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Executive Staff

As industry experts, the founders were motivated by the desire to create new, more innovative and efficient analyzers and software, thereby giving our customers better performance, better value and a better experience.

Hal Grodzins

Chairman & CEO

Ken Walker

Chief Financial Officer

Abhinandan Sheshadri

Chief Technology Officer

April Montera

Sales Director

Mohnish Charan

Customer Engineering Manager

Deepak Doomra

Head, SABIA India, Turkey, & MENA Region

Hal Grodzins

Chairman & CEO

Hal Grodzins is the owner, Chairman and CEO of Aratay Inc. dba Sabia.  Prior to acquiring Sabia in May, 2023, Mr. Grodzins was President and Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Sabia, Incorporated, a global leader in the manufacturing and marketing of Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA) technology.  A longtime instrumentation business executive, Mr. Grodzins has decades of experience in all aspects of running instrumentation businesses, including executive management; financial management; mergers and acquisitions; strategic planning; technology development; global business development; and intellectual property, regulatory, operations and sales management.

Prior to joining Sabia in 2020, Mr. Grodzins was Cofounder, Chairman, President and CEO of Viken Detection Corporation, a pioneer in x-ray imaging devices for homeland security and analytical instruments for environmental testing.  Previously Hal was President and CEO of the tech start-up Vibrant Technologies; former Executive Consultant to the CEO of the Rigaku Group of Companies and founder of the Rigaku subsidiary, Rigaku Analytical Devices, Inc.; the former Vice President of Research and Development of the instrumentation division of Thermo Fisher Scientific; the former Vice President and General Manager of Thermo Scientific Niton Analyzers; the former Chairman, President and CEO of Niton Corporation, the company that invented handheld x-ray instrumentation; and the former Managing Director of Niton Europe GmbH and Niton Asia Ltd.  Prior to joining the instrumentation industry in 1996, Mr. Grodzins worked as a bond trader and broker at a boutique Wall Street firm, Stoever Glass & Co, and founded and ran a successful radon testing laboratory.

Mr. Grodzins is a Director of the Cornerstones of Science Foundation; the former Chairman of the Fulcrum Foundation; and a former director of several other private companies and non-profit organizations.  He is the inventor and co–inventor of patents in x-ray fluorescence and optical emission spectroscopy; winner of the 2003 R&D 100 Award as principal designer of Niton’s XLt Series XRF analyzers; and winner of national awards for sales achievement and product presentation.  Mr. Grodzins resides with his wife, Cathy, in Maitland, Florida and Arlington, Massachusetts, USA.

Ken Walker

Chief Financial Officer

Ken has over 30 years of experience as an accounting professional. He is a CPA and has worked as Controller for a large multi-state contractor specializing in home flooring sales and installation, as CFO of a multi-state general contractor and as Controller for a large public company. He is married with two grown children who live in the San Francisco area. His leisure time (when available) is mainly spent on a golf course.

Abhinandan Sheshadri

Chief Technology Officer

Abhi has always been a problem solver by nature. He received his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from PES college of Engineering in India and his Master’s in Computer Science from San Diego State University. Previously, Abhi owned a software services company in San Diego and Los Angeles, CA for over 2 years. He has over 9 years of rich industry experience working with various software and networking companies including Qualcomm, Nvinium games and Huawei India Pvt ltd. In his spare time, Abhi loves to play badminton, watch movies and landscape-paint.

April Montera

Sales Director

April is globally experienced in market development and sales for process optimization in minerals, cement, coal, and fertilizer segments in mining. Her specialties are in strategic account management, sales process management and client relationship building. She has extensive experience with PGNAA product application in the mining industry since the early 1990’s. April is a San Diego native and graduate of San Diego State University. She enjoys spending her leisure time with family, cooking, writing, and deep-sea fishing.

Mohnish Charan

Customer Engineering Manager

Mohnish received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta with honors. He has extensive knowledge of all technical aspects of PGNA analyzers. Mohnish and his team manage all aspects of technical customer support and management of SABIA analyzers. In his free time Mohnish enjoys photography, exploring different countries, cultures and reading.

Deepak Doomra

Head, SABIA India, Turkey, & MENA Region

Deepak joined SABIA in April 2013 and helped start SABIA’s first venture outside of USA by establishing SBMAPL (SABIA Bulk Material Analyzer Private Limited) in New Delhi, servicing India, the Middle East and North Africa. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronics Engineering, and has extensive experience selling capital equipment in cement, steel, coal and mineral beneficiation since 1997.