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StarTrak's Executive Management Team
Tim Slifkin
CEO & Founder |
Mr. Slifkin founded StarTrak after extensive work developing a number of comprehensive wireless solutions for mobile applications. He has managed the company since its inception. He is responsible for leading the North American rail industry's definition, validation, and first successful deployments of wireless on-asset products for damage prevention, refrigeration transport, on-car weighing, and asset management applications. Mr. Slifkin has been developing remote monitoring and control systems since founding Elexor Associates in 1986, and has been developing and deploying wireless solutions (satellite and terrestrial) since 1990. He has several patents issued and pending on related technologies including rail-car dynamics, refrigeration controls and operation, and web-enabled information delivery applications.
Prior to founding StarTrak, Mr.Slifkin was a co-founder of Elexor Associates, a consulting firm delivering products and solutions for remote monitoring and control applications. That firm delivered comprehensive solutions in numerous industries including oil & gas, nuclear power, aircraft development, water quality, chemical processing, food processing, medical, marine, automotive, and transportation (rail, truck, marine, and intermodal). Elexor Customers included Boeing, Westinghouse Nuclear, Pratt & Whitney, CPC-Best Foods, Betz Chemical, Phiboro Energy, JM Petroleum, and numerous others.
Mr. Slifkin has previously been employed by,Hewlett Packard, Johansson Microwave, American Microsystems, and NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratories. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA.
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Thomas Robinson
Executive Vice President and Co-Founder |
Mr. Robinson is the executive responsible for sales and marketing, product management, business development and major program deliveries at StarTrak. He has been closely involved in the systems development, network completion, customer commitments, and deployments for all major products of the Company. Mr. Robinson is an expert in freight-oriented supply chain networks using wireless monitoring and control systems.
Prior to joining StarTrak, Mr. Robinson was responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions at Varlen Corporation, which was acquired in 1999 by Amsted Industries for $750 million. While at Varlen, Mr. Robinson acquired 14 companies in North America and Europe, including both public and private companies. Varlen grew 300% during Mr. Robinson's tenure at the company.
Before joining Varlen, Mr. Robinson was a principal at WGC Enterprises, Inc., a Chicago-based private equity group, focused on industry consolidations of systems integrators and technical staffing companies. Prior to Varlen, Mr. Robinson was a Program Manager at Hughes Aircraft, a leader in large air defense and air traffic control systems deployments worldwide with 30 major systems installed in more than 30 countries. Mr. Robinson was responsible for the sale, development, and installation of international Air Traffic Control systems and successful delivered a major program controlling the southern German airspace. Before Hughes Aircraft, Mr. Robinson was a design Engineer for British Petroleum.
Mr. Robinson has received Bachelors and Masters of Science Degrees in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He also received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
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Herb Perten
Director, Engineering |
Mr. Perten has over 30 years experience in the data acquisition field and is responsible for all technical issues within Startrak. Reporting to him are the embedded hardware, embedded software, mechanical design and IT groups. The holder of several patents, Mr. Perten led the development of StarTrak's LoadWeigh, and ride quality product lines as well as the architecture and implementation of the ReeferTrak® Scout, Sentry and Commander product lines.
Prior to joining StarTrak, he designed instrumentation for high energy physics as well as cardiac ultrasound and catheterization equipment.
Mr. Perten holds a BSEE from The City College of New York and a MSEE from Polytechnic Institute of New York.
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William T. Walker, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP
Director, Quality Assurance |
Mr. Walker is responsible for all aspects of quality assurance across the StarTrak supply chain. He is a practitioner and author with 35 years of experience from Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and Siemens Building Technologies. Mr. Walker has designed, optimized, and operated supply chain networks around the world. His professional managerial experience includes product development, manufacturing, purchasing, materials management, supply chain management, and quality.
He is the author of several books including Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash, and has delivered seminars on the principles of supply chain management in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the United States, the UK, Holland, Germany, and South Africa. Mr. Walker served many years as a volunteer director of APICS; the professional society for operations management, where he introduced advanced supply chain management logistics and network infrastructure topics into APICS courseware. He is a past president of the APICS Educational & Research Foundation.
Mr. Walker holds both BSEE and MSIE degrees from Lehigh University. He is a Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management, a 25-year member of APICS, and a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.
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John W. Costello
Director Manufacturing & Field Operations |
Mr. Costello is responsible for manufacturing and equipment delivery operations at StarTrak. In addition, he is also responsible for field installation and commissioning, field inventory and the commercial relationships of StarTrak's installation partners. Mr. Costello joined StarTrak in 2005 and has assumed a critical role in the company's growth. Prior to StarTrak, Mr. Costello was a Manufacturing Manager at Thor Industries. He has previously held professional roles in manufacturing, purchasing, materials management, supply chain management, master scheduling. He has extensive training and certifications in Lean Manufacturing practices and has successfully executed practices that have yielded the company significant savings
Mr. Costello is an APICS member and is CPIM certified (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) and is a member of the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM). He holds a BS in Business from Rutgers University.
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