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 subsidiary company, IMCORP Europe, BVBA, is located in Lochristi (Gent), Belgium with Frank Verschraegen as the resident Technical Business Director.

Profiles

Matthew Mashikian

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 Conductor Committee of IEEE/PES, and a past member of CIGRE WG 15-6.  He holds a dozen patents and has published extensively on cable and electric vehicles.

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.