Powering our Communities

SAT Companies is a Family of Highly Specialized, Total Systems Electrical Contractors with vast experience and uncompromising results.

Our clients include hospitals, major diversified infrastructure, industrial projects, large-scale agricultural installations, multi-purpose sports and recreational complexes.

SAT maintains a robust pipeline of future projects and project pursuits.

Since 1976, our brands have been delivering full-service end-to-end capabilities.

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With a workforce of over 200 FTE employees and more than 100 journeymen, linesmen and highly skilled craft tradesmen, SAT has in-house technical capabilities to design, build, and maintain complex and diverse electrical systems and structures in the industrial, commercial, agricultural, institutional and utility sectors.

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SAT ranks as one of the top 25 electrical contractors in Canada by revenue, and is the largest employer of electrical contractors in Southwestern Ontario.

OUR SERVICES

Substations
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Agriculture & Vertical Farming
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Control Systems
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emergency Restorations & Standby
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contruction led engineering projects
transmission & distribution
Telecommunications
Underground Cabling
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design build
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high voltage
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Decarbonization & Electrification
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renewables
services

our brands

Our People First and Foremost

Overseeing an outstanding group of company employees, John Smith and Albert Testa, the founders and owners of SAT Companies, proudly support the exceptional workforce and high-quality brands in the SAT Family.
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President

Al J. Testa

Albert (Al) Testa has spent his career working for large institutional credit grantors including TD Bank, AT&T, Monstanto and AMD.  Al has recommended, overseen, and managed numerous portfolio companies over his 30-year career. He is a result driven strategic leader with experience in mid-to-large-market M&A, capital funding, corporate finance, program and growth development, and client acquisitions for many large international corporates. He has a proven track record developing and managing multi-million-dollar programs in North America and Asia. Al specializes in strategic valuation strategies and developing unique value-propositions for both buyer and seller. He has expertise in improving team performance, securing customer loyalty and forging valuable, sustainable relationships with internal and external partners.

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400 Park Ave W., Chatham ON N7M 1W9
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CEO

John W. Smith

John Smith is a career people manager having built and sold numerous businesses with great success.  He is a Chatham local, but by Canadian standards, an entrepreneurial trailblazer, highly respected, strategic and wise. John Smith is the CEO of Canquest Communications in Chatham. John has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 40 years and is considered a telecom pioneer best-known for his role in deregulating and mass-marketing low-cost long distance and tariff-free calling in Canada.

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(519) 351-0484
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400 Park Ave W., Chatham ON N7M 1W9