embers of the PSMA Board of Directors are elected at the Annual Meeting held every year during the APEC conference. The Directors serve a three year term and are eligible to be reelected for one additional term.

We introduced you to the two newest Directors – Henry Lee and John McManus – in the last issue of the UPDATE. In this issue we would like you to meet Jim Marinos, who was elected to his second term at the PSMA Annual Meeting in February.
 

Jim Marinos

Jim has served on the Board of Directors of the PSMA for 3 years, and is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Jim Marinos is the Executive VP Marketing and Engineering for Payton Planar Magnetics and has been involved in the design and development of switch mode power systems for military applications and magnetic designs since 1982.

In his present position, Jim manages all aspects of business activities to facilitate sales, marketing and engineering including hiring of technical representatives in North and South America, technical training of technical representatives, developing new major accounts and negotiating sales contracts.

Prior to his current position, Jim was the Director of Engineering for Lambda Novatronics (now GE Aerospace) and held design positions with Ceag, Bell Labs and Superior Manufacturing.

Jim has written numerous technical papers on switch mode power supplies and planar magnetics. He holds a BSEE from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY.  He is married, lives in Weston, Florida and his interests include mountain biking and traveling.

As a Director on the Board of PSMA Jim’s goals are:

• To work on providing the design community with the knowledge of all lessons to be learned from the 10 technical forums that PSMA has. PSMA can contribute to their success by providing ideas and lessons learned from others.

• To make sure that all special projects/committees address the needs of the member companies and how they can directly benefit from that information.

• To explore the synergy with the “new power supply” companies of the world, which includes automotive power, green energy power and military power.

With close to 30 years of experience in the power supply industry I can provide direction, knowledge and leadership to PSMA which in turn will benefit the industry.

Provided by Jim Marinos,
Executive VP, Payton America Inc.

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