Fresh leadership is helping guide TECAT Performance Sensors in a new direction. The Ann Arbor-based start-up has hired two executives over the last year, including a new CEO.
The new leadership has allowed the nearly 2-year-old company to refocus its efforts and improve its sales. Revenues for the company are up 10 percent mainly on the strength of word-of-mouth references. The firm's leadership expects those numbers to improve.
"We expect the second half of this year to be stronger than the second half of last year," says Don Keating, vice president of business development for
TECAT Performance Sensors.
TECAT Performance Sensors, a spin-off of
TECAT Engineering, is developing wireless sensor technology. These sensors gather environmental, motion and mechanical information then wirelessly send these parameters to a central control unit or direct to a control or viewing device. Its sensors, WISE and POINT Telemetry Systems, allow for transmission, monitoring and recording of live torque data and more from any rotating shaft. It especially designed to be used in confined spaces.
TECAT Performance Sensors currently employs six people and the occasional intern. Keating expects those numbers to go up as sales rise, which he projects to increase by 25-30 percent over the next year.
Source: Don Keating, vice president of business development for TECAT Performance Sensors
Writer: Jon Zemke
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