Simon Alain
Simon has a Bachelor's degree in science and is the product manager for Inspection Solutions at Olympus. For more than 14 years, Simon has overseen the introduction of numerous innovative portable scanning devices and inspection solutions, bringing improved ultrasound data acquisition to the market.
Aaron Baensch
Aaron is a diversified Mineral Exploration & Mining Geologist with 20+ years industry experience, spanning analytical products, consulting, mining operations & mineral exploration. Aaron is the Principal Geologist – International Mining Group (IMG) for Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas (OSSA) headquartered in Boston, MA, USA. He is also an embedded researcher & project manager at the Deep Exploration Technologies – Commonwealth Research Cooperative (DET CRC) based in
Adelaide, Australia & co-inventor of the recently commercialized Lab-At-Rig® product (now with Imdex-Reflex).
Aaron has been working with Olympus (and formerly Innov-X Systems) since 2008 and has become an Industry Specialist in the application of field portable x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction and microscopy for mineral exploration, mining, mineral processing, environmental and petroleum applications. He is currently focused on the research & development and business development of real-time mineral analysis technologies, including the adaption of systems used by NASA on the Mars Curiosity
Rover for terrestrial mineral analysis.
Professionally, Aaron is a qualified Geologist and graduate of the Western Australian School of Mines, Kalgoorlie (WASM) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mineral Exploration & Mining Geology with 1st Class Honours. Prior to joining Olympus, Aaron spent time with Barrick Gold, Outokumpu, Mincor Resources, Straits Resources and Breakaway Resources working in a variety of management and operational roles, throughout Australia & Canada in various gold, nickel and copper deposits. Aaron is
a Member of the AusIMM, AIG, SEG, AAG, GSA & WASMGA.
Aaron is also a qualified snowboard instructor and when not working, you can find him hitting up the slopes in the USA, Canada, NZ & Australia, as well as wake boarding, fishing & kayaking with his family in the summer time.
Robert Bellinger
Rob Bellinger is a product applications manager for industrial microscopes at Evident. He has been part of Evident for more than 15 years. He currently provides application support for our industrial microscope systems in the US, Canada, and Latin America.
Damien Blondel
Damien Blondel joined Evident in 2011 after living in Denmark, where he was a product manager of measurement systems for diagnostics and research into fluid mechanics. Currently, he is the global director of product marketing for analytical instruments and is based in Paris, France. His background is in mechanics (master's degree) and he holds a PhD in physics.
Tommy Bourgelas
Tommy Bourgelas has worked at Evident for over 23 years. Prior to his current position, which includes overseeing the OmniScan™ X3 product line, he worked as a product manager for other in-service portable NDT product lines, including the OmniScan ECA, MultiScan MS5800™, NORTEC™, and BondMaster™ inspection devices. Throughout his career, Tommy has contributed to the development of probes and applications, worked to improve existing products and software features, and has performed numerous trainings.
Jose Brum
After graduating from college, Jose joined the Duracell Research Center in Needham, Massachusetts where he worked in the X-ray department. His duties included working with both wavelength dispersive XRF (WDXRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). He went on to continue working in WDXRF and benchtop XRD at another company before joining Olympus in 2005.
Dane Burkett
Dane Burkett completed his PhD in applied geology at the University of New South Wales, and his research concerned the genesis of the Kulumadau epithermal gold deposit on Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea. Dane received the university medal for his undergraduate studies and first class honors for his thesis on the Bentley volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in Western Australia. From 2015 to 2020, Dane Burkett worked with Evident's line of analytical instruments to develop applications, especially within the natural resources sector from exploration to material handling and mineral processing. He also provided technical and application support to Evident customers in a variety of fields, including oil and gas exploration, maintenance, research, medical, forensics, mining, and mineral processing. Prior to his work with Evident, Dane worked as an exploration geologist targeting copper and gold mineralization and as a research assistant in the UNSW XRD laboratory, analyzing samples for coal and oil and gas companies.
Jennifer Caban
Jennifer Caban is an Applications Specialist and Sales Engineer with Olympus Corporation of the Americas. She has over eight years’ experience working with X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction technologies in pre- and post-sales support functions. In her current role, Jennifer travels extensively throughout the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, training the Olympus sales force, and working with customers in a wide range of industries. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Environmental Economics from Bates College. She is also fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.
Joel Drapeau
Joel joined Olympus in 2014 and is part of the OmniScan PA/UT product management team. He holds a B.Sc and a B.Eng, both in physics, and is focused on solving phased array applications challenges in multiple industries. As a Product Application Leader, he provides phased array and OmniScan support to Olympus teams worldwide as well as participating in the development of future OmniScan products.
Peter Faulkner
Peter has held sales and marketing positions within the analytical instrument field for over twenty years.
He received his BA in metallurgy from the University of Sheffield, UK and has many years’ experience within the metals and mining industries, including steel manufacturing, mining equipment, molten metal control sensors, and industrial gases prior to his work within the analytical instrument market.
Peter has worked in these industries in South Africa, the UK, and the US. He is married to Gill and they have two daughters; all are also “mad scientists.”
Sam Habib
Sam is a physicist based in Sydney, Australia and has been working with Olympus since 2011. He is an industry specialist in the application of field portable X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction technology for mineral exploration, industrial applications, mining and environmental applications, forensics, and archaeology.
Professionally, Sam has over 15 years’ experience across key scientific markets, business consulting, sales and marketing management, and product development. He is a graduate of Sydney University in applied physics and has an MBA from the University of NSW.
Dianne Hillhouse
Dianne has more than 18 years of experience with laboratory and handheld X-ray fluorescence technology, most recently focusing on industrial metal and alloy applications. She currently provides business development for the inspection services industry.
Todd Houlahan(国際鉱山ディレクター)
Todd graduated from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1993 with a degree in soils and hydrology. For the past 18 years, Todd has been a leader in the portable XRF revolution in the mineral exploration and mining industries, publishing numerous papers on the subject and presenting at international conferences. For the past 10 years, Todd has led Olympus’ International Mining Group helping explorers, miners, and their shareholders achieve cost efficiencies by using the best portable XRF and XRD technology solutions.
Michael W. Hull
Michael Hullは、Evidentの分析機器部門のシニアプロダクトマネージャーです。蛍光X線分析計のユーザーが各々に合うソリューションを見つけられるように日々サポートを行っています。ノートルダム大学で無機化学の博士号を取得し、現在は、X線分析法を活用した構造特性解析、化学組成特定、解析同定に取り組んでいます。Evidentに入社する以前はノースウェスト・ミズーリ州立大学で教鞭をとっており、現在もライス大学とコロラド鉱山大学で客員研究員を務めています。
Charles Janecka
Charles Janecka holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Texas State University. He has worked as an automation engineer, a field service technician for medical scanners, a sales engineer, and a product application specialist and manager. Charles worked with Evident's range of remote visual inspection equipment for more than 10 years.
Frank Lafleur
Frank joined Olympus in 2011. Previously, he studied electro-mechanical engineering and spent more than 10 years working in HVAC and electronics manufacturing. Frank currently spends more than 50% of his time traveling the Americas consulting with customers about their RVI needs.
