BOB THOMAS
(Author)Bob Thomas was raised and educated in Southern California, graduating from UCLA. He was an aerospace engineer for seven years prior to opting for sales-engineering, selling high-tech products to the aerospace industry. He soon became California Regional Manager. In 1964, he co-founded UNI-LOC, a high-tech company that designs and manufactures analytical instrumentation for the oil, gas, chemical, petrochemical and food industries. Over the next eight years, as President and CEO, he led the company well into world-class status. Today, UNI-LOC is known as Rosemount Analytical, a division of Emerson, a Fortune 500 company. Following UNI-LOC, Thomas and his partner, Ted Barben, founded Thomas-Barben Instruments (TBI) in 1977, in Nevada. Today, TBI is a thriving division of ABB, the Swiss conglomerate. He is now a director of Universal Analyzers and Barben Analyzer Technology, two young Nevada high-tech companies that are on the threshold of becoming world-class. Bob and his wife Ingrid live in Carson City, Nevada’s Capital city. rob@rhthomas.net
