About Us
Arc Suppression Technologies has created products and patents that solve electrical problems that have existed since electricity was commercialized by Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse in the 1870’s. Problems that cost $tens-of-billions annually from electrical contact failures, arc-faults, and arc-flash. Today, our products are solving these problems, offering game-changing competitive advantages across a wide variety of markets.
Why Us? Why Now?
Amongst engineers and product designers, electrical arcing has not been fully understood, and has historically lacked even consistent terminology to describe the phenomena. Overall, arcing has been accepted as unavoidable, with most efforts focused on mitigation and preemptive actions to limit or slow arc damage.
Another factor is that the components and approach for electronic power contact arc suppression did not exist until the growth of semiconductor technology in the 1950’s onward.
Ultimately, it took our technology’s inventor, Reinhold Henke, to be sufficiently frustrated by contact arcing to find a solution. Reinhold is a prolific inventor, with more than 80 granted patents that include multiple “world’s first” inventions. Given the time to ponder the topic, and the freedom to think it through without constraint (two luxuries unavailable to those in industry or even most academics), Reinhold created the new industry of electronic power contact arc suppression.
Our Leadership Team
Bob Thorbus
Chief Executive Officer
RThorbus@nullArcSuppressionTechnologies.com
Achiever | Input | Ideation | Maximizer | Command
Cofounder possessing significant start-up experience and executive leadership roles with large corporations. Leadership role in four prior start-ups, including leading ALTAFI, Inc. to become the 3rd largest MCIF business intelligence platform in the financial services industry.
B.S. Industrial Engineering from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and MBA from the University of Saint Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Reinhold Henke
Chief Technology Officer
RHenke@nullArcSuppressionTechnologies.com
Learner | Maximizer | Responsibility | Strategic | Connectedness
Cofounder and the product’s inventor. Well over 30 years experience in the field, extensive patent portfolio including several “world’s first” inventions. Background in engineering design, development and management has spanned large corporations including Siemens and ADC, through successfully running his own company, CTPX, for 14 years.
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Nachrichtentechnik Fachhochschule, Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Our Legal Counsel
Our Board of Governors
- Bob Thorbus, Board Chairperson, Cofounder, and CEO
- Jon Brusven, Board Treasurer
- Reinhold Henke, Board Member, Cofounder and CTO