Company Ownership

Essential Systems was founded by Bob Kaule and John Todhunter in 1984. Every project at Essential Systems is headed by one of the two partners ensuring that your project gets the attention, expertise, and resources that it requires.

Dr. John Todhunter - nospam-john@essensys.com

John is our main database guru. He also does alot of our non-UI development and system integration software.

John has taught database systems and database internals at the university and graduate levels. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, specializing in computer engineering, and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Computing, Mathematics, and Cybernetics at Kazan State University in Kazan, Russia. John is a certified DB2 Administrator.

Bob Kaule - nospam-bob@essensys.com

Bob specializes in GUI applications and custom hardware components. He is our Lotus Notes expert.

Bob has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He has over 25 years of experience in computing concentrating in automation, real-time computing, client/server systems and database systems.