Marcus Lake
Marcus is responsible for supporting global sales and distribution networks for Olympus XRF and XRD products. This includes technical training, supporting global conferences, visiting key customers, and visiting client sites for demonstrations and calibration work. The highlight of Marcus' role is developing new business in emerging markets.
Dillon McDowell
Dillon McDowell is a senior applications scientist at Evident, specializing in using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and other analytical technologies in alloy, precious metals, and regulatory (RoHS and consumer product safety) applications. Before joining Evident, Dillon was a research assistant at Northeastern University’s Nanomagnetism Research Group. Dillon has a Bachelor of Science in physics and a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University and has been published in the Journal of Material Chemistry C.
Ghislain Morais
Since 2012, Ghislain Morais has been an eddy current and bond testing product leader for Evident. He is responsible for the global support of conventional eddy current, eddy current array, conventional bond testing, and bond testing C-scan technology. Prior to joining us, he spent 18 years working in the aircraft maintenance business as a metallurgist and in NDT inspections. He has experience and certifications in several of the NDT methods that are used in the aerospace industry.
Tom Nelligan
Tom worked in the NDT business for more than 30 years and helped Olympus develop numerous technological solutions to meet the needs of our customers.
Karen Paklin
Karen is an applications scientist based in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. She has been working with Olympus since 2014 and supports the Olympus X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction product lines to assist with the development of new products. She is dedicated to sustaining and improving XRF and XRD instruments and enjoys working with clients, research & development, and service.
Karen has a Chemical Engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Emilie Peloquin
Emilie Peloquin has been working in the welding/NDT industry since 2009. She holds an associate degree in applied science and is educated in a wide variety of NDT methods. She joined Evident in 2014 and has held positions ranging from technical support to product management, focusing on ultrasonic, phased array, and other advanced inspection technologies. In her current role, she supports a variety of applications across numerous industries. Emilie is also heavily involved in codes and standards development for ultrasonic techniques and was elected in 2022 to the board of directors for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT).
Francesco Piscani
Francesco provides Olympus customers and sales staff throughout the eastern United States, Canada, and Latin America with product and applications support for industrial microscopy products, including metallurgical, measuring, and digital microscopes; semiconductor equipment; and image analysis software.
Hamish Rossell
A member of the Olympus team since 2016, Hamish provides product and application support for Olympus industrial microscope systems throughout the Americas. He is an expert in inspection applications, image analysis, measurement, and reporting, as well as custom optical solutions, with an emphasis on technical cleanliness and semiconductor equipment.
Ted Shields
Ted has worked at Olympus for more than 11 years and has overseen the introduction of numerous innovations to the XRF product lines with a focus on bringing laboratory-quality data to the portable market. Ted has a Master's degree in Applied Physics and holds four patents.
Marc Silverstein
Marc has worked for Olympus since 1998 and manages the operation of advanced industrial microscopes and imaging software systems. From design to launch, Marc plays an integral role in the development and support of today's newest optical metrology hardware and software.
Alex Thurston
Alex Thurston holds a master’s degree in materials science and engineering, and his work has been published in journals and technical conference proceedings. From 2015–2022, he was an applications engineering manager at Evident specializing in using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and other technologies for a range of applications. He previously worked as a materials scientist with a focus on metallurgy in the metals processing and electronics manufacturing industries.
Florin Turcu
Florin joined Olympus Europe in 2014 as an Application Specialist in advanced ultrasound technologies like phased array and guided waves. With a degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in NDT-related engineering, Florin’s background includes 9 years in research and development in the field of guided wave ultrasonics.
Michelle Wright
Michelle Wright has more than nine years of experience in marketing communications and works in the analytical instruments business at Evident to promote X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers. She works closely with product, engineering, and application groups to assist with launching new products, creating webinars, and writing application notes.
Jennifer Wrigley
Part of the Olympus organization for more than ten years, Jennifer is responsible for product design and development as well as the downstream marketing of Olympus industrial microscopy products in the Americas. She specializes in both technical cleanliness and semiconductor equipment.
Xin Yang
Since joining Olympus in 2016, Xin has been responsible for the Olympus OEM business and customized scientific solution business in the Americas. She holds a Ph.D. in optical engineering and specializes in advanced microscopy technologies, optical component integration and applications, and customized optical solutions.
Terri Thomas
Terri is a Sales Engineer based in Olympus’ phased array probe factory in State College, PA and holds UT and PA Level I training certifications. She has held various positions at Olympus including shipping/receiving, commercial operations, and product management. Before coming to Olympus, she worked as a Junior Engineer and a Manufacturing/Quality Manager at two large manufacturing companies.
André Lamarre
André Lamarre is a graduate of engineering physics and holds a master’s degree in materials science. In 1994, he joined R/D Tech, a leader in NDT equipment, where much of his work has concentrated on ultrasonic phased array technology, both as an application engineer and product line manager. He has accumulated more than 20 years of experience in phased array ultrasonics. André Lamarre is now the business development director for cloud and IoT solutions at Evident.
Liam Hanna
Liam started by joining the Olympus Consumer Imaging Division as an Imaging Specialist and has transferred these skills to the Scientific Solutions Division over the last 5 years. As Product and Application Specialist for Remote Visual Inspection within the EMEA a dynamic approach is required in order to provide customers with the best possible solution. With a strong customer focus, Liam has spent many years traveling throughout Europe, The Middle East, Africa, Russia and Asia to work closely with Olympus stakeholders, namely global organizations, distributors and end users for support or acquisition, learning from them in order to help develop market driven products for the future.
Markus Fabich
Markus Fabichは、ドイツ、ハンブルクに拠点をおくEvidentでマーケティング戦略担当のシニアマネージャーを務めています。2003年にEvidentに入社し、ハイエンド顕微鏡のテクニカルサービスやマテリアルサイエンス用顕微鏡のアプリケーションサポートなど多くの分野で経験を積んできました。 2003年ケルン大学応用科学部よりフォトエンジニアの学位を授与されていますが、大学での論文は回折光学素子に焦点を当てたものでした。
Mina Hong
Dr. Mina Hong is an application scientist at Olympus, specializing in industrial microscopes. She holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and has worked in material science and surface characterization for more than 8 years. With technical knowledge and experience in atomic force microscopy, light microscopes, digital microscopes, laser confocal microscopes, and scanning electron microscopes, Mina actively works with material scientists and engineers in industry and academia.
Azer Gunes
Since joining Evident in 2017, Azer has been responsible for materials science microscopy and imaging software systems in Hamburg, Germany. She holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering as well as an MSc in management. As a product marketing manager, Azer works with product managers and sales specialists to support and develop industrial microscopy products, including conventional, measuring, and stereo microscopes, as well as image analysis software.
Dr. Norbert Radomski
Norbert Radomski has been part of the Evident organization for more than 20 years and has broad experience in microscopy and digital microscopical imaging. He is a project manager for the EVIDENT Technology Center Europe in Germany.
