Rising Star Award
The Rising Star Award is given to members who have taken leadership roles and provided support to standards, education, advocacy, and solutions to industry challenges. Their contributions have made a significant impact on the Association and the industry within the past five years and will continue to have a lasting impact for many years to come.
Next presentation: Week of March 17, 2026, at IPC APEX EXPO®.
2025 | Young-Ho Hwang | Guru E&E |
2025 | Paavo Niskala | TactoTek |
2025 | Feng Xue | IBM |
| 2024 | Naim Kapadia | Grinsty Rail Ltd. |
| 2024 | Michael Schleicher | Semikron Elektronik GmbH |
| 2023 | Paige Fiet | TTM Technologies Inc. |
| 2023 | Christina Trussell | Blue Origin |
| 2023 | Sarah Czaplewski-Campbell | IBM |
| 2022 | Tim Burke | Arch Systems |
| 2022 | Francisco Fourcade | Fourcad, Inc. |
| 2022 | Thomas Marktscheffel | ASM Assembly Systems GmbH |
| 2022 | Christina Rutherford | Honeywell |
| 2021 | Audra Thurston | Calumet Electronics Corporation |
| 2021 | Vladan Koncar | ENSAIT |
| 2021 | Radu Diaconescu | Swie.io |
| 2021 | Benoit Dagenais | Innovative Vehicle Institute |
| 2020 | Zhiman Chen | ZhuZhou CRRC Times Electric Co., Ltd. |
| 2020 | Gaston Hidalgo | Toyota Motor North America |
| 2020 | Stephanie Rodgers | Apex Mills |
| 2020 | Kate Stees | Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control |
| 2019 | MaryAlice Gill | Jabil Circuit |
| 2019 | Milea Kammer | Honeywell Aerospace |
| 2019 | Matt Kelly | IBM |
| 2019 | Hans-Peter Tranitz | Continental Automotive, GmbH |
| 2018 | Pierre-Emmanuel Goutorbe | Airbus |
| 2018 | Yusaku Kono | Japan Unix |
| 2017 | Jimmy Baccam | Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control |
| 2017 | Symon Franklin | Custom Interconnect Ltd |
| 2017 | Jan Pedersen | Elmatica AS |
| 2017 | Udo Welzel | Robert Bosch GmbH |
| 2016 | Steven Bowles | L-3 Fuzing and Ordnance Systems, Cincinnati |
| 2016 | Stan Rak | Continental Automotive GmbH |
| 2016 | Matt Turpin | Zentech Manufacturing |
| 2016 | Peter Zhou | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. |