Brad Brown of ATL Technology
January 5, 2021
With a manufacturing facility in China, Utah-based ATL Technology was forced to deal with COVID months before the pandemic hit the United States. In this episode BioUtah’s president & CEO Kelvyn Cullimore interviews Brad Brown, CEO of ATL Technology and discusses how their dealings with the pandemic in China helped them prepare for and deal with COVID-19’s impact on a life sciences company.
Other topics discussed include:
- Long-term impacts of U.S. tariffs
- Pivoting for COVID
- Product development
- Much more
Brad Brown Bio:
Started out as a tool maker in Detroit in the 80's, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree in 1991 from BYU in Provo, UT. Started engineering career working for System Connection. In 1993, founded ATL with Dan Ellertson as 50/50 partners. ATL Technology started out doing work in the mobile computing industry with PCMCIA which grew into the development of connector systems and docking stations for PDA's, and then moved into connectors for cell phones. ATL customers included: HP, 3Com, Motorola, Nokia, Handspring and Palm. Because of excellent quality systems and processes, ATL was asked in 2001, to begin producing components and connector systems for the medical industry.