Richard Schwass

Managing Director

In 1996, Richard met Keith Hitchings (the founder of Quasar Electronics) at a trade show. Richard's interest in the Power Measurement products that Quasar supplied drove him to learn all he could about these products. This developed into a such a strong interest that he set up his own company to help Quasar integrate these metering solutions. In 2007, Richard merged his company with Quasar Electronics to become the Quasar Systems that we have today.

The possibilities that energy and power quality data have for transforming businesses is what really motivates Richard. He looks forward to see what the future holds for energy management in New Zealand with so many emerging technologies coming to the fold.

On the weekends, Richard is usually tearing up some remote valley track on his adventure motorcycle. If Richard could invite anyone (living, deceased or imaginary) to a dinner party, he’d invite Elon Musk, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla (and a translator).

Client Services

Greg Hansen
Sales & Marketing Manager

Responsibilities: Leading the sales and marketing team, building and maintaining relationships with clients and managing marketing activities.

Greg’s ultimate dinner party guests: Richard Branson, Roger Federer and Dave Grohl.

Arneil Dalope
Senior Application Engineer

Responsibilities: delivering customer support, training and other client services offers.
Product specialist and lab co-ordinator. 

On weekends, you can usually find Arneil: in the kitchen cooking a big breakfast for his family.

John Billows
Business Development / Technical Sales

Responsibilities: Identifying new business opportunities and building and maintaining relationships with prospective and current clients.

John’s hidden talent: I’m a musician, songwriter and producer.

Caroline Dovey
Sales & Marketing Administrator

Responsibilities: Supporting the sales team, managing our digital presence and other marketing activities.

Caroline’s favourite travel spot: Vanuatu – a beautiful place with friendly people, great weather and lots to do.

Projects

Eric Tjiptadjaja
Engineering Manager

Responsibilities: Providing leadership and assistance to our engineering team and technical support to customers. Building and installing ADMS, video surveillance and energy monitoring systems.

The most unique place Eric’s travelled to: an offshore drilling platform. Sometimes a bit boring but consider how many people will ever have a chance to go there.

Leah Sun
Project Engineer

Responsibilities: Development, design and commissioning of energy/power management systems using Schneider Electric products and development of meter data collection systems.

Leah’s ideal superhero power: Immortality (provided I also have the power to give it up) – then I have infinite time to learn everything.

Welly Xu
Project Engineer

Responsibilities: Development, design and commissioning of energy/power management systems using a range of Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure, PowerLogic and ION products.

Welly’s ideal superhero power: Flying - it would save me a lot of money travelling around the world!

Olivier Casalta
Project Engineer

Responsibilities: Development, design and commissioning of energy/power management systems using a range of Schneider Electric products.

Olivier's ultimate dinner party guests: Django Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène and Sylvain Luc.

Andrea Baldin
Industrial Programmer

Responsibilities: Supporting and enhancing our existing range of software solutions, developing new solutions and overseeing the development of our project engineers programming skills.

Andrea's ideal superhero: The Hulk - it would be great to have super strength and be beautiful and green!

Finance and Operations

Leanne Chapman
Finance & Operations Manager

Responsibilities: Overseeing Quasar’s day-to-day finance and operations activities and performing financial analysis, reporting and management activities.

Leanne's hidden talent: People that know me professionally are often surprised that I do musical theatre.

Gail Griffiths
Office Administrator

Responsibilities: Organising and administering daily operations of the office, providing assistance to team members and managing customer enquiries.

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University of Canterbury

How we designed and implemented an EcoStruxure Power solution at University of Canterbury

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We have been around since 1983. Learn more about our history.

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