BNET Industries

Market Cap:$20.2M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$57.9M
  • Public
  • US
Dow Jones Description

DRI Corporation is a digital communications technology leader in the domestic and international public transportation and transit security markets. Our products include: TwinVision and Mobitec electronic destination sign systems, Talking Bus voice announcement systems, Digital Recorders Internet-based passenger information and automatic vehicle location/monitoring systems, and VacTell video actionable intelligence systems. Our products help increase the mobility, flow, safety, and security of people who rely upon transportation infrastructure around the globe. Using proprietary hardware and software applications, our products provide easy-to-understand, real-time information that assists users and operators of transit bus and rail vehicles in locating, identifying, boarding, tracking, scheduling, and managing those vehicles. Our products also aid transit vehicle operators in their quest to increase ridership and reduce fuel consumption, as well as to identify and mitigate security risks on transit vehicles. Positioned not only to serve and address mobility, energy conservation, and environmental concerns, our products also serve the growing U.S. Homeland Security market. Incorporated in 1983 in the State of North Carolina, DRI Corporation is traded on The NASDAQ Capital Market and the Boston Stock Exchange . Our ticker symbol is "TBUS." Our Mission. We provide products and services at the sub-system level that are designed to facilitate and increase the flow of people...

Chairman, President & CEO
David L. Turney
Number of Employees 212
Contact Information

5949 Sherry Ln Ste 1050

Dallas, Texas 75225

www.digrec.com

(214) 378-8992

NAICS Code Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing: 334220

Recent Events

  • DRI Corporation Reports Profitable Third Quarter 2009

    11/16/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • DRI Corporation Posts Positive Second Quarter 2009 Results and Increases Earnings Guidance to 22 Cents

    8/13/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Lawrence Hagemann Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Rob R. Taylor Coo, Operations, North Carolina & Vice President
Stephen P. Slay Cfo, Treasurer, Secretary & Vice President
James Kennedy Vice President, Engineering & Operations, North Carolina
Tanya L Johnson Vice President, Operations
William F. Fay Vice President and General Manager
Oliver Wels Managing Director, Mobitec Gmbh
Agne I. Axelsson Manager, Finance & Personnel
Roberto Demore Executive Manager, Mobitec Brasil Ltda.
Veronica Marks Manager, Corp Communications
John D. Higgins Director
John K. Pirotte Director

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
David L. Turney Chairman, President & CEO
C. James Meese Jr. Board of Directors
J. Phillips L. Johnston Board of Directors
Juliann Tenney Board of Directors
Nuria I. Fernandez Board of Directors
Russell C. Cleveland Board of Directors
Stephanie L. Pinson Board of Directors

David L. Turney has been DRI Corporation Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President since May 1998, and a DRI director since May 1996. Mr. Turney was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Robinson Turney International, Inc., which was merged into DRI in April 1998. A consulting firm, Robinson Turney International, Inc. engaged in business development, marketing services, advisory services, and merger, acquisition and financing assignments for selected clients. Until the merger, DRI was a Robinson Turney International, Inc. client and all Robinson Turney International, Inc. clients were in the transit and transportation equipment industries. From March 1994 to December 1995, Mr. Turney was also engaged in strategic planning and development consulting services for his former employer, Mark IV Industries, Inc. (Mark IV), a New York Stock Exchange listed company prior to its acquisition by a private investor. Mr. Turney founded the Mark IV Transportation Products Group, a group of nine companies, subsidiaries and operating units serving transit and transportation markets worldwide, and served as its Group Executive from February 1991 to February 1994. From 1984 to 1991, Mr. Turney was President of the Luminator division of Gulton Industries, Inc., which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mark IV in 1987. Prior to 1984, Mr. Turney served in various managerial and engineering capacities in four corporations spanning the telecommunications, industrial hard goods, consumer electronics, and electromagnetic components industries. Mr. Turney is active in the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). A former chair of APTA's Business Members group, he presently serves on the APTA Executive Committee and the Board of Directors, as well as other industry elected and appointed positions. He is a trustee of the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose (California) State University. Mr. Turney received his B.S. degree in industrial management from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and he has participated in numerous postgraduate study courses in finance, mergers and acquisitions, public company administration, and operations.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Chairman, President & CEO Current
Dri, Inc. Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer Former
Dri, Inc. President Former
Mark IV Industries, Inc. Former
Riverside Transport Inc. Former
Dri, Inc. Director Former
University of Arkansas B.S. Degree In Industrial Management Former

