Sensor firm promotes employee to vice president

Submitted by nestorb on Fri, 2007-06-08 17:35.

10 May 2007 -- Loadstar Sensors, a leading designer and manufacturer of capacitive sensors, has announced the promotion of K Suresh to the position of Vice President of Operations. In this role, Suresh will be responsible for ramping up manufacturing, establishing quality control processes and building an exceptional customer service organisation.

Suresh has over twenty years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, quality control and supply chain management roles.

He has a proven track record in taking products from the prototype stage to full scale manufacturing.

Prior to Loadstar Sensors, Suresh managed all aspects of manufacturing at venture funded firm Cooligy prior to its acquisition by Emerson.

Before Cooligy, Suresh managed contract manufacturing operations that resulted in shipments of over $1 billion in routers for Juniper Networks.

Suresh has also held various engineering and manufacturing roles at Hewlett Packard.

'Loadstar Sensors is introducing some great new products based on our disruptive capacitive sensing technology.

Suresh is playing a leading role in helping us build processes that can help scale the business'.

said Div Harish, the CEO and Co-Founder of Loadstar Sensors Suresh has a B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Madras, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS in Engineering Management from Stanford University.