Rebecca Chandler
Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Endicott College and writes about trends and technologies in science and industry. She works closely with Evident engineers and scientists to write pieces about the latest remote visual, microscope, ultrasonic, eddy current, and phased array technologies. Follow her work to learn about Evident’s latest for numerous applications, including manufacturing QA/QC, maintenance, mining, and more.
Sarah Williams
Sarah Williamsは約10年間、放送業界で研究者およびコピーライターとして活動しています。ライターおよび編集者としてのスキルを活かし、Evidentの幅広い非破壊検査(NDT)ソリューションについて説得力のある、クオリティの高い原稿を提供しています。遠隔目視、マイクロスコープ、超音波、渦流探傷、フェイズドアレイなどの最新技術を取り上げ、世界各地におけるこれらの技術の活用や品質および安全性向上への貢献についても調査しています。ケベック・シティのオフィスに勤務し、パートナーと3人の子どもたちと共に暮らしています。
Yosuke Kobayashi
When Joining Olympus in 2003, Yosuke started out as an Industrial Laser Scanning Microscope Specialist (LEXT Series) in the Sales Department. Subsequently he moved to the Marketing Department where he was involved in the planning of the new digital microscope (DSX1000). In 2018 Yosuke transferred to Olympus Europe where he has since been working as a Digital Microscopy Marketing Manager.
Greg Bauer
Greg is the Product Manager of Cloud & IoT Solutions at Olympus Scientific Solutions. Greg is passionate about listening and building relationships, enabling him to identify customer pain points and apply innovative and effective digital solutions to improve their workflows. Greg is a member of the Gas Producers Suppliers Association (GPSA) and presented on Improving Thickness Data Management Using Cloud-Based Applications at the 2019 GPA Midstream Fall Technical Conference.
Guan-Lu Zhang
Guan-Lu Zhang joined Evident with 10+ years of experience from aerospace, medtech, and industry. He is currently part of the Evident Digital Solutions team after several years of experience in product marketing for remote visual inspection (RVI) equipment. His background is in mechanical engineering and robotics.
Megan Farell
Megan Farell joined Olympus in 2020 as a technical sales support specialist for industrial microscopes. She has seven years of research experience, and her work involved various types of microscopy. She completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Tennessee and her PhD in chemical engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.
Betsy Kenaston
Betsy has a technical sales and content marketing background. From 2020 to 2022, Betsy worked with Evident's portable nondestructive testing (NDT) portfolio of ultrasonic thickness gauges, flaw detectors, and their solutions. She holds a bachelor's degree and master's degree from Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
Dr. Peter Büscher
Peter Büscher has been with Evident for more than 25 years and has broad experience with various application developments in the digital microscopy field. He is the application specialist for technical cleanliness in the product group for materials science and industrial equipment at the EVIDENT Technology Center Europe in Germany.
Daly Souissi
Daly Souissi is an NDT professional specialized in advanced applications and training. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a Master of Science degree in applied science. He is certified UT and PAUT Level III. With a broad range of international experience, he has participated in numerous inspection projects in the nuclear, oil & gas, and steel structure industries. Daly joined Evident in 2019 as global markets director. He is involved in business development and NDT product and solutions global support.
Josh Litofsky
Josh Litofsky holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Beloit College and PhD in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. For his PhD, he focused his research on advanced characterization of designer materials using X-ray diffraction. From 2019 to 2022, Josh brought his expertise to Evident as an application scientist, supporting our X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers to provide enhanced solutions to customers. In his free time, Josh enjoys running and has run the fastest 100k in the state of Pennsylvania.
Dominique Blanchette
Dominique holds a bachelor’s degree in translation and a college diploma in avionics. She began her career in 2000 as an avionics technician, and then worked several years as a translator and a technical writer. In 2009, Dominique joined Evident as a technical writer, and has since evolved into the roles of Senior Manager of Technical Communication and Marketing, Translation team leader, and MarCom leader for NDT products and solutions.
Dr. Christina Hesseling
Christina Hesseling is experienced in product management of system and software solutions involving applied optics, microscopy, computer science, and robotics. From 2020–2023, Christina was a product manager for materials science and industrial equipment at the EVIDENT Technology Center Europe. She enjoys working with researchers and engineers in academia and industry from around the world.
Yvan Bisson
Takuma Saito
Takuma joined the Industrial Microscope sales team at Olympus Tokyo in 2011. After developing a strong relationship with electronic component manufacturers in Japan, he is currently leading the sales development projects for our laser scanning microscope and digital microscope products.
Lauren Dos Santos
Lauren Dos Santos studied chemistry and biological sciences and is a trained analytical chemist. She brought her experience to Evident, where she worked as a product specialist for our analytical instruments. In this role, she assisted with the innovation of our X-ray fluorescence (XRF) product lines by conducting product research and development for our handheld XRF analyzers. Lauren has also conducted many XRF trainings, classes, and demonstrations.
Kristopher Lee
2019年にオリンパスに入社し、ウェブスターのテキサス支店を拠点とします。 当社の販売および製品管理チームと協業し、北米と南米でオリンパスブランドと顧客基盤の成長を支えています。 サポートしている製品群には、工業用顕微鏡、分析機、非破壊試験機器、工業用ビデオスコープなどがあります。
Junko Uehara
Junko has held various positions providing remote visual inspection solutions since joining Olympus in 2002. She has experience in global marketing, marketing communications, and videoscopes and their applications.
François Vicat
François has a background in NDT and, more specifically, in ultrasound. He has held positions in sales, technical support, product management, sales management, and marketing in NDT for the last 30 years.
Michika Suzuki
Michika joined Olympus in 2018 with a sales and marketing background in the steel industry. She specializes in marketing remote visual inspection (RVI) equipment in Asia.
Masateru Ito
Masateru Ito joined Evident in 2008 with an intellectual property background in the solar energy system and electronic components industry. He has held various positions supporting Evident’s remote visual inspection (RVI) solutions in the product management and marketing field.
Jeffrey Wells
Jeff joined Evident Scientific at the beginning of 2010 after graduating from The Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Jeff served in the United States Army Reserve for 13 years as a Major in the Engineering Corp. In June of 2021, he accepted the role as Systems Integrations Sales Manager of the Americas. His focus is on integrated inspection systems, which includes everything from legacy bar and tube systems to Evidents’ custom robotic inspection systems.
Philip Graham
Phil Graham has undergraduate degrees in history and anthropology, a master’s degree in the humanities from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Connecticut. He spent many years teaching writing-intensive college courses before joining Evident. Phil enjoys using his training in the social sciences to communicate with the public about advanced technologies and products.
Stephan Couture
Stephan worked with Olympus at the product development and as a Product Specialist for 9 years. In 2017, he transitioned to work in the inspection world to gather more applicative knowledge with the boots on the ground. In 2019, Stephan rejoined Olympus as a leader for Global Advanced Product Application. Stephan is now supporting worldwide on applications, trainings, and industry projects as an Ultrasonic advanced products specialist.
Masakazu Wada
Masa provides global technical support for remote visual inspections. With almost 30 years of experience in application support for the aviation and power generation industries, Masa pays close attention to the customer workflow to offer simple, effective solutions.
