Quest TruTec has organized a dedicated management team possessing valuable skill sets including business management, finance, operations, engineering support, sales and marketing. The management team has the capability to build a globally distributed service network with five regional offices and related satellites. Key team members presently include:
Milton Altenberg – Chairman and CEO
Mr. Altenberg is CEO of Quest Integrity Group, the holding company for Quest TruTec and Quest Reliability. He is a specialist in managing rapid growth companies, with over 25 years of progressive leadership experience in technology, manufacturing, and sales-intensive environments. Throughout his career, Mr. Altenberg has successfully utilized entrepreneurial instinct and market discipline, and cultivated management teams to deliver sustainable value to customers and shareholders. Mr. Altenberg has served as the President and/or CEO of over 15 companies in a highly diverse group of industries including: energy services, petrochemical and chemical processing, plastics processing, construction products, machining services, automotive manufacturing, software, and management consulting. His experience includes business start-ups as well as mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Altenberg is best known for his technology-driven approach to redefining strategies, business models and markets.
Jeffrey Ott – President
Mr. Ott is President of Quest Integrity Group, the holding company for Quest TruTec and Quest Reliability. He has been involved with high growth, industrial technology companies for the past 20 years as an investor, director, advisor, and financier. Mr. Ott's industry coverage focus has included energy, automotive performance, software, process controls and NDT/E instrumentation. As a general partner at Gryphon Investors, he was responsible for managing the group's middle market-focused technology investment interests. Mr. Ott previously managed the west coast private equity effort and technology investments as a general partner at Deutsche Bank Capital Partners and prior to that, led the global convertible and equity-linked capital markets effort for Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank. Mr. Ott began his career as an engineer in the Operations Analysis group at Rockwell International's North American Aircraft. Mr. Ott holds a B.S. in Engineering and Operations Research from Southern Methodist University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Richard Roberts – Vice President & General Manager
Mr. Roberts began his career in the oilfields of Alaska at Arco Petroleum in 1985, where he was involved in a massive corrosion monitoring and prevention program encompassing critical assets such as pipelines, pressure vessels, tanks and well heads. After departing Alaska in 1992, Mr. Roberts was involved with implementing specialized non-destructive examination (NDE) division start-ups for various engineering and service companies within North America, such as ABB/Amdata, Combustion Engineering and CTI/Tuboscope. In 1996, Mr. Roberts was recruited by Quest Integrated Inc (QI2) to set up and establish a Field Services Division (FSD) which applied QI2’s proprietary NDE instrumentation, LOTIS® and later FTIS™ and InVista™ technologies. When QI2’s FSD and TruTec Services merged in 2004, Mr. Roberts assumed the role, Director of Condition Assessment Division. Today as Vice President and General Manager of Quest TruTec, Mr. Roberts heads up both operations and engineering activities. His 20 year long employeement history working with advanced automated NDT/E technologies, coupled with his extensive management experience, provides an optimal foundation from which to lead the next phase in Quest TruTec’s commercial development. He received his A.S. in NDE from the University of Alaska and his B.S. in Welding Technology from Ohio State University.