Our Team

Meet Our Board

Our Board works hard to uphold the values of the CTDI culture and continue to provide best-in-class service to our customers. Through the years, our leaders helped us earn a reputation as a world-class, reliable, and valued organization with a genuine employee-focused approach to business.

Jerry Parsons

Chairman

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Jerry Parsons

Chairman

Jerry Parsons founded CTDI in 1975 with his father, Donald and brother Richard, in the family garage in West Chester, PA. What began as a circuit board repair depot quickly grew into an industry-leading service provider and strategic partner in global
communications.

As Chairman, Jerry remains actively involved in the company, providing ongoing leadership and guidance. His ability to identify emerging business opportunities and design innovative strategies has guided CTDI through a dynamic, rapidly evolving industry, with a commitment to technical innovation and service excellence. During his tenure as CEO, Jerry positioned CTDI as the premier provider of test engineering, repair, and logistics services for the telecom, cable, and consumer device sectors.

Under Jerry’s leadership, CTDI has developed the most innovative, automated, and robotic test systems in the industry, supporting technologies such as consumer smart devices, audio devices, set-top-boxes, wireless gateways and 4G & 5G wireless infrastructure equipment. Today, CTDI operates over 100 global locations and employs more than 20,000 talented employees worldwide.

Jerry’s vision, together with the dedication of CTDI’s employees, has been central to the company’s remarkable growth and long-term success. Along with his brother Leo and his sons, Brian and Mike, Jerry continues to focus on preserving CTDI’s 50-year family business legacy. The company is now managed by 12 third generation (“3G”) Parsons family members.

Jerry graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Jerry's Professional and Community Honors

CEO of the Year (Chester County Economic Development Council); Building Industry Coalition Award and Hall of Fame Award (The Chester County Chamber); Harold Martin Business Leadership Award (The Exton Region Chamber of Commerce); Outstanding Alumni Award and Alumni Fellow (Penn State University); St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award; Barry Award from the American Catholic Historical Society; and the Papal Honor of Sir Gregory the Great.

Leo D. Parsons

Board Member, Retired President & CEO

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Leo D. Parsons

Board Member, Retired President & CEO

Leo D. Parsons is the Retired President & CEO of CTDI. He celebrated a distinguished career with CTDI from 1982, following his graduation from Penn State University, until his retirement at the end of 2025. From 2020 to 2025, Leo led CTDI’s continued global growth through strategic investments in technology, automation, organizational development, and the company’s customer-first, KPI-driven approach. He concluded his 43-year tenure by overseeing the transition from second-generation to third-generation Parsons family leadership. As CEO, Leo consistently emphasized that CTDI’s employees are its greatest asset, a belief reinforced during his tour of 50 global locations in his final six months as CEO. He remains committed to promoting CTDI’s people-first culture, ensuring employees feel valued and view the company not just as a workplace, but as a family.

Since joining CTDI in 1982, Leo played a key role in expanding the company’s engineering, repair, and logistics capabilities. In the 1980s, he led the growth of CTDI’s Branch operations from two locations to 15 across the United States, England, and South Korea, a network that has since expanded to more than 100 sites worldwide. He also guided CTDI’s entry into wireless infrastructure and handset repair, supporting major wireless carriers through multiple technology transitions from AMPS to 5G. His efforts positioned CTDI’s IT organization as a strategic competitive advantage.

Before becoming CEO, Leo was President & COO, where he advanced CTDI’s focus on customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and global expansion. Working closely with the Leadership Team, he strengthened CTDI’s operating philosophy of innovation through collaboration, technology investment, and ongoing development of automation and IT systems.

He continues to support the company as a member of the CTDI Board of Directors and CTDI Europe’s Supervisory Board. He is also VP of the Foundation for Catholic Education.

Recognition and Service

Leo is Past-Chairman of the Bishop Shanahan High School (BSHS) Board of Directors and recipient of the BSHS Gold Medal Award (2005). In 2020, he was honored by the National Catholic Educational Association with the Lead. Learn. Proclaim. Award for his contributions to Catholic education.

Brian Parsons

President & CEO

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Brian Parsons

President & CEO

Brian Parsons is the President & CEO of CTDI, where he leads the company’s global strategy and operations across its worldwide network. In partnership with CTDI’s ownership and Board, Brian drives long-term growth, advances operational excellence, and strengthens the company’s commitment to delivering world-class service to customers around the globe.

As a third-generation Parsons family owner-operator, Brian was mentored by his father, Jerry (CTDI co-founder, Chairman, and longtime CEO), and his uncle, Leo, whom Brian succeeded as CEO. He had the privilege of working with his grandfather and CTDI’s founder, “Mr. P.,” whose career came full circle as Brian’s was just beginning. These formative experiences grounded Brian in CTDI’s values as well as his own leadership philosophy. Today, Brian is proud to work alongside eleven fellow third-generation (“3G”) Parsons carrying the family business legacy forward.

Prior to becoming President & CEO, Brian served as COO from 2019-2025, where he was instrumental in scaling CTDI’s global operations and overall business growth, and the maturation of the Corporate Administration and Finance & Accounting functions. His leadership during the global pandemic positioned the company for stability and success during a time of rapid change.

Brian joined the company in 2001 as an engineer and quickly became involved in key mergers and acquisitions that resulted in the launch of the Products Division and his promotion to Director in 2004. As his responsibilities grew, Brian played a central role in the company’s product acquisitions that fueled strong year-over-year growth. In 2013, he was promoted to VP, Products & Supply Divisions, where he continued to champion a strong, customer-centric culture across the company.

In 2016, he led the transformative $100 million acquisition of European company Regenersis, an effort that doubled CTDI’s presence in the region and marked CTDI’s entry into the Mobility market. Under his leadership, the Mobility Division experienced rapid global expansion, secured partnerships with industry-leading customers, and advanced CTDI’s engineering capabilities, including the modernization of technology platforms and integration of robotics functionality.

Brian earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. A strong advocate for continuing education, he also holds certificates in Wireless Communications (Georgia Tech), Finance and Accounting (Wharton), Risk Management (Harvard Business School), HR Talent Acquisition (Cornell), and Mergers & Acquisitions (Columbia).

Brian has been a member of the CTDI Board of Directors since 2008 and joined the CTDI Europe Supervisory Board in 2018.