Vetronix Company Profile

Creative Campus Environment

Headquartered at the campus of the former Santa Barbara University in California, Vetronix Corporation, founded in 1984, now employs in excess of 260 people.

This intellectual environment at the center of Vetronix's worldwide operations stimulates the spirit of creativity and enterprise driving the technical excellence embodied in the Company's collaborative OEM engineering programs, diagnostic products and next generation telematics solutions.

International Reach

Regional offices are maintained in Detroit, Michigan, Tokyo, Japan, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Vetronix is also represented in Paris, France and maintains product service centers in Ontario, Canada and Dietzenbach, Germany.

Vetronix Team

The Vetronix Management Team, chaired by its founder, Jim Zaleski has a matrix structure and is drawn from a broad cross-section of technical, commercial, financial, marketing and sales expertise, at an international level within the automotive, electronics and computer industries.

The Company is privately held and has recently announced a strategic alliance with IBM as the first step toward creating a common approach for the commercial telematics market.

Focus on Innovation

The Company's focus is on technological innovation in the field of software development, vehicle electronics and telematics. Vetronix is recognized to be at the forefront of the vehicle diagnostics field and leverages this technical and commercial advantage to break new ground in associated technologies. An example of this was the development of the Passport standard by the Enterprise Alliance, in which Vetronix played a significant part. This industry-wide standard allows computer-based products and services to communicate with each other in all types of automotive service environments, increasing productivity and enhancing customer service. Building on this approach, Vetronix has now developed a next-generation telematics solution incorporating comprehensive remote diagnostic capabilities.

Converging Technologies and Skills

The campus environment at the Company's worldwide headquarters provides an ideal background for synergistic creativity, a necessary element for developing converging technologies and skills from diverse disciplines.

Vetronix has recently added key personnel to significantly strengthen capabilities in world class marketing and business development together with its position in the global automotive OEM market.

Patents

Building on this creative environment Vetronix is characterized by its ability to translate ideas into patented innovative tangible technologies embodied in its robust software, value added services and a product range manufactured to the highest standards of quality, reliability and value.

OEM Engineering Programs

Since 1984 Vetronix has enjoyed close co-operative development programs with many leading players in the OEM community.

The relationship between the OEM customer and Vetronix's highly experienced engineering and design teams has produced many successful engineering programs. This is evident in the development of critical service equipment for franchised dealer networks.

42% global market share

Vetronix maintains a dominant market share in the OEM/diagnostic equipment market, with over:

100,000 OEM branded diagnostic testers
500,000 software programs
Distribution in 45 countries
Translations in 27 different languages

Merging Diagnostics and Telematics

Vetronix is now focused on the development of a total vehicle support system by merging two distinct, but related, sectors: diagnostics and telematics.

With unparalleled experience in vehicle diagnostics, data acquisition, wireless connectivity and internet technologies for mobile platforms, Vetronix is set to become a technology leader in the emerging telematics arena. As Vetronix merges diagnostics and telematics, it is pioneering new paradigms in mobile asset management and driver productivity embodied in a total vehicle support system.