About Us
Senscient was founded in January 2004
by Mr. Lee Richman, to develop, manufacture and market advanced
gas detection products for industrial safety, environmental
monitoring and process control / analysis applications. The
technology developed by Senscient to meet the demands of these
applications is "Enhanced
Laser Diode Spectroscopy", a truly revolutionary
gas detection and measurement technology.
The advantages of ELDS™ technology compared
to the currently available gas detection technologies include
open path detection of both toxic and flammable gases by a
single unit, remote electronic functional testing of detectors
(SimuGas™), no un-revealed failure modes, high sensitivity,
and significantly reduced installation and maintenance costs.
Enhanced Laser Diode Spectroscopy (ELDS)
is protected by a strong IPR portfolio, including four UK
patent applications and a consolidated international patent
application. Senscient’s ELDS patent portfolio was reviewed
by the UK Patent Office as part of The Department of Trade
and Industry’s (DTI’s) assessment of the company’s application
for a SMART Research & Development (R&D) Grant. This review
contributed to Senscient winning a SMART R&D Grant in July
2004, to ‘Prove Enhanced Laser Diode Spectroscopy for the
Sensitive Detection of Hazardous Gases’. This R&D project
has enabled Senscient to prove its ELDS technology and to
move forward with product commercialization in 2008.
Safety is everyone's business, and our
Commercialization Partners are helping us to help future Senscient
customers gain new reliability in plant and facility monitoring.
THANK YOU to participating Senscient ELDS Trial Partners,
including Shell E&P USA, BP Alaska, Enterprise Products, Conoco
Phillips Alaska, Lyondell Refining, Shell UK, Shell E & P
USA, BP Illinois, Exxon Mobil, Baytown TX, DOW Ternuzen, Valero,
Petrobras Brazil, Shell NAM.
The Senscient Team - Innovation + Expertise
+ Market Savvy
Mr. Richman, Senscient’s Managing Director,
has extensive experience in the design, regulatory approval,
manufacture and support of gas detection equipment. He is
joined by a number of experienced personnel from within the
gas detection industry, many of whom have worked together
as a team in the past. The Senscient team has a very clear
vision of the future of line-of-site gas detection and are
determined to bring products to market to significantly improve
the way our customers protect property and personnel.
Senscient’s
Strategic Distribution Partner
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Dooley Tackaberry Systems Integration Group Corporate
Headquarters
P.O. Box 9700, Deer Park, Texas, 77536
Phone: 281-479-9700
Fax: 281-881-0144
Internet: www.dtihome.com |
Senscient’s Preferred
Supplier
Senscient’s Product Commercialization
Focus Team Members – Our thanks for your input, guidance,
and feedback!
- Shell Global Solutions in Thornton, UK
- Shell Exploration in Houston, TX and
New Orleans, LA, USA
- Enterprise Oil in Houston, Texas, USA
- NANA-Colt Engineering in Anchorage, Alaska,
USA
- BP, Alaska in Anchorage, AK, USA
- BP in Houston, Texas, USA
- Bayer Chemical in Baytown, Texas, USA
 Lee Richman - Managing Director
Lee Richman, the founder of Senscient is
a recognised authority on infrared gas detection with 15 years
experience of the design and manufacture of products using advanced
electro-optic technology. He has experience of the design, manufacture
and support of a wide range of products and technologies including
infrared gas detectors, videophones, acousto-optic spectrum analysers
and medical diagnostic instrumentation. Lee has been awarded
or cited upon patents in the fields of gas detection, electronic
warfare and video-telephony.
Between 1994 and 1996, he was responsible
for starting up the development of infrared gas detectors at
Crowcon Detection Instruments, developing their first infrared
point detector, Cirrus. He joined Zellweger Analytics in 1996
to head up their Optics team and subsequently led the development
of Searchline Excel, the most successful open path gas detector
on the market. Up until the end of 2003, when Lee left Zellweger
to set up Senscient, he was Zellweger's design authority for
optical products and played a major role in ensuring that Zellweger
remained the market leader in infrared gas detection.
Lee was born in 1966 and educated in the
UK. He has a MEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
from the University of Bradford.
 Jean
Berthold - Sales and Marketing Director
Jean Berthold, the Sales and Marketing Director,
is known throughout the gas detection and analysis industry with
extensive experience developing promotional sales and marketing
strategies for both domestic and international markets. Jean
is a creative, high-energy individual dedicated to the successful
running of a division or sales and marketing operation with the
highest emphasis on the development of customer relationships
and the effective hiring, training and motivation of talented
and capable distribution partners.
Her experience over the past 17 years consists
of strong and consistent personal and professional growth in
the fields of high tech capital equipment sales and marketing
with various global industrial instrumentation companies including
the past seven years with Zellweger Analytics. Jean’s style
has been described as a balance of entrepreneurial, out-of-the-box
thinking with a solid foundation in the basics of selling skills
and strategic planning.
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