George Brunemann is NgEK's President and CTO.  He is the company's technical visionary.

With a master's degree and 30 years industry experience, he is an expert in the design and development of high reliability systems. His top-down Architecture Process to design enables NgEK to deliver systems that cost-effectively meet technically demanding requirements now, and insures that they will continue to do so as the products and markets in which they are used evolve.

Mr. Brunemann has led the development of enterprise-wide approaches to product architecture in the creation, manufacture, and support of electronic products ranging from embedded controllers to Internet technologies. In an effort to establish an industry standard, George conceived and evangelized the "Machine Information eXchange (MIX) API", an open source, Java-based standard for connecting desktop computer systems with the embedded systems in mobile equipment.  This approach forms the foundation for the company's interface to the Electronic Computational EngineTM currently used in its digital powertrain control system.

George's engine career began at General Electric Aircraft Engines where he spent 8 years in a number of increasingly responsible roles.  While at GE, he led the design and development of command, control and fault management systems for turbine engines, for both civilian and military customers.  George created the first real-time jet engine simulator used to expedite flight qualification of the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF).  As a result of these efforts, Mr. Brunemann was the recipient of the GE Young Engineer award.

In 1993, he took this expertise to Cummins and applied it to the control of particulate and exhaust management in their diesel truck engine product line.  His development efforts resulted in the first EPA emission compliant engine in 2002.  Based on his "Robust by DesignTM" philosophy, this control system continues to be used in all engine models in production at Cummins.  This has saved the company hundreds of man-years of development, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and secured them as the undisputed leader in diesel emissions.

Since forming NgEK, his leadership and technical approach has resulted in the dominant transmission and hybrid powertrains in the commercial truck market.  NgEK embedded systems are currently used in over 75% of the diesel hybrids on the road today.

His novel aspects of integrating Internet technology into embedded computers have been captured into two patent applications made in 1999. In addition, Mr. Brunemann holds11 patents on topics ranging from engine emissions control to system fault detection and response.

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