Leonard Baker, Riptide Canada’s Director, said “I’m tremendously happy to be starting the next iteration of Riptide in an exciting location with a significant demand and market expansion underway. We are looking to continue the steep growth and success of Riptide by establishing a Canadian subsidiary positioned to support a very active marine technology user and development market.“ Lenny added that they expect to see robust employee headcount growth as several new programs come to fruition and more vehicles are delivered over the next few years.
Jeff Smith, Riptide’s President and CEO, said “we are excited to be in a position to add this office in such a critical location as Halifax, supporting our local customers and working closely to enable the cutting edge maritime development and leading edge research with flexible and extensible AUV systems. Lenny’s technical knowledge and experience developing all of Riptide’s products, combined with his corporate history from our founding 3 and a half years ago, makes him the ideal candidate to lead this effort.”
Riptide Canada plans to establish development, production, and support capabilities in the Halifax area and add staff to meet their growing product demands over the next several years.
About Riptide
Riptide Autonomous Solutions is a small business focused on Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) development and production. Riptide’s flagship product is the Micro-UUV, a highly flexible, open source autonomous undersea vehicle that provides a state-of-the-art, low cost solution for operators and developers of UUV sensors.
