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34 SMT007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2026 coating and related processes. It's an opportunistic approach to growing the business through services and capabilities. That seems to be in keeping with what's going on in the market. How do you grow and find the right opportunity in the right place? We've been very fortunate with the pedigree of our management team. In the early 2000s, we accumulated a stable of relationships with the engineering community in Silicon Valley. Those people now say, "I remember these Omega guys. Let's give them a call." Just like that, we have a new customer who already knows what kind of business we are, and then we do our thing: "make it happen (MIH)." We really lived and breathed that early on: whatever it took—answering calls and emails after hours, working weekends—to perform a service or complete a job for a customer. That DNA is still there. With 200 people, we're much bigger now, and company culture sometimes morphs over time. We're approaching $100 million in sales, and we've added a Vietnam location. That makes it harder to maintain the grass- roots culture, but it's still there, and we still do our best to MIH wherever we possibly can. What specific type of work are you referring to—prototyping, high-mix, or high-volume runs? In 2015, we started with a prototyping and NPI focus, but we have morphed into a produc- tion-oriented EMS company. Roughly 80% of our revenue is production-related and not just PCBA. We do full system integration, full functional test- ing, build-outs, and even logistics services, includ- ing order fulfillment. We are a rapidly maturing EMS company with roots in prototyping and MIH. We haven't lost that recipe. We're structured with two primary operating flows: a dedicated NPI environment focused on speed and flexibility, and a production environ- ment optimized for scale and efficiency. This dual structure allows us to support early-stage engi- neering while seamlessly transitioning customers into volume production. You've had a lot of growth in these 10 years. How do you feel about the growth in revenue and head- count, plus the new locations you've mentioned? We've done great, and we continue to do great. We've had years up and flat years here or there. Now we're back to having big growth years—we grew about 20% last year and will do so again this year. It's exciting times for us. We have great offerings, culture, and employees. Our plan is to keep growing. Our Vietnam plant came online in December, and our plan, as you would imagine, is to move some of our steady-runner programs there to offload some production work and free up some space in our California plant for NPI and high-mix, low- to moderate-volume solutions. We received our ISO certification about 45 days ago, and we're now hosting customer qualification audits. We'll grow in this dual footprint fashion, at least for the next several years, and then we'll see if we need more infrastructure in the U.S. C hris A lessio