Ryan Chen
Ryan has worked at Olympus for more than 9 years and has strong background for RVI business, rich experience for RVI products, Applications and sales management. Ryan has dual background for business administration and Engineering.
Linna Wang
Wang has been working at Olympus for more than 7 years, working with customers conducting scientific research using industrial microscopes. Wang has a master’s degree in material science engineering.
Shuyou Liu
Shuyou Liu has worked in the inspection industry since 2009. After joining Olympus, he took on the role of technical support manager to support Olympus’ NDT customers. He is experienced with many NDT technologies, including conventional ultrasonics (UT), phased array (PA), eddy current (ECT), and eddy current array (ECA).
Marcel Lucas
Marcel graduated from the University of Manchester, England with a Ph.D. in Material Science. Following this, he completed a series of postdoctoral positions in the United States. First, at Georgia Tech, Marcel continued his work on nanomaterials using Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy. Marcel then went to Los Alamos National Laboratory where he used fluorescence and Raman microscopy to investigate the effects of different pre-treatments on wood and how to pre-treat them so they can be converted into biofuels.
Marcel later worked at Washington State University where he studied the phase transformation of graphite to diamond under shock compression. Marcel then relocated to Houston, Texas and worked in the private sector; first, as a project engineer in a materials testing lab, and then as a technical and sales support specialist at Olympus.
Edwin Zheng
Edwin Zheng is an application specialist at Evident’s China office. With more than five years’ experience with X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technologies in pre- and post-sales support. he is dedicated to visiting customers and developing new markets in China. Edwin has a master’s degree in material analysis from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Liu Pei
Liu Pei joined Olympus in 2012 and is based in our Jiuxianqiao office in Beijing, China. He works with our sales and marketing teams to promote Olympus NDT product lines and provides technical support of our customers’ applications, including performing on-site demonstrations and training and assisting in application solution development
Harry Guo
Harry joined Olympus in 2015 and is based in our Beijing office. He works with our sales and application teams to help improve the application of NDT products. He also uses his expertise to provide support to customers, both prior to and post-purchase, for our advanced phased array instruments, portable NDT instruments, and system integration services.
Hafees Fraisada
Hafees Fraisada is a manager of indirect sales in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region at Evident. Prior to his current role, he was a member of Evident's remote visual inspection team based in Hamburg, Germany. Hafees has more than 15 years’ experience in the medical and industrial industries, a background in science, and a master’s degree in international business administration.
Howard Yu
Howard Yu is an application specialist for analytical instruments at Evident based in Beijing, China. He has been with Evident since 2019 and supports the Evident X-ray fluorescence (XRF) product lines to provide enhanced solutions to customers. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in geology, he received a master’s degree in mineralogy, petrology, and mineralogy of deposits from the Hefei University of Technology. Howard works with customers from a variety of backgrounds, including oil and gas exploration, maintenance, research, medical, forensics, mining, and mineral processing.
Andrew Cardamone
Andrew Cardamone has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and environmental studies from Bowdoin College. From 2018–2022, Andrew was an applications scientist at Evident specializing in X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and other analytical technologies for geochemical, soil, and car catalyst applications. Prior to Evident, Andrew spent seven years working as a material analytical chemist.
Vladimir Vermus
Vladimir Vermus has a bachelor’s degree from Moscow Mining University and 10 years’ experience in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis at Evident. He started as a sales engineer with four years in direct sales, then later managed the development of XRF analytical instrument sales in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Vladimir currently specializes in marketing, sales, and applications for XRF analyzers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Rod Matheson
Rod Matheson has more than 20 years’ experience in sales and marketing for inspection and measurement solutions used in a wide variety of industrial applications. He has supported and developed business in both the UK and the wider EMEA region with some of the world’s largest manufacturers, service providers, and educational institutes.
David Cohen 教授(会長)
David Cohen教授は地質学者であり探査地球化学者でもあります。 また、UNSW大学理事会会長とAustralian Geoscience Council会長を務め、応用地球化学者協会の元会長であり銀メダル受賞者、そしてオーストラリア地球科学研究所およびニューサウスウェールズ王立協会の会員です。 2009年から2016年までは、School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciencesの学長を務めました。 Cohen教授は、オーストラリア、ヨーロッパ、アジア、中東、北アメリカにおいて、探査および環境地球化学研究の30年にわたる経験があります。 研究分野には、探査および環境地球化学の実地手法、地球化学図、多変量データマイニングがあります。 講義科目は、環境および探査地球化学、経済地質学で、地球化学分野の大勢の大学院研究生を指導しています。 2013年には、Australasian Institute for Mining and Metallurgyの客員講師としてニュージーランドに赴きました。 さまざまな大規模環境コンサルタントに関与した経験があり、オリンピック選手村の汚染物質評価や、ニューサウスウェールズ州とキプロスにおける探査および環境を目的とする地域的な地球化学図作成が挙げられます。 また、地質や地球化学に関する各種訴訟への専門的意見サービスなど、多数の企業や政府機関の技術顧問をしています。
Chris Magruder
Chris Magruder has worked at Evident for 19+ years providing phased and array and time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) training to customers of all levels. Chris is actively involved in phased array product and software development with a background specialty in new weld fabrication and in-service inspections.
Yuichiro Yamamoto
大学卒業後、原子力発電所にて放射線管理業務に従事し、2003年退社。同年R/D Tech社に入社し、超音波、超音波フェーズドアレイ、渦流、渦流アレイ製品を取り扱う技術部に所属。2007年よりオリンパスに入社しアプリケーション開発及び製品技術サポート・トレーニング業務に携わる。2013年より営業技術部、2018年より販売促進に所属し、従来業務と製品拡販を兼務。
Qian Jiang
Qian Jiang’s focus is on product sales and applications in the optical microscopy industry. Through her deep understanding of microscopy applications, she develops solutions for 5G electronic component and medical equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical production plants, and several other industries.
Terence Burke
Terence Burke began his career as a product applications specialist who traveled the world to train, support, and present eddy current products. He is currently a sales representative for Eastern Canada and keeps striving to increase his knowledge of ultrasonic and eddy current applications.
Vincent Lee
Vincent graduated from the University of Western Australia with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He started his career as an inorganic engineer, specializing in ICP-OES, ICP-MS, HDXRF, AAS, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. In 2015, Vincent joined Olympus to develop regional business and provide application support.
Dennis Chai
Dennis Chai has over 19 years of nondestructive testing (NDT) experience. This includes eight years working as an inspector in the oil and gas, construction, and maintenance industries using ultrasonic testing (UT), eddy current testing (ECT), and magnetic flux leakage (MFL) techniques and advanced methods such as phased array (PA) and time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD). For the last nine years, Dennis has been working on the development, deployment, and support of leading-edge NDT products and solutions in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Recently, he has been heavily involved in the design of novel inspection solutions for austenitic welds, full matrix capture (FMC)/total focusing method (TFM)/phase coherence imaging (PCI) applications, and corrosion inspections in components with complex geometry.
