Armen Sahagen received his Masters Degree in Solid State Physics from the University of Southern California. In 1954 Armen helped establish Pacific Semiconductors which later became TRW Semiconductors. After this he was hired by Hughes Aircraft Company as Engineering Manager for the silicon wafer fab. In 1962 he became President of Western Semiconductors. After this, Standard Rectifier and Powerec, Inc. were formed by Armen. In 1995, Armen Sahagen started his SOS transducer line with the help of Sensotron. After Armen licensed his transducer patents to Sensonetics and Minebea while staying with Sensonetics to sustain and improve upon these patents. Mr. Sahagen is the innovator and original patent holder of silicon-on-sapphire pressure transducers and temperature transducers, pressure transmitters and pressure sensors. Armen went on to develop another patent while at Sensonetics for a silicon-on-sapphire optical composition probe for a complete spectral analysis of gases and liquids.

Gary attended college at the University of California at Irvine. While attending high school and college, Gary Sahagen worked alongside Dr. Armen Sahagen for many years. Gary helped with the Silicon On Sapphire transducer and composition probe patents by doing research work, design work, photomask fabrication and the working prototypes. Quality Management Systems were part of Gary's contributions to the Sensonetics team. Gary Sahagen's professional career includes engineering manager at Hughes Aircraft in the same division his father worked when he too was an engineering manager years ago. Gary also held positions at General Motors, Raytheon and MicroSemi until rejoining Sensonetics in 2003.