Steve Loftus – Innovative Automation Inc.
Innovative Automation designs and builds industrial automation equipment, mostly for the automotive industry. Steve Loftus has led Innovative Automation as President since late 2014, and the company has tripled in the number of employees and sales since then. Throughout this period he remained focused on the people, and today has cultivated a workforce that trusts and respects him and appreciates his fact-based decision-making approach.
Steve leads the company by instilling values of trust and respect, and encourages teamwork, collaboration, and new this year--intrapreneurship. Our culture of trust, respect and fostering creativity allowed two of our young workers (under age 30) to come forward with ideas on how we could make a difference in the fight against COVID19. Within 7 days we had a Face Shield assembly line built, products sourced, and family members lined up to run production. Within 11 days we had delivered 10,000 face shields to our local hospitals with orders for more than 200,000 units. As of April 16, 2020, we are working closely with Health Canada and NGEN to obtain approvals necessary to produce 250 TidalPump ventilators per week.
The best part of our culture is that we all learn from each other, no matter where we sit on the org chart, and that we LOVE to solve problems together.