Prasanth Geddam
Prasanth joined as an NDT specialist in 2019 providing application development & support for customers in Asia Pacific region. He holds a Master’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and has been in the NDT industry for over 7 years. He comes with a proven track record of delivering high quality inspection, training & consultancy services - specializing in advanced UT & PAUT techniques. ASNT and PCN level 3 certified, he worked in wide range of projects across various industries, including Oil and Gas, Power Generation and Ship Building. At Olympus/Evident he works closely with industry experts in developing niche application solutions and implementation of latest techniques like TFM & PCI.
Stefano Croce
Stefano Croce joined Olympus in 2012 as NDT product manager. With a degree in Chemistry, he worked for a service company and becoming certified level 3 for some NDT method. Now, as sales specialist for NDT and RVI in Italy, he provides support and technical solution for advanced and challenging customers applications.
Wilbert Rooyakkers
Wilbert worked as an NDT engineer for almost 8 years in the industrial Gas and Steam Turbine business before joining Olympus. He joined Olympus in 2009 initially as an account manager for the RVI and NDT product lines in the East part of the Netherlands. After 10 years working as an account manager his responsibilities changed to a supporting role for the advanced NDT product lines. He now supports his Dutch colleagues and some colleagues in the West part of Germany for NDT related projects.
Michaël Barbeyrol
Michaël joined Olympus in 2020 as an NDT senior specialist after working more than 30 years as a mechanical engineer and NDT inspector in the aerospace manufacturing and maintenance sectors. He brings experience as an NDT lecturer and Level 3 in electromagnetic testing (ET), penetrant testing (PT), and ultrasonic testing (UT) methods to support Olympus sales specialists with new application development and custom solutions.
Louis-Philippe Gendron
Louis-Philippe graduated from a 2D/3D animation program in 2009, and then spent a decade applying his studies at a 3D scanning metrology company—5 years as an application engineer and 5 years as a marketing expert. He joined Olympus in 2019 to fill the role of Application Product Leader for the OmniScan™ product line.
Dong Rip Kim, PhD
Dong Rip Kim, PhD is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Hanyang University, South Korea, who has garnered many achievements in the field of functional surface research based on small-scale features. His surface engineering research work is an interdisciplinary study in the fields of heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, manufacturing, and materials science. His studies include the design and manufacturing of functional surfaces with properties of fine 3D structures and functional materials for desired interaction and interfacial phenomena. His research led to the development of practical products that were useful in real-life applications as well as important references for the academic field. His work is recognized by leading academia and industries, and he has published more than 82 peer-reviewed journal papers and has won numerous awards for his outstanding research papers.
Francisco Nuñez
Francisco Nuñez is a specialist in microscopy applications at Olympus Iberia. He is a graduate from the University of Barcelona in biology and has more than 14 years of professional experience providing scientific and technical solutions to the industrial, clinical, and university sectors, at both production and research levels. He joined the company in 2006 and has been Olympus Iberia’s expert in materials microscopy for over a decade.
Annegret Janovsky
Annegret Janovsky joined Evident in 2002. As a trained crystallographer, she specialized in technical mineralogy. During her time at Evident Germany, she broadened her experience in industrial microscopy, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and remote visual inspection (RVI) as a salesperson. After several years as a sales specialist for industrial microscopy, she moved to the marketing team in Europe, where she is now a product marketing manager for industrial microscopy in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Curtis Dickinson
Curtis re-joined the Evident team after several years of providing ultrasonics training and consulting for the inspection industry. Combined with his associate degree in applied science, nondestructive testing, he has over 12 years of experience in ultrasonics, phased array, and time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) applications.
Brandon Reitz
Brandon is an internationally experienced advanced ultrasonic specialist with over eight years of experience in the industries. Brandon holds an ASNT UT Level III certification.
Eero Laine
Eero joined Sintrol—an Evident distributor—in 2006 as a service engineer for industrial X-ray equipment. After taking phased array courses, Eero transitioned to the role of sales engineer in 2009, where he worked to provide customers with advanced ultrasonic equipment and solutions. He is passionate about finding solutions that enhance his customers’ productivity and quality control procedures.
Bruce Wang
Xiaoning (Bruce) Wang joined Evident in 2010 to oversee our support and application teams for NDT products and analytical instruments in China. He joined Evident with nearly 13 years’ NDT experience as well as a master’s degree in materials science and engineering from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Bruce is a committee member of the Chinese Society for Testing and Materials and a technical observer for China’s NDT National Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC56).
Colm Kinsella
Colm Kinsella graduated from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, with a Bachelor of Materials Engineering degree. From 2013 to 2022, Colm supported Evident customers with their nondestructive testing (NDT), remote visual inspection, and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) needs. Colm relocated from Melbourne to Perth in 2016 and is the current Western Australia Branch President of the Australian Institute of Nondestructive Testing (AINDT).
Sabri Baba
Sabri is an NDT expert with bachelor’s degrees in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Welding Engineering. He is certified Ultrasonic Level III per ISO 9712. He has more than 12 years of experience in various industries, including Oil & Gas, Aviation, Energy, and Manufacturing. This experience enables Sabri to provide support and solutions to the global NDT market. He joined Olympus in 2018 as Advanced NDT Manager, where his role is primarily to support customers with challenging applications by offering guidance on the proper methods, tools, and technology.
Gary Luckett
Gary started his NDT career with Olympus in 2008, developing into an NDT specialist covering Olympus advanced products such as the OmniScan™ flaw detector, Ms5800 tube inspection system, and PipeWIZARD™ inspection system. Gary left Olympus to develop more field experience, working with some of the most advanced NDT companies in the UK and becoming certified in a range of disciplines, including level 3 qualifications for ultrasonics and phased array. After returning to Olympus, Gary now supports our extensive range of distributors in the EMEA region.
Yoichiro Kasai
Yoichiro joined Olympus in 2001 and started his career as an engineer for the development of industrial videoscopes. Since 2011, he has been responsible for the marketing and sales strategy of nondestructive (NDT) products, including ultrasonic testing and eddy current testing equipment, in Japan.
Faizal Sahib
Faizal graduated from Manukau Institute of Technology with a diploma in electronics engineering. After working five years in the telecom field, he started at Olympus in 2004 as a service technician. He later joined the industrial sales team in 2008 as a sales specialist for remote visual inspection (RVI), nondestructive testing (NDT), and analytical instruments. His current role involves sales and support of Olympus industrial products in the Pacific Islands and New Zealand.
Richard Nowak
Richard has been with Olympus Australia for 15 years, starting in 2006 as a sales specialist to support NDT products. With a master’s degree in electronics engineering and career experience in a wide range of tech industries, he has extensive knowledge of NDT and Olympus products. He has a keen interest in building and sharing his knowledge and has presented extensively on many NDT topics, particularly corrosion scanning. For the last nine years he has been responsible for NDT application support, product support, training, and marketing for the Australia and New Zealand region.
