Aspectrics, Inc. Announces New Hires To Beef Up Its Manufacturing And Software Development Capabilities

PLEASANTON, Calif., (BUSINESS WIRE) - April 11, 2005 - Aspectrics, Inc., a leading supplier of Encoded Photometric Infrared Spectroscopy (EP-IR) analyzers to OEMs, today announced the hiring of two new engineering managers to further beef up its manufacturing and software development capabilities as the company moves to ship the first full production EP-IR units.

Surinder Dhindsa joins Aspectrics from Seagate Technology as the company's manufacturing engineering manager to develop QC and engineering processes essential to the manufacture of its EP-IR instruments. Dhindsa brings to the company more than fourteen years of engineering, test development and management experience with Silicon Valley companies that include CoorsTek, Sanmina-SCI, and Maxtor/Quantum Corporation. He holds an M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Tulsa.

The company also announced the addition to the R&D staff of Anthony Ha as a senior software engineer. Under the direction of Dr. Tom Hagler, Aspectrics' founder and CTO, Mr. Ha will develop embedded systems for application-specific chemometric analyzers. Ha has fifteen years of experience in programming and embedded process systems design, first with the Johnson Space Center in Houston and, more recently, as a system engineering consultant to high-tech companies. He holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Texas in Austin.

About Aspectrics, Inc

Founded in 2000 and based in Pleasanton, California, Aspectrics Inc. supplies innovative Encoded Photometric Infrared Spectroscopy (EP-IR) analyzers to OEMs supplying detector instrumentation to chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and automotive markets. Aspectrics holds five U.S. patents for its encoding disc technology and associated optics. Aspectrics’ EP-IR technology was pioneered by founder and CTO, Thomas W. Hagler, Ph.D.

More information on Aspectrics and the EP-IR technology can be found at www.aspectrics.com