Terence J. Gooding
Executive Chairman of
the Board
Terence Gooding, an entrepreneurial industrialist, is executive
chairman of the board of the Grass Valley Group. Gooding also is
co-chairman of the board of Wavetek Wandel Goltermann Inc., the second
largest international communications test company.
Dr. Gooding has 35 years of experience in managing, developing,
acquiring, and restructuring international technology businesses. He has
successfully led and grown five high technology companies, two of them to
more than $1 billion in revenues.
In 1991, Gooding acquired Wavetek Corporation, a 29-year-old publicly
owned company based in San Diego, California, and took it private. Under
his leadership, with a sharp focus on product development, expansion of
operations in Europe and Asia and three complementary acquisitions, the
company was transformed into the second largest communications test
company worldwide, with revenue growth from $60 million annually to $500
million annually in eight years.
Prior to Wavetek, Gooding transformed one of Britain's oldest
scientific instrument companies, Cambridge Instruments, founded in 1881
by Horace Darwin, the son of the famous biologist Charles Darwin, into
the world's largest manufacturer of optical instruments with revenue
growth from $20 million to more than $1 billion in 11 years. In 1990,
Cambridge acquired Wild Leitz Holding AG, which owned the famous Leica
Camera Group, and became Leica plc.
In 1981, while Gooding was serving as chairman of Cambridge, he formed
a new company, Picker International, with Britain's General Electric
Company and acquired RCA's Picker Corporation, a $500 million medical
imaging company, and GEC and Cambridge's medical businesses. Gooding
served as president and CEO for five years. In 1993, Picker introduced
the first commercial magnetic resonance medical imaging system.
Gooding founded Maxwell Laboratories in San Diego in 1965. Today, the
high technology company, which has revenues of $200 million annually,
serves government and commercial markets.
Gooding received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the
University of Wales in 1955, and a PhD. in nuclear physics from the
University of Minnesota in 1958, while on a Fulbright scholarship.
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