GILES GASKELL APPOINTED NORTH AMERICAN SALES MANAGER FOR 3D IMAGING PRODUCTS FOR WENZEL/XSPECT SOLUTIONS

The appointment of Giles Gaskell as the new North American sales manager for 3D Imaging Products for Wenzel/Xspect Solutions, subsidiary of Wenzel Group GmbH, is announced by Andy Woodward, North American general manager for Wenzel/Xspect Solutions.

Andy Woodward points out, “Wenzel continues to broaden its product base through the addition of unique new 3D imaging technologies that complement Wenzel’s CMM metrology products. As a result, we are focusing new sales and marketing resources to help develop markets for these new products in North America. Giles Gaskell will be directing those efforts and brings a wealth of technical and business development experience in the areas of non-contact scanning for reverse engineering and 3D imaging technology. He has worked with many of Europe’s most prestigious design, engineering and manufacturing companies on reverse engineering and non-contact inspection projects.”

Giles Gaskell comes to Wenzel/Xspect Solutions from GKS-Laser Design, Inc. where he had been the business development manager. Prior to that time Giles had been the director of business development for NVision Inc. a manufacturer of non-contact measurement and 3D imaging hardware and software. Giles also founded 3D Scanners Ltd. a U.K. based manufacturer that introduced the first hand-held laser scanners to the U.K. market.

Mr. Gaskell is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Aston University in Birmingham, England. He is a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He and his family reside in Linden, Michigan.

Wenzel/Xspect Solutions, Inc. headquartered in Wixom, Michigan, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wenzel Group GmbH of Germany. Wenzel/Xspect Solutions is the Number 3 supplier of both traditional CMMs and GMM gear measuring machines to the North American metrology market. Wenzel/Xspect Solutions also provides a variety of unique 3D imaging technologies including the ScanTec™ non-contact white light optical measuring system, the exaCT™ integrated computed tomography workstation, MobileScan3D® mobile CNC Measurement System and the Shapetracer™ 3D laser line scanner.