Karl Federle
Karl is the Key Account Manager for Olympus’ aviation segment and drives our defense project in cooperation with the sales management team.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and joined Olympus 2017 as a Territory Manager. Owing to his previous role and experience in the military-aerospace market, Karl was appointed as Key Account Manager for this industry at the beginning of 2020
Raymond Chong
Evidentのデジタルイメージングおよび顕微鏡の製品スペシャリストとして、17年超の経験を持つ。現在はEvidentのシンガポール事業所(マレーシアのクアラルンプールを拠点)に勤務し、アジアパシフィック地域の子会社や販売代理店に対して工業顕微鏡システムの技術、アプリケーション、トレーニングのサポートを担っている。産業用イメージングソフトウェアおよび顕微鏡システム(デジタル、共焦点レーザー、清浄度検査システムなど)に関して、深い知識と経験を持つ。同地域における製品の導入・販売の成功を支えている。
François Laflamme
François Laflamme has over 13 years’ experience in nondestructive testing (NDT) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics. He joined Olympus in 2007 as an NDT specialist, developing conventional ultrasonic testing (UT) and phased array (PA) industrial inspection systems. Later, as the Project Manager for Olympus’ Rotating Tube Inspection Systems, François worked closely with major global pipe manufacturers. Now, as Systems Product Manager, he is involved in business and product development for a variety of automated pipe inspection systems.
Dr. Christopher Lane
Dr. Christopher Lane graduated from the University of Bristol with a first-class degree in mechanical engineering in 2007 and earned an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) from the same university in 2011. His EngD focused on the development of ultrasonic arrays for aerospace inspection.
Christopher has worked in the inspection industry for the last 12 years, first as the leader of the in-service nondestructive testing (NDT) team at Rolls-Royce, UK, and later as a team leader developing advanced inspection systems at ARTC, a research centre in Singapore.
Christopher joined Evident in 2018 as the sales manager for NDT systems and integration for the Asia Pacific region. In 2021, he set up and then managed the APAC Technology Centre in Singapore before joining Evident EMEA in 2022.
Christopher has also been awarded the British Institute of NDT Young Person's Achievement Award and the Rolls-Royce Award for Technical Innovation. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Certified Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute, and an Honorary Technical Editor of the Insight journal from the British Institute of Nondestructive Testing (BINDT).
Franco Pascua
Franco joined Olympus Singapore in 2018 to provide application support and training for customers in the Asia-Pacific region. He has a background in aeronautical engineering and has worked at both original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) companies in the aerospace sector. He has more than 18 years of experience inspecting airframes and powerplants using various NDT methods.
Joshua Low
Joshua joined Olympus Singapore in 2021 to provide sales and technical support. He has a background as a mechatronics engineer and began his NDT career with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) around 2004. He has also worked in the nuclear sector and other industries, providing NDT services, technical support, and sales.
倉田俊輔
オリンパス株式会社メカニカルエンジニアリング部門に所属。長年にわたって顕微鏡製品のメカニカルエンジニアリングに従事してきた。半導体・FPD検査装置の開発にも関わり、コンポーネント用顕微鏡ユニット開発を牽引して来たエンジニアである。
Dr. Daniel Richter Jr.
Dr. Daniel Richter is a professor of soil science and forest ecology at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Professor Richter’s research focuses on long-term studies of soil life to gain insights into how soil can be sustainably managed. His research approaches soil as a natural body that changes over time, rather than viewing it as inert and static. In particular, he’s interested in how humans impact and are impacted by the soil ecosystem around them over the long term. He is a specialist in urban soil lead toxicity, recently publishing a multidecade study of legacy lead in urban ecosystems.
Julia Kagiliery
Ms. Julia Kagiliery is double major in mechanical engineering and environmental science at Duke University and an undergraduate researcher in the Richter Lab. Ms. Kagiliery has been utilizing portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) for several years, including in studies of coal deposits, water quality, and now forest soil ecosystems.
Hiroshi Kato
James Parker
Deng Jian
Deng Jian works to solve customer applications using industrial microscopes. He specializes in many applications, including scientific research, archaeology, display and semiconductor manufacturing, and medical device manufacturing. He has a deep understanding of various optical microscopy techniques.
Sihan Tan
Sihan Tan graduated from the University of Manchester, UK, and is now working as an application engineer for analytical instruments at Evident. In her role, she focuses on application development and provides technical support for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers.
Bayard Morales
Bayard Morales is a product marketing manager at Evident specializing in remote visual inspection (RVI) technology. Bayard has 15 years of experience working with a wide range of industrial applications, including as a project engineer and product specialist in the fields of numerical simulation and industrial lubricants.
Xuming Yao
Xuming Yao has been engaged in the sales and marketing of Olympus industrial microscopes since 2005. He is responsible for the marketing and sales of microscopes in China’s motor vehicle industry, providing users with intelligent microscope solutions for automotive metal material and cleanliness inspections.
Archana Senthikkumar
Archana Senthikkumar is a product specialist in the Business Strategy and New Business Development Division at Evident. She works closely with engineering, sales, and marketing and assists with the launch of portable NDT products. She has extensive experience working in the US and overseas. Archana holds an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Avinashilingam University, India, and a graduate degree in biomedical engineering and biotechnology from UMass Lowell. She lives with her husband and two kids in Massachusetts.
Coleman Flanagan
Coleman Flanagan has more than 17 years of experience developing and supporting nondestructive testing instrumentation for Evident and its predecessor businesses. His main NDT background is in ultrasonics, where he guided the introduction of multiple new product initiatives, and he also has experience with phased array, eddy current, and bond testing technologies. Coleman has published multiple industry papers and delivered technical presentations around the world.
Narges Mirzabeigi, MSc
Narges Mirzabeigi joined the product management team at Evident’s Münster, Germany office in 2021. She is experienced in product management and development of quality assurance solutions for additive manufacturing, including software and hardware solutions for metrology and microscopy systems. She loves working in the area of Industry 4.0.
Sean Conley
Sean received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (BSIE) from Purdue University. He started at Olympus, now Evident, in 2015, specializing in NDT product applications with a focus in conventional flaw detection.
Steven LaBreck
Steve received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from Western New England University and a Master’s in Applied Business Management from Lesley University. He has been working in ultrasonics for 35 years, starting at Panametrics in 1987 through to today at Evident Industrial.
Trevor Targaglia
After four years with the Canadian Armed Forces, Trevor chose to study Engineering Physics at Laval University with a speciality in materials science. In February 2020, Trevor joined the R&D department of then Olympus Scientific Solutions’ industrial division, now Evident Industrial. After 2 years, he switched over to the product applications team and is now in the Product Applications Leader role for the OmniScan™ X3 series of flaw detectors.
Zachariah Issa
Zachariah Issa has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Iowa. He has worked at Evident for about three years, with previous experience in lean manufacturing and the power generation industry.
Kampoj Verma
Kampoj Verma is the Sales Leader for Industrial Microscope division of Evident (formerly Olympus) India since 2017. He has more than 13 years of microscopy sales experience and is now leading the charge of Industrial Microscope sales and distributor management in Pan India.
Trevor Tartaglia
After four years with the Canadian Armed Forces, Trevor chose to study Engineering Physics at Laval University with a speciality in materials science. In February 2020, Trevor joined the R&D department of then Olympus Scientific Solutions’ industrial division, now Evident Industrial. After 2 years, he switched over to the product applications team and is now in the Product Applications Leader role for the OmniScan™ X3 series of flaw detectors.
