Rex Bionics hires top UK trade official as new CEO

Rex Bionics hires top UK trade official as new CEO
By Paul McBeth Aug. 6 (BusinessDesk) - Rex Bionics, the local company which listed on the London Stock Exchange’s growth-orientated AIM market in May, has hired the UK government's trade guru Crispin Simon as its new boss, and brought forward a shift into bigger manufacturing facilities in Auckland. The London-based company, which builds robotic exoskeletons that allows wheelchair users to walk, yesterday appointed Simon as its new chief executive when announcing its maiden first-half earnings since its reverse takeover of Union MedTech a...