Lawrence A. Hagemann, the Company's Chief Operating Officer of North Carolina Operations since August 2002 and a highly experienced engineer, assumed the responsibilities of Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in December 2005. He also is Assistant Secretary. Mr. Hagemann has held several DRI leadership positions since 1998, when he first joined the Company. He has more than 15 years' transit-industry experience, including extensive experience in advanced software and micro-processor systems. From July 1995 to July 1996, Mr. Hagemann was Vice President of ADDAX Sound Company, a privately held company in Illinois. From April 1991 to December 1993, he served as Assistant to the President of Vapor-Mark IV in Illinois. From 1973 to 1990, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Extel Corporation in Illinois, as well as a Director of Excom Communications Limited in Slough, England, and Extel Overseas Limited in Hong Kong. A 1967 graduate of the University of Detroit, Mr. Hagemann earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1972, he earned an M.B.A. from Loyola University in Chicago. Mr. Hagemann and his wife, Karen, reside in Raleigh, N.C. He has two grown daughters and enjoys playing classical piano.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer Current
Transtel Communications, Incorporated Director Current
Extel Vice President of Sales and Marketing Former
Loyola University M.B.A. Former
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Bachelor's Degree Former

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Coo, Operations, North Carolina & Vice President Current
CompanyA Vice President, Chief Operating Officer Current
Fast Forward Video Executive Vice President Former

Stephen P. Slay has been DRI’s Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Treasurer since March 2007. Mr. Slay served as the Company’s Corporate Controller from April 2006 to March 2007. From August 2005 to April 2006, he was engaged as the Company’s Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance consultant. Mr. Slay has been an important resource for the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission and internal reporting, planning, and compliance matters. From September 2003 to August 2005, Mr. Slay served as Corporate Controller at Axtive Corporation (OTC: AXTC) in Dallas, Texas. As the principal accounting and financial officer, he was responsible for administering all accounting, finance and treasury functions for the public company and its subsidiaries. From July 1998 to September 2003, Mr. Slay was Manager, Channels Finance, at McAfee, Inc. (fka Network Associates, Inc.), in Dallas. While there, he developed and implemented policies and procedures for controlling the company’s expenditures, developed and implemented policies and procedures for accurate tracking and reporting services, and developed models for forecasting revenues and expenses. Prior to July 1998, Mr. Slay was Controller at Zane Publishing, Inc., Dallas, and held senior- and manager-level accounting positions at Greyhound Lines, Inc., Dallas; BancTEXAS Group, Inc., Dallas; and Arthur Andersen & Company, Oklahoma City, Okla. A 1985 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Mr. Slay majored in Accounting.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Cfo, Treasurer, Secretary & Vice President Current

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Vice President, Engineering & Operations, North Carolina Current
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. Current
Baird & Baird Current
Kentucky Bar Association Board of Directors Current
Kentucky Bar Association Member Current
University of Kentucky Juris Doctorate Former
University of Kentucky B.S.E Former

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Vice President, Operations Current
Digital Recorders, Inc. Co-Developer Former
Duke University B.S.E Former

William F. Fay Jr. has more than 20 years' transit-industry experience, including extensive experience working directly with transit and school bus original equipment manufacturers and their customers. In August 2005, Mr. Fay joined DRI Corporation as Vice President, General Manager of its TwinVision na, Inc. subsidiary in Durham, N.C. In May 2008, he also assumed responsibility for the Company’s Digital Recorders, Inc. subsidiary, also based in Durham, N.C. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Fay was Regional Sales Manager at Eldorado National in Macon, Ga., and Riverside, Calif. While there, he served as liaison between the factory and distributors, and assisted in all aspects of sales, including the development and execution of sales strategies for factory-direct products and targeted niche markets. From 1993 to 2004, Mr. Fay worked in various sales and marketing management positions with Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Ga., Scottsdale, Ariz., and Chelmsford, Mass. From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Fay worked in various management positions at Commonwealth Thomas, Inc. in Milford, N.H., where he was responsible for the coordination of all aspects of school and commercial product lines. A 1986 graduate of the University of Lowell in Lowell, Mass., Mr. Fay earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on design and material management. Mr. Fay and wife, Lida, have two children. The family resides in North Carolina.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Vice President and General Manager Current
Twinvision NA, Inc. Vice President & General Manager Former
El Dorado National Regional Sales Manager Former
Blue Bird Corporation Former
University of Lowell Former

