Distributors' group elects officers.The American Machine Tool Distributors' Assn. named Joseph A. Braun, CMTSE, as its chairman for the upcoming year. Braun, president of Braun Machinery, Inc. (Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , Mich.), is a founding member of the association's Certified See certification. Machine Tool Sales Engineer program. He started his career with his family-owned company in 1990 as a sales engineer and in 1996 was promoted to VP. He became president in 1998. Joe Braun has been active in AMTDA AMTDA American Machine Tool Distributors Association since 1995 and has participated in its Leadership Forum program since its inception. The Washington-area trade group, at its annual meeting held this year in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif., also named Joseph Van J. Crotts, CMTSE, to its chairman-elect post. Since 2000 Van Crotts has served as president of Crotts & Saunders Saun´ders n. 1. See Sandress. Engineering, Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.), and he has been active in AMTDA since 1987, especially in the statistics area. His father, Marcus Crotts, served as AMTDA chairman 1982-83. Steve M. Wherry, who heads Cardinal Machinery L.L.C. (Memphis, Tenn.) will serve the year as AMTDA treasurer. Wherry started in machine tools at E.C. Blackstone Co. and joined Cardinal as president in 1998; he's been active in the association since 1976. Ron Mager, president of Machinery Systems, Inc. (Schaumburg, Ill.), is the group's new secretary, having been on the board since 2007 and serving as co-chairman of its joint statistics committee. New directors of the distributors' association are Ted Redling, president of Triad Machine Tool Co.; William Farris, president of Kansas Oklahoma Machine Tools, Inc.; Gary Lowery low·er·y also lour·y adj. Overcast; threatening. , VP at Maruka USA Inc.; and Greg Buck, president of Productivity Inc. Redling started in machine tools at K.E. Erickson Machinery in 1972, opened the office for Maruka Machinery in Denver in 1984, and started at Triad in 1984. Farris has been with Kansas Oklahoma Machine Tools since 1970 and was a founding member of AMTDA's certification program. Lowery has been in machine tools since 1972 and started with Maruka in 1980. Buck, who holds an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration and a law degree, joined Productivity Inc. in 1981 and became president in 2001. Amer. Machine Tool Distributors' Assn., Rockville, Md. 301-738-1200. |
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