Turun International helps select companies build their international export business. We’re also on the lookout for new products and services for the patient safety and care home market sectors.

The company is owned by John Brasch, founder and former president of Senior Technologies, INC. (STI). Stanley aquired STI in July 2002, and Brasch retired from the helm in early 2004.

During his tenure at Senior Technologies, Brasch positioned the company as a leader in domestic and international elder care products. STI pioneered restraint-free devices for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia with its patented WanderGuard departure alert system.

The company also developed wireless nurse-call systems, specialty locks for the care industry that work with fire codes, mobility monitors for people at risk of failing, and equipment field support.

This practical experience provides with unique expertise in matters of marketing, manufacturing, product development, international trade and business startups. Though Turun has existed as international distributor of STI products since the 1990s, Brasch is instilling a decidedly entrepreneurial spirit in the company.

“We want to work with others who can benefit from our experience”, Brasch says. “Our goal is to help those with whom we work to be successful. If we can help make a difference for a valued partner, then our own success is assured.”

With a doctorate in business administration from Washington University, Brasch is a former professor of international marketing and management at the University of Nebraska who has been published in the “Harvard Business Review.” 

In 2005, Brasch accepted a three-quarters appointment as associate vice president for technology transfer at the University of Nebraska. He remains active in various university and civic organizations, including chairing the Technology Council of the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development.

He has served as a board member and, for one or more terms, president for the Midwest International Trade Association, The Lincoln and Greater Nebraska Chapter for the Alzheimer’s Association and The Health Care Manufacturers Marketing Council. He has also served on the boards of the Lincoln Senior Center Association, Instrumentation Specialty Company (ISCO), and the University of Nebraska Technology Development Corporation. He has been a member of the board delegates of the American Health Care Association.