Founded 1967
Exponent, Inc.
Menlo Park, California, United States
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: EXPO) multidisciplinary engineering and scientific consulting firm whose core practice is failure and accident investigation, root-cause analysis of structural and product failures, and litigation-support engineering, spanning more than 90 technical disciplines for transportation, energy, consumer-product, and healthcare clients.
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, California, United States
- Founded
- 1967
- Website
- www.exponent.com/
Notable facts
- Founded in April 1967 as Failure Analysis Associates by Stanford professor Alan Stephen Tetelman and colleagues Bernard Ross, Marsh Pound, John Shyne, and Sathya V. Hanagud with $500 in starting capital.
- Became publicly traded on NASDAQ in 1990 under the ticker symbol FAIL, later rebranding to Exponent, Inc. and ticker EXPO in 1998.
- Operates a 147-acre Test & Engineering Center in Phoenix, Arizona, established in 1985 for physical product and structural testing.
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