Alex McEachern is well known for his cheerful, thought-provoking speeches, and he regularly speaks at national and international conferences on electric power quality.
He is the president of Power Standards Lab in California, the founder of BMI, the former president of both BMI and Electrotek, and the author of everything from the Electric Power Measurements chapter of the Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering to the industry-standard Handbook of Power Signatures.
Active in drafting and approving international power standards, Alex is the chairman of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) TC77A Working Group 9, which sets the standard for power quality instruments. He also participates in the drafting of the voltage dip immunity standards, IEC 61000-4-11 and IEC 61000-4-34. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, former Chairman of IEEE 1159.1, a co-author of IEEE 519 and IEEE 1459, and a voting member of the IEEE Standards Coordination Committee on Power Quality.
Among all his accomplishments, McEachern is proudest of the fact that companies that he has created have been responsible for over 2,400 man-years of employment.
He is a reasonably inventive fellow, with 29 U.S. patents awarded so far.