Gooch & Housego plc announced a significant refocusing of their sales, business development and marketing activities with the appointment of Jon Fowler as Executive VP of Commercial Development. This newly created senior role, which reports directly to CEO Gareth Jones, is intended to focus Group Sales & Marketing activities toward further growth and to support the company's move towards additional value added business. Jon most recently served the company as head of the Acousto-Optics and Electro-Optics business unit.

He brings three decades of applicable market experience and a working knowledge of many of the company's most significant applications and customers.