The Company

Instrument Manufacturing Company was incorporated in the State of Delaware in August 1995.  Its headquarter is in Storrs, Connecticut, within the outer campus of the University of Connecticut.  The company operates under an exclusive license from the University on a patented technology developed by Professor Matthew S. Mashikian et al., and covering instruments for the location of partial discharge (PD) sites in medium and high voltage shielded power cables.  Professor Mashikian, presently Emeritus, is the founder of the Company, and its President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  A European office, IMCORP Europe, BVBA, is located in Lochristi (Gent), Belgium with Frank Verschraegen as the General Manager.

Profiles

Matthew Mashikian, Dr. Eng.

Dr. Mashikian is the founder of IMCORP.  He is presently its Chief Technical Officer (CTO), its President and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO).   Born in 1933, Dr. Mashikian obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and a Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Detroit.  Dr. Mashikian worked 5 years for ASEA (now ABB) first as a sales engineer and, later, as an applications engineer for lightning arresters.  He worked 16 years for Detroit Edison Company where he assumed the position of Supervising Engineer in the Engineering Research Department, and 4 years as an independent consultant.  From 1983 until his retirement in 1997, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Electrical Insulation Research Center at the University of Connecticut.  Dr. Mashikian is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, a Past Chairman of the Insulated Conductors Committee of IEEE/PES, a past chairman of the Education Committee of IEEE/DEIS, a past industry advisor to EPRI, and a past member of CIGRE WG 15-6.  He holds a dozen patents and has published extensively on cables, dielectrics, diagnostic systems and electric vehicles.

Bruce Broussard, CSE

Bruce joined IMCORP as Vice President of Operations, North America in April of 2006.  Prior to joining IMCORP, Bruce spent 24 years with Eaton Corporation’s Electrical Group. While there, he held several geographic sales assignments for Eaton Cutler-Hammer from 1982 to 1989. After a brief headquarter market management assignment in 1990, Bruce became the District Manager in Cincinnati, OH in 1991. With the purchase of Westinghouse’s DCBU operation in 1994, Bruce moved to the group’s new headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA where he held the Commercial Marketing Manager assignment. In 1997, Bruce became the Vice President of OEM Sales.  Then in 2002, Bruce took over the leadership of the Strategic Sales Operations for the Industrial and Institutional market segments.  Bruce obtained his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Louisiana State University in 1982.  He is a graduate of the Syracuse Graduate School of Sales and Marketing Management program and served on the Syracuse University Graduate School of Sales and Marketing Management Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2003.  Bruce obtained his Certified Sales Executive status through the Sales and Marketing Executives International organization in 1994.  In 1995, Bruce was recognized as the International Sales and Marketing Executive of the Year by Sales and Marketing Executives International.  Bruce has also been active in Junior Achievement where he volunteered as a Board of Director member for the Southwest Pennsylvania Chapter 2001-2005.

Frank Verschraegen

Born in 1964, Frank Verschraegen obtained a Master's degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium and a Master's degree in Industrial Management from the University of Louvain, Belgium.  He worked 6 years for Samsonite Europe, Oudenaarde, Belgium, first as an engineer and later as manager for different departments in the Supply Chain and Business Planning area.  After international, technical-commercial assignments in Watlow Electric GmbH, Flemisch Institute of Technological Research (VITO) and i2 Technologies, he joined IMCORP in 2000.