Management Team
Barry S. Howe currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Sensor Technology. Mr. Howe has served as Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Sensor Technology since April 11, 2007. Previously, Mr. Howe held various executive positions within the Thermo Electron Corporation family of companies, including President and Chief Executive Officer of Thermo Electron subsidiaries and President of several divisions. Thermo Electron Corporation provides process monitoring and control instrumentation to the metals, chemical and food and beverage industries. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Howe served as the President and Corporate Vice President of the Measurement and Control Sector. In 2006, Mr. Howe serves on the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Glenrose Instruments Inc. Mr. Howe received a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University.
Philip Yee currently serves as Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Sensor Technology. Mr. Yee has served as Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Sensor Technology since November 1, 2006. From April 2006 through November 1, 2006, Mr. Yee served as Controller of Electronic Sensor Technology. From February 2005 through April 2006, Mr. Yee was Corporate Controller of Sleepwell Laboratories, Inc., a regional healthcare provider, and its related companies. From 2001 through February 2005, Mr. Yee was Corporate Controller of BLT Enterprises, Inc., a regional recycling company and real estate developer, and its related companies. Mr. Yee received a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Gary W. Watson is the co-inventor of zNose and currently serves as the Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Watson supervises EST's technical personnel in the design and manufacture of the Company's line of equipment. This has included the development of the Model 7100 Fast Gas Analyzer, the Company's proprietary software package, MicroSense, and other support instrumentation to enhance the usefulness of the Company's line of sensing systems. Mr. Watson's expertise in gas chromatography began with the design of the XonTech Inc. GC-710 Portable Explosive Detector and the Model GC-712 Walk Through Portal explosive detection system. These products were instrumental in expanding the state of the art in explosive detection and established Mr. Watson as an expert in the field. Mr. Watson's experience includes the design of visible and infrared gas and chemical lasers for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency while at Xonics, Inc. He was the Project Engineer in charge of equipment fabrication, data acquisition and data analysis. Mr. Watson joined Amerasia Technology Inc. (the General Partner of Electronic Sensor Technology) in 1988 and directed the Company's research in adapting gas chromatographic techniques with surface acoustic wave (SAW) detectors. Mr. Watson’s efforts, as co-inventor of the zNose, resulted in several patents and the Model 4100 detection system. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in applied mechanics from the University of Southern California in 1972. He has almost 30 years experience in the applied research and design of highly technical instruments and instrumentation.
Frank Zuhde serves as Director of Marketing and Sales. He has extensive experience in the marketing and sales of instruments to commercial and governmental customers as well as experience in the design of instrumentation and operating software. He has held the positions of Associate Director of Marketing and Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Sensor Technology. His background includes District Sales Manager at Hewlett Packard, and V.P. of Finance and Operations for Demand Systems. Mr. Zuhde has a BSEE degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Pepperdine University.