Angélique Raude
Angélique Raude has 17 years’ experience working in the nondestructive testing (NDT) field for a wide range of technologies and industries. She started as a project engineer in the electromagnetic field before moving to her role as a product specialist and manager.
Chi-Hang Kwan
Chi-Hang obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto. His doctorate research topic was on the separation of overlapped ultrasonic echoes. Since joining Evident in 2017, Chi-Hang has worked on numerous projects in signal processing, image processing, acoustic modeling, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Suzue Izumi
Suzue Izumi is a marketing specialist for metrology solutions at Evident. Since joining Evident in 2001, she has performed many demonstrations as a laser confocal microscope specialist. In addition to visiting laser confocal microscope users in Japan to provide technical support for system operations and data analysis, she provides application support globally.
Nick Eleftheriou
Nick Eleftheriou has more than 25 years of continuous experience in project management for numerous ventures worldwide. His qualifications include ASME Plant Inspector, ISO 9712 Level III MT, PT, UT, PAUT Level II, and Technical Assessor. Through his studies, he has also achieved a Trade Certificate IV in Engineering, a diploma in business management, and a science degree in nondestructive testing.
Nick is the national president of the Australian Institute for Nondestructive Testing (AINDT) following five years as a director. He previously served as a volunteer for the South Australian Branch as a councilor through to a past branch president. During his tenure, he has frequently represented AINDT at national and international events, where he has submitted technical presentations and case studies to the industry.
Having joined Evident as the technical sales specialist for South Australia and the Northern Territory, Nick combines his expertise with a genuine passion for industry and technology. He now works as the NDT product manager for Australia and New Zealand.
Nick is also a parent, carer, volunteer, and ongoing life student, and he strives to be a high achiever in all aspects of his personal and professional life.
Alain Le Duff
Alain Le Duff received a PhD in Acoustics from the Université du Mans, France in 2003. He was a professor from 1989 to 2018 at the Polytechnic University of Franceville, Gabon and then at the ESEO, Angers, France, where was the head of the Electronics & Control Engineering Department in 2015. In 2000, he became a Research Fellow at the Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Maine, France. In 2018, he joined Olympus, now Evident, as a scientist to assist our nondestructive testing (NDT) research and development (R&D). His research interests are related to signal and image processing, acoustics, and electronics. He has also contributed to several R&D programs with French and Canadian labs and companies working in the fields of biomedical and NDT industries.
Guillaume Painchaud-April
Guillaume Painchaud-April received his PhD in 2013 from the department of Physics and Physics Engineering at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada for his thesis on the use of the scattering matrix in the analysis of optical dielectric resonators. In 2012, he joined Olympus as an industrial physicist, and his current role at Evident is data scientist. His work relates to the physical modeling of wave phenomena in acoustic and electromagnetic inspection systems, on their deployment, and on the use of statistical methods and machine learning methods to improve the reliability of NDE in commercial systems.
Carlos Enrique Suárez Navas
Kanako Shiozaki
Kanako Shiozaki is a specialist in marketing communications at Evident. She works closely with our product planning teams and engineers to grow the business. She joined the Evident Industrial team in 2012 with a sales and marketing background in the electronic components industry. She has held various positions supporting industrial microscopes and videoscopes.
Heiko Küchler
Heiko joined Olympus Germany 2007 as territory sales manager for all product lines of Olympus. He worked since 2019 as sales specialist NDT. He starts 1995 as sales consultant with Panametrics.
山之内一彦
24年間にわたってオリンパス株式会社で光学系設計を担当。現在は株式会社エビデント光学開発部門に所属し、高精度対物レンズの光学設計開発に取り組む。日本の東京理科大学で工学修士号を取得。
Zhitao Li
Zhitao Li is an application engineer at Evident. With more than 10 years’ experience in industrial microscopy, he has broad knowledge of industrial microscopes from precision measurement to microscopic analysis. He is also familiar with the application of microscopes in many industrial fields.
Nicolas Badeau
Nicolas Badeau obtained his bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Université Laval, Quebec, Canada in 2014. That same year, he was hired by Olympus as a scientist and worked for six years in that role, concentrating mainly on phased array ultrasound (PAUT) technology development. Products he helped bring to fruition include the OmniScan™ X3 phased array and total focusing method (TFM) flaw detector, the FlexoFORM™ scanner, and the phase coherence imaging (PCI) algorithm for the PCI feature on the OmniScan X3 64 flaw detector. Nicolas completed his master’s degree in Robotics at Université Laval in 2020, and since then has worked on the development of automated robotic inspection systems at Evident.
Jeff Morales
Whether following moose families through the Alaskan bush, chronicling rancher’s battling insect armies in Texas, or revealing the secrets of the giant hornet in Japan, Jeff Morales brings a creative and playful style to natural history films.
Jeff is also passionate about teaching researchers and students how to tell their own compelling science and natural history stories and conducts university seminars and workshops across North America. A former street musician, Jeff has busked the squares and alleyways of Paris, Rome, Key West, Los Angeles, and Kathmandu. His kids are not impressed by his fashion sense.
Jiyoung Moon
Jiyoung Moon joined Evident specializing in industrial microscopes such as laser confocal and digital microscopes. She continued to broaden her experience in industrial microscopy as a sales specialist and demonstrator. Jiyoung later transferred to the marketing communications team, where she applies her expertise in industrial microscopy to strengthen communication with customers.
Walid Laouar
Walid Laouar is a sales manager for analytical instruments at Evident. He currently specializes in sales and marketing for XRF analyzers in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC). Prior to Evident, he worked as a sales engineer in chemicals, focusing on the aerospace and oil and gas industries. Walid holds a master’s degree from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France.
Dirk Bachman
Dirk Bachmann has been with Evident for more than 15 years and has extensive experience with various application developments in the digital microscopy field. He is the application specialist for our PRECiV™ measurement and imaging platform and OLYMPUS Stream™ image analysis software in the product group for materials science and industrial equipment at the Evident Technology Center Europe (ETCE) in Germany.
François-Côme Beaupré
François-Côme is the General Manager for NDT in Asia-Pacific. He oversees the NDT products, including customized solutions, integrations, and systems, for the APAC region.
With over 22 years of experience in NDT, he relocated to Singapore in 2015 to support the APAC NDT business. He was previously based in Québec, Canada, initially as part of the systems integration team to bring phased array technology into online inspection systems. He then moved to the advanced portable product lines, developing applications solutions in the aerospace and oil and gas industries. From 2010 to 2015, he was Product Manager of the OmniScan PA-UT family.
Dr. Sergej Bock
Dr. Sergej Bock is a global solution manager at Evident specializing in light microscope acquisition and analysis software. He holds a PhD in physics and has worked in the field of light-matter interaction for many years. With technical knowledge and experience in light and optics, light microscopes, and imaging software, Sergej works closely with life science and material scientists and engineers in industry and academia. He actively supports customers from all disciplines in the implementation of customer-specific software customization.
