George Kunkel is the Founder of Spira and has been a design engineer for over 50 years. He is well known as a worldwide expert in the field of EMI/RFI research and EMC System design for the last 45 years.  In 1978 he was a design engineer and founded Spira to address a critical need in the industry that wasn’t being fulfilled. He designed developed and patented the Spira Shield gasket and a whole family of exceptional EMI/RFI shielding gaskets and filters…
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Michael Kunkel started working at Spira in 1984 as a Production Assembly person. After decades of working in many different positions, he now focuses on sharing his technical expertise on special projects. Michael earned a B.S. degree in Business Management at the University of Phoenix.

Wendy Kunkel has been working with Spira part-time since 2000, and is currently Human Resources and Project Manager, and a member of Spira’s Board of Directors. She earned a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Cal Poly SLO, an M.A. in Psychology, and is certified in corporate training and human resources.  Wendy enjoys supporting Spira’s management team, employees, sales reps and customers on a wide variety of different projects. She is also very skilled with computers and graphic design, and helps support Spira’s MRP system, website, marketing and advertising.