About Us
Senscient, Ltd. 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 (Simu-Gas™),
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 the company
is now looking to secure financing for the commercial exploitation
of ELDS.
Mr. Richman, Senscient’s Managing
Director, has extensive experience of 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 team have a very clear vision of the
future of gas detection and are determined to bring products
to market to significantly improve the way our customers protect
their 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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