Denver, Colorado and Cambridge UK – November 7, 2007 – Ubisense announces that Russ Chandler has joined Ubisense Inc. as President. Russ is
a serial entrepreneur having founded and exited several high growth, high tech
businesses in his career. Most recently, Russ has been President and CEO of a
Denver-based time and labor tracking company called TimeCentre, which he
recently sold to new investors. The company was active in selling solutions to
the Manufacturing sector. Before that he was President and CEO of a start-up
that rapidly grew to dominate its market space before becoming a division of
General Electric. In addition, Ubisense also announces the appointment of manufacturing
industry veteran Ron Holmes as Sales Director. Ron joins the company following
nearly two decades of selling enterprise solutions into Fortune 500
Manufacturers such as GE, Pratt & Whitney and Boeing.
“We are
very excited about both appointments,” stated Richard Green, CEO of Ubisense. “Russ’s track record in driving exponential
growth will be of tremendous benefit to our North American team. Since the
launch of our new product in June, the team has been installing distributed
Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) covering hundreds of thousands of square feet in mission
critical production facilities. The demand for our new system is great and
these appointments will allow the Company to grow to meet this demand in
delivering mission critical RTLS solutions that our customers rely on.”
Raghu
Das CEO IDTechEx, Inc. – a knowledge based consulting company specialising in
printed electronics, RFID and smart packaging based in Cambridge, MA – commented
“We have long seen the need for precise real time location tracking in people,
plant and equipment rich environments such as manufacturing and logistics. As
organisations strive to improve their enterprise resource planning and process
automation, real time location solutions such as that provided by Ubisense will
become a major enabler for them.”
About Ubisense
Ubisense is the market leading vendor of
precise RTLS (Real-time Location Systems) based on Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
technology. The company delivers complete solutions based on a highly scalable
and reliable real-time location platform that is being deployed in mission
critical applications around the world. www.ubisense.net
Charles F Sturman
VP Marketing Ubisense
+44 1223 535153
charles.sturman @ ubisense.net
