Irvine Sensors Gives Interim CEO the Job

Irvine Sensors Corp. said Thursday that it has named Robert G. Richards president, chief executive and a director.

Richards has been interim CEO since June, when the Costa Mesa company underwent a top-level shake-up as it moved to develop and market high-tech gadgetry that it developed through years of research for the military.

Richards succeeds former CEO James Evert, who resigned in June to head Irvine Sensors’ newest subsidiary, RedHawk Vision Inc. Richards previously was president of Aerojet Electronic Systems Division.

The company’s stock closed at $2.09, off 31 cents a share, on the Nasdaq market.

The company on Thursday also named Maurice C. Inman Jr. to its board. Inman is a former chief counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and principal of Inman & Associates, a law firm specializing in international labor matters.

Bernhard Baumgartner was named senior vice president and general manager for its commercial products group. Baumgartner was most recently president and chief executive of Krones Inc., the U.S. unit of a German company specializing in industrial control systems and processes.