Mr. Wels has more than 20 years' experience in the bus and coach industry. He has been Managing Director of Mobitec GmbH since March 1, 2005. Prior to joining Mobitec GmbH, Mr. Wels held key positions at Carrier Sutrak, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrier Corporation/United Technologies in Syracuse, N.Y., that provides air conditioning products for buses, coaches, and rail cars in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. While there, he served as Sales Director from 2001 to 2005 and managed the marketing and distribution network development program from 1998 to 2001. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Wels served as Product Manager for Mobitec products in Germany under an agreement between Mobitec AB and Carrier Sutrak. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Wels was Bus and Coach Sales Manager for Western Europe at Ortner and Gollmann, a sales and distribution company based in Germany. From 1983 to 1986, Mr. Wels served that organization as a trainee. Mr. Wels holds a MBA degree in general management of the Sankt Gallen University in Switzerland. Mr. Wels and his wife, Monika, reside in Aichtal, Germany. They have one daughter, Annalena. The family enjoys sports, the cinema, reading books, and vacationing in the Tuscany region of Italy. Mr. Wels also enjoys working in his garden.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Managing Director, Mobitec Gmbh Current

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Manager, Finance & Personnel Current

Mr. Demore has more than 28 years' transit-industry experience. He is the executive manager of Mobitec Brasil Ltda., a company he co-founded in 1999. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Demore managed his own company, JADI Itineraries Company, using all his bus market knowledge to start and grow the company's operations. From 1975 to 1993, Mr. Demore held various positions at Marcopolo S.A. During his last six years with that organization, he served as production manager and helped establish the Marcopolo factory in Mexico. Mr. Demore and his wife, Lorena, have three children: Guilherme, Gabriela, and Georgea. He enjoys playing soccer, hunting, and fishing, as well as going to the beach with his family.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Executive Manager, Mobitec Brasil Ltda. Current

Veronica B. Marks has been with DRI Corporation since July 2001. As Corporate Communications Manager and Assistant Secretary, she is responsible for the Company’s marketing/communications, investor and public relations, intellectual property, and employee benefits programs. Before joining the Company, Ms. Marks was Acting Marketing Manager at H.D. Vest Financial Services, a non-bank subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co in Irving, Texas. In addition to holding other marketing/communications and investor relations positions, she previously sold securities and life insurance products for Edward Jones Investments, a multi-national broker/dealer based in St. Louis, Mo. An award-winning writer, Ms. Marks is a member of the Press Club of Dallas, the International Association of Business Communicators and its Dallas Chapter, and the National Institute of Investor Relations (NIRI) and its Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter. She has served on the NIRI Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter’s Board of Directors since June 2005. A 1986 graduate of The University of Tulsa, Ms. Marks earned a B.A. degree in Communications. In addition, she has passed the Series 7 and Series 63 securities examinations, as well as the Texas Group I (life/health insurance) examination. Ms. Marks also holds a current Texas Notary Public commission. She also is an active member of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, the Carrollton Evening Lions Club, Phi Mu Fraternity, and the Dallas Area Phi Mu Alumnae Chapter. Ms. Marks and her husband, Jim, reside in Lewisville, Texas. They have two children, James and Andrew.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Manager, Corp Communications Current
Wells Fargo & Company Former

Organization Position Status
Smart Online, Inc. Interim President & CEO Current
Business Development Associates, LLC. President Current
Raleigh Rescue Mission President Current
Business Development Associates, LLC. Founder Current
Smart Online, Inc. Chairman Current
Community Music School Director Current
Digital Recorders, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Electrical Equipment Company Director Current
Nacd Board of Directors Current
Raleigh Rescue Mission Board of Directors Current
Gray Security Services Director Current
Smart Online, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Temple University M.B.A. Former

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Board of Directors Current

John D. Higgins has served as a DRI director since 1998. From 1990 through November 1999, Mr. Higgins was Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance for Royce Investment Group, Inc., certain assets of which were subsequently acquired by Investec Ernst & Company, an international investment and merchant banking firm. Mr. Higgins is currently retired from Investec Ernst and pursuing personal business interests. He holds B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Hofstra University.

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Director Current
Hofstra University M.B.A. Degrees Former
Hofstra University B.B.A. Former

Mr. Pirotte has been President of Axxiom Manufacturing, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of air blast equipment, since August 2003. He also has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CORPEX Technologies Inc., a privately held company that develops and markets surface active chemical technology, since September 1990. From March 1997 to December 2003, he served as President of Matrix Surface Technologies Inc., a privately held company that develops and markets mechanical surface treatment technologies. Mr. Pirotte also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Teleion Wireless, Inc., a privately held company that develops and markets wireless data communication modules, from August 2000 to March 2002. In addition, Mr. Pirotte was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1981 until 1986 and Chief Financial Officer from 1979 to 1981 of The Aviation Group, Inc., a former NASDAQ -listed company that was acquired in 1985. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Pharmanetics, Inc., a publicly traded biotech company (OTC.BB: PHAR) specializing in theranostic management of various therapeutics affecting coagulation. He is a founding director of North Carolina Enterprise Corp., a venture capital fund. Mr. Pirotte holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and an M.S. degree from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Organization Position Status
Axxiom Manufacturing, Inc. President Current
Digital Recorders, Inc. Director Current
Pharmanetics, Inc. Member of the Board of Directors Current
The Aviation Group, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Former
The Aviation Group, Inc. Chief Financial Officer Former
Pharmanetics, Inc. member Former
The Aviation Group, Inc. Chairman Former
New York University M.S. Degree Former
Princeton University B.A. Degree Former

Employed by Duke University since September 1998, Ms. Tenney presently serves as Associate Dean, Compliance, for the Duke University School of Medicine. She has been a lecturer in Duke University's Nonprofit Management program since 1989. From August 1990 through July 1993, she served as Executive Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board, an interstate alliance charged with designing economic development and growth strategies for southern governors and legislators. From August 1988 to August 1990, Ms. Tenney served as Director for the Economic and Corporate Development Division of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and also as their House Legal Counsel. From November 1987 to August 1988, Ms. Tenney was Assistant Secretary at the North Carolina Department of Commerce. From August 1985 to November 1987, she was Executive Director of the North Carolina Technological Development Authority. Prior to that time, she was a practicing attorney. Ms. Tenney received a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina and a law degree from Duke University.

Organization Position Status
Duke University Lecturer Current
Duke University School of Medicine Associate Dean Current
Digital Recorders, Inc. Board of Directors Current
North Carolina Technological Development Authority, Inc. Executive Director Former
North Carolina Biotechnology Center Director, Corporate Development Division Former
North Carolina Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary Former
North Carolina Department of Commerce Board of Directors Former
Duke University Law Degree Former
The University of North Carolina B.A. Degree Former
Duke University Degree Former

Organization Position Status
Digital Recorders, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Chicago Transit Authority Senior Vice President Former
Earth Tech, Inc. Senior Vice President of Business Development Former
Roosevelt University Master of Science degree in Business Administration Former
Bradley University Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering Former

Organization Position Status
Renaissance Capital Growth & Income Fund III, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Current
Renaissance Capital Group Founder, President, and CEO Current
Renaissance Capital Group Chairman of The Board, President, Chief Current
Renaissance Capital Growth & Income Fund III, Inc. President Current
Internet Marketing Images, Inc. Current
Renaissance US Growth Investment Trust Plc Board of Directors Current
Integrated Security Systems, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Renaissance Capital Growth & Income Fund III, Inc. Director Current
Digica, Inc Board of Directors Current
Caminosoft Corp Board of Directors Current
Tutogen Medical Inc. Board of Directors Current
Digital Recorders, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Cover-All Technologies, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Recorders, Inc. Former
Systems, Inc. Former
The Board, Inc. Chairman Former
Access Plans USA Board of Directors Former

Organization Position Status
Gilbert Tweed Associates Inc. President Current
Mayalys Board of Directors Current
Gilbert Tweed Associates Inc. Board of Directors Current
Digital Recorders, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Real Estate World Corp Director of Relocation Services Former
Digital Recorders, Inc. Principal Former
Rutgers University Master's Degrees In English Literature Former
Rutgers University Bachelor's Former
Rutgers University And Taught Medieval English Literature Former

Executive News

  • DRI Corporation reports increased Q2 profit

    TradingMarkets - 8/14/09 - View Story

  • RENAISSANCE US GROWTH INVESTMENT TRUST PLC - Newsletter to Shareholders

    SmartBrief - 8/14/09 - View Story

  • DRI Corporation Posts Positive Second Quarter 2009 Results and Increases Earnings Guidance to 22 Cents

    TMC Net - 8/13/09 - View Story

  • DRI Corporation Posts Positive Second Quarter 2009 Results and Increases Earnings Guidance to 22 Cents

    Yahoo! Canada - 8/13/09 - View Story

  • DRI Corporation Posts Positive Second Quarter 2009 Results and Increases Earnings Guidance to 22 Cents

    Reuters - 8/13/09 - View Story

  • DRI Corporation Posts Positive Second Quarter 2009 Results and Increases Earnings Guidance to 22 Cents

    Freshnews.com - 8/13/09 - View Story

  • DRI Corporation Posts Positive Second Quarter 2009 Results and

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  • DRI Corporation Posts Positive Second Quarter 2009 Results and Increases Earnings Guidance to 22 Cents

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     TBUS $1.73 +0.04 (2.37% )
Average Volume 101,594
Shares Outstanding 11.51M
Market Cap 19.9M
Year High 2.84
Year Low 0.7101
Earnings Per Share 0.01
P/E Ratio 173.00
Dividend N/A
Yield N/A
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