanley

Mark Shanley, Sales & Marketing Director at Astute, has worked in the Electronics industry for 31 years and specialises in risk mitigation for Aerospace and Defence supply-chains. Mark’s objective is to build working partnerships focused on remaining cognizant with constantly evolving counterfeiting efforts to alleviate the threat of such components entering the supply chain and delivering Quality Driven Distribution. Mark works alongside industry and government executives as part of the award-winning UK Governments Counterfeit Avoidance Working Group (CAWG), the US G19 committee for Franchised / traceable distribution and the AS9970 working group for COTS equipment to create processes to tackle the threat of counterfeit components. Also sitting on the ADS Quality group and the defence Growth Partnership Government initiative for creating transparency trading models and delivering supply chain solutions to meet the demanding Defence industry requirements and increase exports. Now embedded into the AS9100 standards, counterfeit awareness training is mandatory for key personnel to achieve a better understanding of the threat posed by un-regulated procurement activities. Mark has been hosting awareness session for key customers around the world to enable them to gain a better understanding of how to avoid contaminating their stock holding. With the key messages to understand how the geopolitical and macro environmental impacts can affect the component supply chain, where the robust new supplier controls help prevent bogus stockist and trusted partners are critical to navigate these turbulent times.