Omron Hires Key Staff in BC, Alberta and Ontario

Sept 4, 2018

Omron Canada Inc. has appointed Sean Garrity as Territory Account Manager — British Columbia, Bashar Abuhamdan as Account Manager — Southern Alberta, and Michael Joaquin as Safety Services Specialist (shown in photo L-R).

Reporting directly to Josh Yates, Regional Sales Manager — Western Canada, Sean Garrity will be responsible for building relationships and exploring opportunities to collaborate on projects with end users, EPCs, system integrators and OEMs. Sean’s background in consulting combined with a deep connection to the engineering community in BC will help to raise Omron’s Industrial Automation market presence on the West Coast.

Sean holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) where he graduated as class valedictorian. After obtaining his degree he spent over five years working as a consulting engineer specializing in controls for power generation, public safety systems and bulk material handling. Sean has a breadth of experience in design, pre-operational verification, commissioning and troubleshooting at facilities across Canada. Sean is also the Chair for the IEEE Canada Young Professionals committee and sits on the steering committee for the BCBC NEXT Leaders program; Sean.Garrity@omron.com, 604-209-3351.

Also reporting to Josh Yates, Bashar Abuhamdan will be responsible for managing Omron’s end users, EPCs, system integrators and OEMs. Bashar holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and MBA from University of Leicester, UK with over 22 years of career experience in sales and marketing with multinational organizations, including 3M, Schneider Electric, Honeywell and Lloyd’s Register within Canada and overseas markets. He has held senior roles in sales and marketing in various sectors, e.g., electrical, construction, engineering consulting services, channel partner management, and oil and gas.

For the past two and a half years he held the role of Business Development Manager for Lloyd’s Register in the oil and gas engineering consultancy services in Saudi Arabia, focused on developing the business in health, safety and environment study, HAZOP, HAZID and risk based inspections. Prior to this role he was with Honeywell Limited for eight years and based out of Vancouver, where he was responsible for fire and gas detection sales for construction, oil and gas sectors covering the BC and Alberta market; Bashar.Dan@omron.com, 403-370-6323.

Michael Joaquin reports to Brett Lupton, Sales Manager, Advanced Sensing & Safety, and will be responsible for Omron’s strategic and tactical actions to increase sales within all of Omron’s key industries, which include Automotive, Food, Beverage, Packaging, Pharmaceutical as well as Infrastructure and Government.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Ryerson University, and is a Professional Engineer with over 17 years of career experience. He has held in-house engineering, project management and engineering management roles in the automotive manufacturing sector, and for the past 5 years has worked as a consultant with a practice focused on pre-start health and safety reviews, HAZOP, hazard and risk assessment, design and implementation of safeguards, and arc flash assessment. Michael was also a member of the technical committee for CSA Z432-16 Safeguarding of Machinery; michael.joaquin@omron.com, 416-320-1381.