SmartKem has appointed Billy McLaughlin as its new COO.McLaughlin spent more than two decades in senior roles with some of the semiconductor industry’s leaders, including Motorola and GLOBALFOUNDRIES.   He is an accredited Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and joins SmartKem from e2v, which was recently acquired by Teledyne for $790 million. McLaughlin has been appointed to manage industrialisation of the company’s semiconductor platform truFLEX and technology transfer to Asia, as well as overs...