Leadership Team

Paul joined HED in 2008.  He has over 25 years of leadership experience in the electronics and semiconductor industries at both private and publicly held companies.  Prior to HED, Paul was the CEO of Acumium LLC (Madison, WI), a developer of web content management systems; President at Advanced Photonix (Ann Arbor, MI) a publicly-held custom optoelectronics company; President and co-owner at Silicon Sensors (Dodgeville, WI), also a custom optoelectronics company; and he held various roles in sales, marketing and business development at Honeywell International.  Paul has a BSEE from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management).

Chris joined HED in 2009.  He oversees all sales, marketing and application engineering functions at HED.  His background includes over 15 years of sales & marketing and engineering leadership positions at HUSCO International (Waukesha, WI), Bosch Automation (Racine, WI) and J.M. Grimstad (Milwaukee, WI).  Chris holds a BSEE, an MSEE and an MBA, all from the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE).

Dennis joined the HED team in 2010.  He is responsible for all engineering and product development functions at the Company.  Dennis has over 20 years of experience in engineering management, electronic design & development and project management at Harley Davidson (Milwaukee, WI) and Caterpillar (Peoria, IL).  He holds a BSEE degree from Michigan Tech and an MBA from Bradley University. 

Tom leads our operations, assembly and quality assurance teams. He joined HED in 2007.  He is an accomplished operations executive with over 20 years of experience in world class manufacturing and international sourcing.  Tom has held prior operations leadership positions at Xymox Technologies (Milwaukee, WI), MTI Electronics (Menominee Falls, WI) and Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI).  He holds a BBA from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh.

Carrie has over 20 years of service at HED.  She oversees all HR, Administrative and Finance functions at HED, including employee development and outside contractors.  She holds a Bachelors of Administration in Accounting from Silver Lake College (Manitowoc, WI).  Carrie serves on the board of directors for the Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce, and was Chamber President from 2008-2009.