In 1981, Jere Wright, owner and CEO of TestSwitch, entered the utility industry as the manufacturer of Poweright Products, Inc. She built the company into an international supplier of the patented One-Piece Sliding-Link Terminal Block. (Poweright Products, Inc. is now owned by States Co., a division of Megger.)

Ms. Wright started her new company, TestSwitch, in 1996 to develop a better, safer miniature test switch. Its safety features, designed to address concerns discovered during field research, were patented in 1998. The switch has since qualified under Underwriters Laboratories' Component program in the U.S. and Canada.

TestSwitch is a certified member of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBE).