Day 1: Our People Who Put Your People First

10 December 2015
Towcester Abaco Systems

Monday, December 7, was Day 1 for us here at Abaco Systems and we couldn’t have been more excited. Bernie Anger, our CEO, flew into the UK to talk to the team in Towcester (pictured above), and our worldwide team—from Bangalore, India to Goleta, California; from Edinburgh, Scotland to Huntsville, Alabama; and from Towcester and Milton Keynes in England to Billerica, Massachusetts—celebrated our first day each in their own way. 

Foundation Technology

At Foundation Technology in Milton Keynes, England, the Abaco Systems team are proudly wearing their brand-new T-shirts.

Huntsville Mayor

At our Huntsville HQ, we were honored to have Mayor Tommy Battles join us for our day one celebration.

Bangalore

Abaco Systems day one at our office in Bangalore, India.

Billerica

Our HPEC Center of Excellence is in Billerica—and here's the team, raring to go.

HPEC Center of Excellence

Our Networking Center of Excellence in Edinburgh are—mostly—all smiles on day one.

Goleta

The avionics team in Goleta celebrated day one with a taco lunch.

Why are we excited? Well, first, it’s exhilarating to be in at the start of something brand new. Second, we have a highly talented team that is chomping at the bit to take an already successful company and build it into something even greater. All Abaco employees from senior leadership on down are committed to the success of our customers and we know that this will lead to a successful Abaco Systems. We have empowered our employees, giving them the freedom to do what they believe is right for our customers and we all know that we will be held accountable, expected to take responsibility for ensuring that we meet our commitments. It’s what we used to call “say-do” at GE.

We truly are building our entire company around the success of our customers.

Continuity

It’s a well-worn cliché in business that companies don’t deal with companies—people deal with people. The good news is that all our people—the people that have developed relationships with customers over years, and even decades—have come with us. This is important in an industry such as ours where strong customer partnerships are critical to the success of long-running, multi-year programs.

Even better, though: our people are re-energized and re-invigorated by the opportunity we all see ahead of us. We think we can be a very different kind of rugged embedded computing company—and that the difference we’ll be striving to achieve is a difference that our customers will greatly benefit from.

This continuity of relationships also means, of course, is that we bring with us all of the experience and expertise we’ve accumulated over the last 30+ years. We may be a new company—but we have a heritage and history that’s well beyond the reach of many of our competitors.

Of course, there’s still plenty to do: we’re not yet the finished article. And, yes, there will be bumps along the way: that’s inevitable. But if excitement, commitment and enthusiasm count for anything—we won’t fail.

Rubin Dhillon

Rubin has spent over 20 years in the embedded computing world, in roles ranging from support to sales to product management and even garbage collector. He experienced the huge growth (and crash) of the telecom industry, and he's spent time dabbling in medical, industrial, transportation and military applications. Rubin figured he has so many stories to tell, he should get into marketing and so he is now our VP of Marketing. Connect with Rubin on LinkedIn and he'll explain the "garbage collector" story…