Xantrex Technology develops, manufactures and markets advanced power electronic products. The company’s products convert raw electrical power from any central, distributed, or backup power source into high-quality power required by electronic and electrical equipment.

 

Established	1983
Employees	600
Revenue	US$105 million/CDN$165 million (2002)
Headquarters	Headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia with facilities in Arlington, Washington; Livermore, California; Miami, Florida; Elkhart, Indiana and Barcelona, Spain
Ownership	Private
Acquisitions	Statpower (October 1999); Trace (March 2000); Heart (April 2000)
Markets	Distributed, Mobile, and Programmable Power Markets
Applications	Renewable and distributed power including solar, wind, flywheels, microturbines and fuel cells Back up and emergency portable power systems for homes and small businesses during electric grid disruptions Electrical power (auxiliary) on the move for boats, recreational vehicles, heavy duty trucks and automobiles Programmable power products to develop, test and power precision equipment such as semiconductor manufacturing and medical equipment
Management	Mossadiq Umedaly, Executive Chairman Mossadiq Umedaly, Interim President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Attridge, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Bernd Kohlstruck, Vice President, International Sales Rhonda Elton, Vice President, North American Sales Nazir Mulji, Vice President, Engineering Jim Spann, Vice President, Global Operations Karen Hall, Vice President, Human Resources Al-Karim Kara, Vice Pesident, Chief Information Officer, and Interim Chief Financial Officer
Board of Directors	Anthony Bloom, Rothschild Investment Trust PLC, London England Christopher S. Brothers, Oaktree Capital Management LLC, Los Angeles, CA David Levi, GrowthWorks Capital Ltd., Vancouver, BC Lisa Melchior, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, Toronto, Ont. Gilbert S. Palter, EdgeStone Capital Partners., Toronto, Ont. Ian A. Schapiro, GFI Energy Ventures LLC, Los Angeles, CA Mossadiq S. Umedaly, Xantrex Technology Inc., Burnaby, BC Peter van der Gracht, WaveMakers Research, Inc., Vancouver BC
Awards	One of North America's Fast 500 Companies, 2000 & 2002 (Deloitte & Touche) One of Canada's Fast 50 Companies, 2000 & 2002 (Deloitte & Touche) One of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies, 1998 & 2001 (Andersen/Deloitte & Touche) Business Excellence Award, 2001 & 2002 (Burnaby Board of Trade)
Key Customers	Applied Materials, GE Wind, Astropower, Ballard, BP Solar, Cisco, Compaq, Fleetwood, Kyocera, Monaco, Schlumberger, Siemens, Xcellsis, Sun Microsystems, Xcellsis, Canadian Tire, Costco, Sam's Club, QVC Inc., Radio Shack, TestEquity, Boat US, US Marine and West Marine.