Technology he created has been deployed around the world to track more than 1,000 mammal, fish, bird and insect species to shed light on their habitats, lifespans and migratory patterns
In the early 1980s, Jim Lotimer anticipated that he would lose his job as an electrical engineer with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources due to government cost-cutting.
“The list truly is endless,” said his son Dave Lotimer, now Lotek’s president, CEO and chief legal counsel. In November, 2021, a Lotek device helped American scientists find and destroy an Asian giant hornets’ nest near Blaine, Wash., located by a Vancouver-area border crossing. The insects possess a potentially fatal sting and attack honey bees that pollinate vital food crops.
“Otherwise, this whole [Lotek] business wouldn’t have probably started, because we would probably have hired somebody else,” said Mr. Johnston, who was impressed with how badly he wanted the job. Mr. Anson, who was a whiz kid fresh out of a George Brown College engineering technology program when Mr. Lotimer hired him at the ministry, described his initial role with Lotek as a “wacky science guy” interested in solving technical problems. Mr. Strathearn, now the mayor of Midland, Ont., ensured that the company produced the right products for biologists, and Mr. Lotimer provided the business structure in his capacity as president and CEO.
Lotek’s early customers included the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, which disbanded its wildlife-telemetry lab after Mr. Lotimer left. The company developed a collar that ministry researchers used to track polar bears in James Bay, an inlet at the southern tip of Hudson Bay, between Ontario and Quebec.
Mr. Anson, who helped launch Lotek when he was 25 and spent the rest of his career there before retiring as a vice-president, said Mr. Lotimer had a “tremendous instinct for business” and an unerring sense of how to manage, mentor and listen. And, he succeeded in balancing a diverse bottom-up, experiment-oriented “community” with top-down business constraints that prevented mistakes and financial loss.
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