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Phillip DeZwirek is Chairman & CEO of API Nanotronics Corp. and founder CEO & Chairman of API Electronics Group a manufacturer of electronic components and systems for the defense and communications industries. He founded API in 1981 and has led the company through ten acquisitions making it a consolidator in the industry. Today API has a growing list of blue chip customers including the U.S. Department of Defense Honeywell/Allied Signal General Dynamics Lockheed Martin and Boeing and owns state-of-the-art manufacturing and technology centers in the U.S. and Canada.
In addition to his position with API Mr. DeZwirek is also Chairman and CEO of CECO Environmental Corp North America's largest independent pollution control company. Mr. DeZwirek has grown CECO from $200 000 in revenue in 1991 to over $100 million in 2006.
Prior to API and CECO Mr. DeZwirek was a founder of Bata Resources in the 1970s consolidating numerous oil companies in Alberta and eventually merging with Pan Ocean Oil on the New York Stock Exchange making him the only CEO to take a company from the Vancouver Stock Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange. The company was later sold for $250 million to Marathon Oil which is still listed on the New York Stock Exchange and has a market cap of over $30 billion.
Mr. DeZwirek sits on the boards of and has numerous investments in many public and privately held companies. | 