Custer Consulting Group is a California corporation established to provide market research, business analysis and forecasts focused on printed circuit board fabrication and assembly, passive components and semiconductors as well as the electronic equipment end markets. The founder and president is Walter Custer.
Walt Custer is an industry analyst focused on the global electronics industry. Prior to forming his own company he was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Morton Electronic Materials, a global supplier of specialty chemicals and process equipment for the PCB industry
Custer
Consulting Group is a member of the IPC. Walt
has been active in this trade organization since
1977. He is a member of the IPC Technology Marketing Research Council where he is
chairman of the data collection committee and a participant in the World Market Statistical
Program. Walt is a member of the Suppliers
Management Council and the Tradeshow Subcommittee.
He has been vice-chairman of the T/MRC Steering
Committee and chairman of the IPC
Printed Circuits Expo trade show. Walt
received the IPC's President's Award
in 1992 and the Raymond E. Pritchard Hall of Fame
Award in 2001.
Custer
Consulting Group is also an active member of the
EIPC - the European printed circuit trade
organization.
Walt
was voted "one of the 10 Most Influential
Persons in the PCB industry" for 2000 based
upon PC Fab magazine and Atomic29's global ballot.
He
writes CircuiTree Magazine's monthly "Market Outlook" column.
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials sponsors this activity.
Walt also authors a regular column for the California Circuits Association
newsletter, the www.pcb007.com
website and the UK magazine Global SMT & Packaging.
Walt
is a member of the Board of Directors of Coretec Inc., Canada's
largest manufacturer of printed circuit boards.
He
holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an M.S. in Physical Chemistry from Purdue University.
Walt can be reached at 707 785-1777 or
walt@custerconsulting.com
Jon
Custer-Topai is Vice President of Custer
Consulting Group and responsible for the
corporation's market research and news analysis
activities. Jon is completing his B.A. in
Marketing at the University of Phoenix.
He is a member of the IPC and active in the
Technology Marketing Research Council. Jon
lives in Windsor, California and can be reached at
707 620-0053 or
jon@custerconsulting.com