SPEC SENSORS, LLC

SPEC Sensors develops and manufactures the next generation of environmental sensors and solutions for mobile devices, wearables and the Internet of Things.

  • Stage $1M in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Electronics / Instrumentation
  • Location Newark, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2012
  • Employees 12
  • Website spec-sensors.com

Company Summary

SPEC Sensors is developing and manufacturing cutting edge gas sensors and driving new applications in mobile, wearable and connected devices in the Internet of Things. Gas sensors deployed in smartphones and other wireless and wearable devices provide a vast array of functionality, from informing people about their air quality and safety, to diagnosing health conditions through breath and body analysis. Smart Cities, Smart Homes, and mobile devices need high performance, low cost gas sensors to power new applications.

SPEC Sensors was founded to provide the sensors and software that make gas sensing a part of our everyday lives, from letting people know the healthiest way to get to work, to improving the air quality in a neighborhood or city, to detecting and diagnosing personal conditions and diseases. Based in California near Silicon Valley, we combine our extensive experience in gas sensing with advanced manufacturing to produce high performance gas sensors that can go anywhere.

Team

  • Fred Conforti
    BOD

    Fred Conforti was CEO of Pittway Corporation’s fire protection and controls companies (PSTG), which he managed from a start-up in 1984 until it became the world’s largest commercial fire alarm control and smoke detector manufacturer. Prior to PSTG, he was President and CEO of BRK Electronics, a division of Pittway. At BRK, he was one of the founders of the brand First Alert, which remains one of the largest brands in the market today. He holds nu

  • Ed Stetter
    General Manager/CFO

    Ed was formerly GM/CFO of KWJ Engineering Inc., where he oversaw significant growth through acquisition, product development and streamlined operations. Ed is also an attorney licensed in IL, with experience in corporate and real estate transactions. Ed has a B.B.A. in Marketing and a B.S. in Computer Applications from the University of Notre Dame, and a J.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology: Chicago-Kent College of Law.

  • JOSEPH STETTER
    CTO

    Dr. Joseph Stetter is a world recognized sensor expert and inventor with over 30 yrs exp and 40+ patents. With several startups with profitable exits in the industry, Dr. Stetter has a track record of successfully commercializing gas sensor technology. Dr. Stetter has published more than 200 technical articles, written book chapters and has more than 40 domestic and foreign patents. He has served as Chairman of the Electrochemical Society Sensor

  • Kenneth W Johnson
    BOD

    Ken Johnson was the founder and owner of GasTech Inc. from 1971 until its sale to Thermo Electron in 1992. He started KWJ Engineering in 1993 as a provider of specialized gas detection instruments and systems. Earlier he was a principal of Johnson-Williams, Inc., which was acquired by Bacharach in 1965. He has had full-time involvement in development, design and application of gas detection instrumentation since 1947, and Ken’s father developed t

  • Lawrence B Kilham
    BOD

    Larry Kilham comes from a family with over 120 patents. As a serial entrepreneur he has founded and sold three companies in plastics machinery, polymer chemical quality analyzers, and gas detection instrumentation. He is a holder or co-holder of three patents and was jointly awarded the IR-100 award in 1986 (one of the 100 most significant technical products in the USA) for a new system for detecting defects in polymer manufacturing. Larry Kilham

  • Ed Stetter

Previous Investors

  • NSF, NASA, EPA, DOE, NIH, Gas Technology Institute
    Unconfirmed
    Private Strategic Investor
    Unconfirmed

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