Craig L. SanPietro was the founder of Craden Peripherals which manufactured specialized computer equipment ranging from automated parking systems to dedicated printers for banking applications, where Craden printers became the national standard.
On his journey to becoming a founder and CEO, Craig also designed a replacement disk drive controller for IBM, returned to his alma mater, Caltech, to build an off-road VW, spent three months driving the Pan-American Highway to Panama, designed a 1,000 chip spacecraft telemetry system for NASA, and contributed to the programming for the Lunar Landing Module.
After retiring, Craig worked as a volunteer to restore several nearby 19th century water mills to working condition and took great joy introducing young people to the mechanical workings of those mills, as well as the fresh cornmeal that was their end-product.
He attended the California Institute of Technology for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering, graduating near the top of his class.
