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Right now we are getting a well established reputation for our radar signal processing and display technology. Rutter has been a world leader in the shipboard ice detection and navigation market with its Ice Navigator radar system.

We are now achieving a leadership position in the oil spill detection market.

Since helping to found Rutter, what do you count as your greatest accomplishment(s)?

We took Rutter in its infancy to making it a well-known and respected company in the marine business. We were a small Canadian company growing from virtually noth- ing, and now we are well recognized by the industry. I think this is a significant accomplishment.

What do you count as your greatest challenges?

Our greatest challenges have been finding the capital to achieve what we wanted to do, maintaining the products and services, and establishing a global network to support our products and services.

Since Rutter was created, what do you count as the most important industry trend that has helped to shape the company and its offering today?

Rutter was created to supply voyage data recorders for the mandated commercial marine market. The require- ment of retrofitting VDRs to existing cargo vessels that came into place in 2007, along with the earlier fitting requirement for passenger vessels, was probably the most important industry trend at the time that helped shape the company and gave us the recognition in the market glob- ally. We did realize early on that this market would phase out in a few years; so we made sure we had other tech- nologies to diversify the company and to allow us moving into other markets. One of the more interesting trends that have recently occurred and impacted us was the off- shore industry moving into the Arctic. This has given us the opportunity to provide our ice navigation technology and is certainly having positive impact on our oil spill detection radar business.

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