Case Engelen
President

Prior to founding Titoma Case served as the Managing Director of WeLL Design Taiwan, which he built into Taiwan's most successful foreign Industrial Design firm. Under Case's management, WeLL Taiwan designed and engineered high-tech products for corporations such as Polaroid, Microtek, NEC, LG, Princeton Graphics and Acer. His team was acknowledged by Business Week Magazine and won numerous design awards and more importantly, the 1999 "Best of Comdex", for an innovative PC tablet [the Qbe case study]. Case has an Ms in Business from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and is fluent in English, Chinese, French and Dutch.

Bruce McNeil, MSEE, MBA
Director of Electronic Development

With a BA in Mandarin, an MSEE and an MBA degree Bruce is more then qualified for the job. 20 years of experience with Motorola, specializing in hardware and embedded software design of a wide range of wireless products, from PCMCIA modems to wireless infrastructure projects. Posted in Beijing for 5 years he headed up a team of 35 engineers, developing GSM handsets that sold millions. Fluent in Mandarin Bruce stays in touch with all the Chinese RF components, chipsets and RF modules manufacturers to make sure his designs have the lowest BOM cost in the market.

Wei Kong
Director of Industrial Design 

British qualified designer and project manager with twelve years international consultancy experience, six of which were in Taiwan, Wei has designed and developed consumer to professional products for western and Chinese clients including Motorola, Hitachi, Acer, Unitech, Optoma and Axus Microsystems. As project manager, Wei mediated between international development partners, handling projects directly for clients, or as with Sunbeam Products, supporting a clients existing design consultants and suppliers to ensure successful design execution.

Patrick McGrath
Director of Mechanical Design

Patrick brings to the table more then 25 years of experience in mechanical design and tooling. He worked more then 14 years as a tool engineer in Silicon Valley and at Ford, and went on to design packaging machinery. He then came over to Taiwan to head up a the opto-mechanical design department for a digital camera maker, registering several patents in lens technology. In the last 3 years Patrick has built tools in Taiwan for a large number of US clients, specializing in high precision, automotive and co-molding. Very much a hands-on designer he has clocked 10,000 hours on ProE. Patrick studied Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is fluent in Chinese.

Mark Cartwright
Director of Tooling

Qualified in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University, England, Marks background is the European automotive design industry. He has been involved in projects ranging from conceptual vehicle design through development and launch of a new vehicle to value engineering and being part of the launch team of a world-class supercar. He has worked on projects for companies such as BP, Lotus Cars, Aston Martin, MG-Rover and TNO Automotive. He is well used to handling challenging, innovative projects with multidisciplinary teams.

David Gardner, Ph.D.
Director of Human Factors Research

Dr. David Gardner has co-authored more than 100 scientific publications on human factors, psychology and education, including more than 40 books. He is a board certified licensed psychologist, and Professor Emeritus at Boston University. Besides his scholastic pursuits David also has wide experience, holding leadership positions ranging from software firms to Fortune 100 steel companies. In recent years he has consulted for US companies importing from China, and published his hands-on knowledge in the E-book "How to import from China".

Walter Burt
Head of Operations, Shanghai

Walter first began doing business in China in 1990. Walter comes with more than twelve years of Asian industrial component sourcing and quality control experience. He is an American and speaks Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and has a fair command of three other Chinese dialects. Heading our operations in Shanghai, Walter’s China team has experience in core manufacturing processes such as plastic injection, rubber compression molding, metal stampings, die-casting, sand casting, and lost wax casting. He handles several of our labor intensive, high volume projects.

Axel Schmidtchen, Diplom Engineer
Head of Operations, Zhuhai

Axel has been working in the Shenzhen / Dzuhai area of China for 7 years, concentrating on the manufacturing and development of electronic devices, particularly in the database, security, RF and LCD areas. Small to medium sized lots are manufactured and fully tested in-house, larger quantities are contracted out to long-term manufacturing partners. Axel is a Diplom Engineer in (RF) Electronic Engineering from Dresden and is fluent in German, English and Chinese.

Bernard Bowiz, Diplom Engineer
Consultant for Wireless Electronics

German graduated Diplom Engineer, RF-technology & General Electronics. In Asia since 1979 with a broad range of experience from setting up complete manufacturing facilities to new product design. He has a lot of expertise in developing wireless applications, software and hardware. He wrote the first packet code for wireless data transmission in 1982, designed the Terminal Server concept, wrote the first Chinese version of AMPS/ETACS cellular telephone software, and was the driving force behind the Inmarsat M Briefcase terminal. Further developed portable data terminals and has expertise in legal and compliance of financial networks. Bernard speaks English, German and Chinese.