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Thirty years of shaping ourselves around other people's problems.
About Sabre
Small on purpose
Sabre started in 1993 with three Hull engineering graduates who spent more time fixing the student union's lighting rig than they did in lectures. Thirty-three years on, the same three people still run it.
We have stayed deliberately small. Fifteen people, no account layer, and the person who designs your board is the person you talk to about it.
Meet the team
Mike Jones
Director
Three decades of schematics behind him, and he still reads every one properly.
John Smith
Director
Co-founded Sabre in 1993 and has still not found a problem he would rather leave alone.
David Brown
Director
Always the one asking what happens when the battery runs flat.
Want to join us?
We are always interested in engineers who would rather own a whole product than a corner of someone else's. But we should warn you, we don not hire often as our people stay for the long term.
Company history
1993
Sabre begins
Chris Ford, Tim Mitchell and Dave White, three electronic engineering graduates from the University of Hull, better known for fixing the student union's sound and lighting rig than for turning up to lectures.
1995
The Abstract years start
Abstract were the leading UK maker of club lighting and needed electronics for a new range. Our design went into more than 50,000 products worldwide. Thirty years on they are still a client.
500,000+
IoT devices in the field running our electronics and firmware
30 years
Our longest client relationship. Still going.
