(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. (API) has announced that company COO Joe Bioty has been named its new president. Bioty has been associated with high technology businesses for more than 40 years and led API as COO since 2010, as well as from 2003 to 2007. Company founder and CEO Kam Lau will remain chairman and CEO of the AP Group, of which API is a part.

As API president, Bioty will have full authority over API’s global operation, which is headquartered in the United States and supported by offices in China, Germany, India, and Brazil. API also has a full-scale services and support branch, API Services, in Newport News, Virginia.

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