Meet the Quasar Team - About Us

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

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

Arneil Dalope
Senior Application Engineer

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

John Billows
Business Development / Technical Sales

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

Caroline Dovey
Sales & Marketing Administrator

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

Projects

Eric Tjiptadjaja
Engineering Manager

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

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