Bülent Peker
With over 15 years of experience at Evident, Bülent Peker is a skilled specialist in laser scanning microscopy. His interest in microscopy and photonics began during his doctoral studies in physical chemistry, where he conducted research on time-resolved two-photon microscopy, and his passion for this field has persisted ever since. Bülent has been instrumental in introducing our leading-edge laser scanning microscopes to the market and is particularly intrigued by the potential applications of multiphoton systems as well as the customization options for laser scanning systems.
François-Côme Beaupré
François-Côme is the General Manager for NDT in Asia-Pacific. He oversees the NDT products, including customized solutions, integrations, and systems, for the APAC region.
With over 22 years of experience in NDT, he relocated to Singapore in 2015 to support the APAC NDT business. He was previously based in Québec, Canada, initially as part of the systems & integration team to bring Phased Array technology into online inspection systems. He then moved to the advanced portable product lines developing applications solutions namely in aerospace and oil and gas industries. From 2010 to 2015, he was Product Manager of the OmniScan PA-UT family.
Lee Hunter Jr.
Lee has over 27 years of hands-on experience, dedicating his career to handling, decontamination, and treatment of hazardous materials, drawing from his extensive military background.
With his well versed knowledge, Lee developed the proprietary desorption and decontamination chemical, MerCure - currently the only third-party verified and peer reviewed solution proven to remove mercury from carbon and alloy infrastructures. Lee then founded Total Hazardous and Integrated Solutions(THIS) which focuses on the decontamination of mercury and other hazardous materials from industrial processes, transportation and storage facilities.
Lee has written numerous papers, articles, presentations and he also participates in a few committees including the UNEP-GMP (UNEP Global Mercury Partnership and the Contaminant Advisory Group (CAG) for knowledge sharing and educational purposes.
Aiko Wakamori
When joining Evident in 2015, Aiko started as a sales support staff member to coordinate delivery dates. After that, she moved into the Sales department and worked in industrial microscopy sales for three years. In 2023, Aiko transferred into the Marketing department, where she was involved in the planning of the new laser scanning microscope.
Alexandre Gregoire
Serguei Solokhine
Though his official title is Director of Marketing and Communication, Serguei wears many hats at Skygauge Robotics. In addition to heading Skygauge’s marketing team, he conducts grant procurement for the company and fills a general management role for a number of other processes. He joined Skygauge in January 2023 with a background in finance, sales, and marketing.
Ryan Sterling
Evidentの工業用内視鏡検査機器のプロダクトマネージャーを務めるRyanは、主に当社のRVI製品ラインの絶え間ない進化に注力し、現在の産業検査需要に合ったインテリジェントソリューションのを提供に従事しています。2020年にテキサス大学タイラー校の修士号を取得した彼は、プラントメンテナンス(回転機器)、石油・ガス操業、測定から、石油・ガスソフトウェアアプリケーションの製品管理まで、幅広く精通しています。
Tasha Joy
Tasha Joy is a product and applications engineer at Evident, where she contributes to our line of industrial microscopy systems. She works closely with customers, assisting them by improving their equipment knowledge and performance for industrial applications. Prior to joining Evident, she conducted various research projects in tribological studies and helped develop polymer films for flexible displays. Tasha holds a master's degree in materials science and engineering.
Benoit Cabirol
Benoitは、2004年より非破壊検分野でPanametrics社およびR/D Tech社に対する営業技術サポートや渦流探傷製品マネージャーを務め、幅広い経験を積んできました。当社の非破壊検査チームに加わる前は8年間、航空機整備に従事していました。彼の仕事ぶりはEvident Franceでよく知られています。2018年より、当社の非破壊検査スペシャリストとしてフランスおよびEMEA地域で営業支援にあたり、2023年からはOmniScan™製品群の製品アプリケーションリーダーとして、フェイズドアレイソリューションの開発をサポートしています。
Seunghak Lee
Based in Korea, Seunghak Lee joined Evident’s industrial microscope technical sales team in 2017. As a sales specialist for industrial microscopes, he is responsible for our industrial laser confocal microscopes and provides customized solutions to customers using data such as surface roughness analysis. Seunghak has vast experience in the electronics and academic research industries with expertise in 3D measurement and data analysis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering.
Ryojiro Doi
Ryojiro Doi is a marketing specialist at Evident. He has more than 10 years of experience in sales of remote visual inspection and handheld XRF analyzer equipment. Ryojiro played an important role in starting up the inside sales team in Japan, and he is currently involved in various promotional activities in areas of remote visual inspection and nondestructive elemental analysis.
Yuta Tanaka
Evidentで中国・アジア地域の顧客サポートを担当する工業用内視鏡検査スペシャリスト。現在の役職の前は、石油化学・発電分野の顧客をサポートする営業担当者を務めた。
Britta Frenzel
Britta Frenzel has a strong commercial and technical background with a master's in biomedical engineering from Clemson University and several years of experience in the medical device industry. From 2022–2024, Britta supported Evident’s line of benchtop fluorescence microscopes, fixed stage microscopes, and macro zoom fluorescence microscopes on the product management team, where she worked to identify the needs of researchers and provide imaging solutions that match the growing needs of the imaging community.
友吉 圭
1992年にEvident入社後、大型科学システムに組み込むOEM顕微鏡コンポーネント・部品の製品開発エンジニアとして10年超にわたる経験を持つ。2003年からはマーケティングスペシャリストとしてOEM事業に引き続き携わり、モジュール式の小型顕微鏡、コンポーネント、部品を幅広くサポートしている。
Tim Nelson
Tim Nelson is a specialist in the Product Management and Marketing group at Evident, where he works closely with engineers, customers, and sales to guide the launch of new portable NDT ultrasonic, eddy current, and bond testing solutions. Prior to Evident, Tim began his career as an engineer in the nuclear industry focusing on plant system upgrades and aging infrastructure management using nondestructive testing. He also brings broad experience from the construction industry, where he specialized in fire safety and anchor failures/design in skyscrapers and infrastructure, before moving into an engineering sales role supplying engineered parts to manufacturers of electric vehicles and electronics. Tim holds a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Dr. Jean-Louis Lavergne
Jean-Louis Lavergne博士はアプリケーションスペシャリストとして2004年にEvidentに入社し、2009年にプロダクトマネージメントチームに異動しました。マテリアルサイエンスを専門とするグローバルプロダクトマネージャーとして、CIX100清浄度検査システムと、画像および測定ソフトウェアPRECiV™の製品開発を担当しています。博士が専門とする分野には、マテリアルサイエンスで活用する画像解析、および粒度測定などさまざまな物理的特性化の技法が含まれます。
Mark Russ
Mark Russ joined Evident in 2005, starting in the manufacturing department, focusing on our rigid scope solutions. Since then, he has held various roles, including positions in our RVI Service department, as an RVI Support Engineer, as the EMEA RVI Application Specialist, in UK sales across all technologies, and as an Aviation Specialist for our EMEA marketing team. For the past four years, he has been supporting our North Region distributors as an RVI Specialist.
A married father of two, Mark enjoys restoring and riding classic motorcycles, scuba diving, paramotoring, and traveling.