Salt Lake City, UT, – e-SENS Corporation, based in Research Park in Salt Lake City, UT, today announced initial investments have been secured, and a new office and lab are now open and operating, as the company prepares its first product for the market, expecting to ship samples within a year.

That product will be a potable water profiling system, using electrochemical sensors based on patented, and microfabricated, semiconductor “lab-on-a-chip” technology, that simultaneously tests for up to 18 disinfectant and infrastructure critical analytes and parameters in water, in under five minutes. These analytes and parameters of water are critical to the management of potable water quality and safety.

The patents for the sensor technology are licensed to e-SENS from the University of Michigan for exclusive worldwide use. Technology development by the founders has been ongoing for over 30 years, and initial hires have been made while the company actively seeks additional investors and staff members.

According to Michael McCorquodale, President, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of e-SENS, “Water quality is critical in so many different fields: municipal, industrial, medical and environmental. Potable water quality is also a critical health concern. Our silicon-based system leverages over three decades of research and will be a major advance in giving users a complete, comprehensive and nearly instant picture of the quality of the water we depend on and take for granted. This change mirrors the many ways that silicon technology is transforming the world now, from communications and photography, to music and reading.”

Said Uwe Michalak of ASPON Consulting, a product management and marketing consultancy firm in Fort Collins, CO, “With a rapidly aging water supply infrastructure and an increased demand on municipalities and industrial and commercial water users to provide more and better results at a lower cost, the introduction of an integrated water quality testing solution is not only timely, but essential to achieve such goals. The same industries are further challenged with the implementation of new regulations like EPA’s Disinfection By-Products Rule.”

Key Officers:

Richard Brown, CEO and Co-Founder, is Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah, and M.S.E.E. and B.S.E.E. from Brigham Young University in Utah. He has been involved in founding i-SENS, Sensicore and Mobius Microsystems.

Michael McCorquodale, President, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, previously founded Mobius Microsystems, a company built on his groundbreaking development of CMOS oscillators (acquired by IDT in 2010). In 2012, he was recognized as Innovator of the Year at the 2012 UBM ACE Awards, and his silicon clocking technology earned three “Product of the Year” Awards in 2012 from trade periodicals. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and a B.S.E.E. degree with Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Geun Sig Cha, Co-Founder, is the CEO and Co-Founder of i-SENS, a company focused on blood glucose sensing products, and a Professor of Chemistry at Kwangwoon University (Seoul, Korea). He holds a B.S. degree from Korea University, and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Michigan. He spent several years at the University of Michigan as a joint research fellow in the Departments of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Hakhyun Nam, Co-Founder, is the CTO and Co-Founder of i-SENS, a company focused on blood glucose sensing products, as well as a Professor of Chemistry at Kwangwoon University (Seoul, Korea). He holds a B.S. degree from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Michigan State University. His postdoctoral work was in laser spectroscopy at the University of California at Berkeley.

Thomas Thatcher, Vice President of Sales and Business Development and Co-Founder, has been in the Chemical Industry for nearly 28 years and was formerly the Executive Vice President of Thatcher Chemical Company, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. He also served as the President of Thatcher Pharmaceutical, a Division of Thatcher Chemical Company, for eight years and grew sales by 12-fold. He holds an M.B.A. from Brigham Young University, and a B.A. from the University of Utah.

About e-SENS:

e-SENS is based in Research Park in Salt Lake City, UT. Initial investments have already been secured, and an office and lab are now open and operating. Initial hires have been made, and the company is actively seeking additional investors and staff members.