Frank Nichols, CEO of Vancouver-based Silicon Forest Electronics, joined Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Sunday to cut the Washington state ribbon at the Farnborough International Air Show 2014 in England.
Nichols is part of a Washington delegation of about 55 Washington representatives, including those from local government and business, who are attending the show, Nichols said Monday by phone from England. Inslee and Department of Commerce Director Brian Bonlender are leading a state delegation at the show. Inslee will return to the state on Thursday.
The event functions as a huge trade show for the aerospace and defense industries this week. It opens to the public this weekend. Silicon Forest, with about 100 employees, is an electronics manufacturing services company for the aerospace and unmanned systems industries.
Nichols attended the Farnborough air show in 2012 and last year was at the Paris Air Show, which is offered on odd-numbered years. He said he aims to make vital connections with companies wanting to work with a U.S. supplier and to reach out to possible customers in the international market. Nichols said he hopes to come home with at least one new customer.
