Polar Instruments Welcomes Dorine Gurney as President

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Polar Instruments, a specialist provider of tools for PCB design, fabrication and test, welcomes Dorine Gurney as President effective January 2018.

Dorine brings her experience from a career spanning Mentor Graphics, Lattice Semiconductor and most recently with Tektronix. Dorine takes over the reins from Ken Taylor who is retiring from day to day activities, Ken will remain on the board of Polar Instruments Ltd as a non executive director.

“I am excited to welcome Dorine to the Polar team,” said Taylor. “She brings a wealth of experience and a track record as someone who makes things happen. Her background from software engineering through silicon companies, and more recently in RF measurement brings a wealth of new experience into the Polar team.” 

Polar is exhibiting at Design Con booth #605, offering an excellent opportunity to meet the Polar team.

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The Printed Circuit Designer’s Guide to…Secrets of High-Speed PCBs, Part 1

The Printed Circuit Designer’s Guide to…Secrets of High-Speed PCBs, Part 2

About Polar Instruments

Polar Instruments is a market leader in designing and manufacturing tools to simplify and enhance the design, fabrication documentation and testing of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Polar’s innovative tools include the industry standard Controlled Impedance Test System (CITS) which provides the global PCB industry with an easy to use test system for high-speed digital and RF boards, as well as class-leading tools for fast and accurate design and testing of controlled impedance in PCBs. Polar also leads the industry in tools for PCB layer stackup design and documentation. Established in 1976 Polar has operations and channel partners  in the US, UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. The Polar logo and pixelated strip are copyright Polar Instruments Ltd.

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