Arch AI
Turn Insights Into Scalable, Guided-Actions
At Arch Systems, culture isn’t just a backdrop — it’s a driving force behind everything we do. We are a mission-driven company where passion and purpose meet, fueled by a belief that manufacturing can be smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable. Founded by Stanford engineers and rooted in global impact work, Arch has grown into a team of both manufacturing and data experts, solving complex challenges with creativity , collaboration, and integrity.
Arch Systems was born from a simple but urgent question: How can we keep critical infrastructure running for the people who depend on it most?
A broken water pump in rural Tanzania, 2011 — a symbol of the 40% of wells found to be non-functional.
2011In 2011, our CTO and Co-founder Tim Burke was in Tanzania, working to improve access to clean drinking water. While previous efforts had focused on drilling new wells, he and his team uncovered a more pressing problem: nearly 40% of existing wells were broken at any given time. Fixing them wasn’t a matter of awareness or will– it was a matter of data. They attempted to build an ultra-low-cost cellular monitoring system, but the technology wasn’t mature yet.
2015By 2015, Tim partnered with Stanford colleague Andrew Scheuermann to co-found Arch Systems with a vision to empower people everywhere to monitor and maintain vital infrastructure. Within a year, Arch’s early systems were helping to sustain wells that served tens of thousands of people in Tanzania.
But that challenge– the disconnect between infrastructure, data, and the ability to act, wasn’t limited to rural water systems. It was everywhere. It still is.
Manufacturing, the backbone of global progress, faces the same foundational problem: systems are complex, under-monitored, and too often opaque. What began with clean water evolved into clean data, and the birth of the ArchFX Platform.
Today, Arch is trusted by the world’s largest electronics manufacturers to unlock factory-wide insights, reduce waste, and accelerate continuous improvement– all while making operations more resilient and sustainable.
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Andrew is the CEO and Co-founder of Arch, working with top-tier global manufacturers to drive intelligent actions from machine and factory data for efficiency and predictability at scale. Andrew has published over 20 scientific papers in the fields of semiconductor electronics, electronics manufacturing, and renewable energy. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Stanford where he fabricated world record silicon photoanodes enabled by a background building custom fabrication and inspection equipment in collaboration with top semiconductor equipment vendors. Andrew also helped build StartX, a top worldwide startup accelerator that invested over $200M across various companies. Outside of Arch you can find Andrew spending time with his family, sports, or advising other technologists and entrepreneurs around Silicon Valley.
Tim is an innovative and compassionate technologist with more than 10 years of embedded electronics experience. He earned a PhD at Stanford discovering the first complete theory of organic solar cell operation. Before that, he independently designed a pico-hydropower power plant as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama that was used as a model for rural electrification. As co-founder and CTO at Arch Systems, Tim leads a team of experienced data and manufacturing experts who build next-generation products that deeply understand manufacturing processes and surface intelligent actions to automatically improve them. Tim and his technologies have received multiple industry awards including a Forbes 30 Under 30 Award and the 2022 Global Technology Award for Best Product. He is passionate about empowering people to have equal access to basic resources and ensuring that the next wave of IoT devices benefits all people. Tim currently serves on the IPC-CFX technical board.
Jennifer Davis drives connections between Arch and the quickly evolving manufacturing industry. She worked previously in the start-up space; 13 years in the medical industry in development and implementation of electronic medical records systems (EMR). In recent years, her time has been spent consulting within the medical and engineering industries and the charitable sector. Her role at Arch includes ownership of marketing and communications strategies and partnerships. She has a passion for mentoring the next generation of workforce leadership; volunteering with young women’s groups, fostering learning and leadership skills, and enabling innate talents.
Gadi has 25 years of experience in different engineering roles at Motorola and Flex managing engineering and leading global innovation projects. His most recent projects included evaluating startup companies to support innovation within Flex.
Meik will support the company’s efforts to develop innovative solutions that enable customers to achieve real-time, predictive insights for electronics manufacturing.
Meik holds a BA in Mechanical Engineering and an MA in Industrial Engineering. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt™, leading and mentoring statistical projects.
Ben Freeman is the VP of Engineering at Arch. He has a passion for building successful and productive teams that deliver the right products for our clients and effective experiences for our users. Previous to Arch, Ben spent 12 years building and growing the R&D team for Shipwire, an innovator in Ecommerce Fulfillment. He looks forward to using his 20+ years of experience delivering software and solutions for the Manufacturing and Supply Chain industries to drive great outcomes in the industry.
Joel has 25 years of operations and sales experience across multiple global industries. He has a passion for helping the world’s largest industrial companies digitally transform their enterprises to unlock hidden productivity and drive breakthrough gains in sustainability. Joel started his career at Rockwell Automation, working in their electronics manufacturing factories to transform silos of data into production insights. Joel transitioned to sales and engineering leadership roles across North America with a focus on accelerating growth of key strategic software acquisitions. He holds a BA in industrial engineering from The Ohio State University as well as an MS in operations research from Cleveland State University.
Dinu has 25 years of building world-class operations across multiple global industries and technologies. He has extensive experience building and scaling successful and highly performant teams in early and mid-stage startups. His substantial experience with hyper-growth startups has allowed him to develop a blueprint for building and scaling customer success teams that deliver an outstanding customer experience to our users.
Dinu will support the company’s efforts to scale the customer operations team with a focus on accelerating growth and increasing customer satisfaction. He holds a BSc in Economic Cybernetics from the University of Bucharest and looks forward to helping Arch become the undisputed leader in the manufacturing decision intelligence space.
Ayishah has been instrumental in building and nurturing people operations functions within technology start-ups for over 15 years. Prior to her role at Arch, she held the position of Director of People and Culture at Sounding Board.
Ayishah is passionate about formulating and executing strategies and initiatives aimed at enhancing communication, fostering connection, and nurturing a positive workplace culture. Beyond her professional endeavors, Ayishah is an advocate for mental health, a dedicated business coach, and a mentor to aspiring early-career human resources professionals.
Ayishah holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University and has earned an Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of North Alabama. Additionally, she holds senior HR certifications from both the Human Resources Certification Institute and the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM).
Hank has a passion for helping great people grow great companies especially in and around manufacturing environments. Earlier in his career at Intel, Hank (as an experienced plant controller) traveled to internal factories worldwide, advising factory management teams during the company’s sprint to achieve World-Class Manufacturing standards. He and his team were awarded the company’s highest honor for the positive impact of this critical financial element on Intel’s transition to manufacturing excellence. Hank has led Finance at several start-ups along the way to his current role at Arch where he assists the leadership team in expanding its approach to sharing sophisticated state-of-the-art tools with manufacturers in a variety of industries. Hank holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business along with a BA from Duke. He resides in the San Francisco Bay area along with his wife (and tropical fish).
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