Thank You to PCB Piezotronics, Inc. – Our Presenting Sponsor of the 2019 Night of Hope Gala

PCB Piezotronics, Inc. (PCB) is a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of piezoelectric sensors and related sensing technologies. Founded in 1967, PCB was privately owned by primarily the Lally family, from 1967 through 2016, at which point PCB was purchased by MTS Systems Corporation, a global leader in Test & Simulation Equipment and Sensors.  PCB designs and manufactures sensors used by design engineers and predictive maintenance professionals to test and measure vibration, pressure, force, acoustics, load, shock and other physical phenomena that require measurement.

To support PCB’s desire to make the world a better place, PCB started our “PCB Gives Back” program where we share our time, our talents and our treasury to make a significant positive impact on people in need and the wonderful nonprofit organizations that deliver services to those people in need.  Although the great majority of our efforts are directed at individuals and organizations in the Buffalo, NY area, close to Depew, NY where our corporate headquarters are located, we occasionally select an out of area organization to support.  Because our long time CEO John Lally, and his wife Laura, are being honored at the 2019 Tampa Breakthrough T1D Night of Hope Gala, and because we feel that we owe John an enormous amount of gratitude for his 30 years of dedicated service to our great company, inclusive of his 20 year run as our CEO, we are thrilled to support the Tampa chapter of Breakthrough T1D at this year’s Gala.

Juvenile diabetes impacts so many people we care about, both within our PCB and MTS family, and in our community, including the only remaining Lally employed at PCB, John’s daughter Caitlin.   We have personally witnessed Caitlin courageously deal with this disease since she was a young child and we also know  that there are thousands of other Caitlin’s out there dealing with this disease on a daily basis.  Therefore, we want to support the efforts of all those working tirelessly to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes and to help raise awareness and encourage others to support Breakthrough T1D and its mission.

John Lally worked tirelessly to lead PCB from a small, mostly US based $10 million business when he took over as CEO, to what was a $175 million global leader in sensors when he retired several years ago.  A former starting offensive lineman at Syracuse University, John brought a blue collar, hardworking, hard driving and fierce competitive mentality to our sensor industry.  We have no doubt that John and Laura will now bring that same type of hard driving and competitive mentality to raising as much awareness and as many dollars for the Tampa chapter of Breakthrough T1D.  You are very fortunate to have John and Laura Lally in your corner and as long as they are in your corner, so is PCB Piezotronics, MTS Sensors and MTS Systems.   Best wishes for a record breaking Gala.