EUGENE– Companies can thrive as well as survive in today’s cutthroat business climate if they are willing to take chances and, when necessary, compete with themselves, advises a successful Tucson entrepreneur.

High-tech business developer Jim Jindrick, at a free public talk at 7 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27, will share his take on how businesses constantly need to reinvent themselves. The early morning talk is sponsored by the University of Oregon’s Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship and will be held at the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, 1401 Willamette St.

Jindrick is a founder and partner in Wencil Research, LLC, located in Tucson, Ariz., a technology-based business development and investment company. He co-founded and served 13 years as vice president of Intelligent Instrumentation, Inc., a leading manufacturer of personal computer data acquisition, collection, analysis and control products. He also has held management positions with the Burr-Brown Corp., Cooper Power Systems, Thomas A. Edison Technical Center and Snap-On Tools, Inc.

As an entrepreneur-in-residence, he will work with UO students and Eugene entrepreneurs to bring his expertise in innovation and high-tech ventures to the classroom.

Jindrick has worked in business planning and development, international marketing and sales, and product research and development. He has developed procedures that allowed his company to meet ISO 9001 international standards of manufacturing products and services.

He has developed an array of high-tech products that have generated more than $200 million in lifetime sales. Jindrick has been granted seven U.S. and numerous international patents. He earned an engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1989, Jindrick has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct faculty member in the Berger Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Arizona.

For more information, contact Barry Weisband, director of the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, at (541) 346-3312.

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