SENSORWISE - Key Persons


Abbas Arian

Job Titles:
  • VP Engineering and CST Group VP Engineering
Abbas completed his Bachelor's and Master degrees from University of Houston. While working at his first job designing Rock Bits at Hughes Tool Company, he also completed his MBA. Later he moved to NL industries designing Measurement-While-Drilling tools. His design engineering role was continued at Western Geophysical where he designed and tested vibrator and Impact truck and air guns for the seismic industry. Eventually he moved within Western Atlas, initially as a design engineer, and later as the Mechanical Engineering Manager for the MWD and Wireline downhole tools. In late 1995, he continued his engineering and management endeavors at SensorWise with his business partners Larry and Georgios. His main concentration has been in mechanical engineering and project leadership for developments for major high tech oilfield service and equipment companies.

Georgios Varsamis

Job Titles:
  • VP Business Development and CST Group CFO
Following his undergraduate studies in Greece where he obtained both Bachelor's degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Georgios graduated with a Master's and Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. After graduation, he worked for a couple of years at Los Alamos National Laboratory in their Controlled Thermonuclear Research division. He then switched energy segments (from Fusion to Oil & Gas) and moved to Houston where he worked for several years in one of the major oil services companies, Western Atlas, having held positions in design (MWD and wireline tools), Systems Engineering, Project and Program Management and management. Georgios is one of the founding partners for SensorWise, Primary Sourcing, Masterpiece Machine and the CST Group. Georgios holds the position of VP Business Development of SensorWise and is the CFO for the CST Group.

Laurence (Larry) Wisniewski

Job Titles:
  • President and CST Group President
Larry graduated with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. After working as an Electrical Engineer in Michigan for a few years in the auto industry, he moved to Houston and worked for a NL Industries, a major service company in the Oil and Gas industry, developing the early Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) downhole tools. Eventually moving from a design engineer to management roles, he then moved to Western Atlas, another major service company, and became the Engineering Manager for the Wireline downhole tool development department. In 1995, Larry, Abbas and Georgios started SensorWise, a contract engineering firm specializing in downhole tool development. Afterwards, Larry and his partners started two more companies: Primary Sourcing (manufacturing) and Masterpiece Machine. All three companies are now under the CertainSource Technology (CST) Group, of which Larry is also the President.