Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 12, 1999

Herbert L. Fischer – Logitek Inc (lgtk)

HERBERT L. FISCHER is President, CEO and founder of Logitek, Inc. Early in his career Mr. Fischer had been employed as an electronics engineer through project manager and chief engineer at various companies including Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp., Loral Electronics Corp. and Ferranti Electronics, Inc. He founded Logitek in June of 1961 for the purpose of exploiting his management and engineering abilities in the field of sophisticated electronic timing devices. His current operating interests are in financial and operations management and new product development. Mr. Fischer was born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. His educational background includes: US Naval Class 'A' Electronics School and Queens College, New York. He holds a patent for a Long Term Magnetostrictive Timing Device. Mr. Fischer is married and has four children. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief overview and a little bit of the history of

Logitek, just to set the stage for the readers.

Mr. Fischer: Logitek was organized in 1969 for the purpose of exploiting

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