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Bio

Upon graduating from Georgia Tech with a BS in Business John started as a sales trainee in the Ingersoll-Rand sales training class of 1991. After progressing rapidly through several expanded sales roles John entered management in January 1998. By the time John left Ingersoll-Rand in 2003 he was Director of Sales for NA for the Assembly Solutions businesses. From 2003 till 2010 John was with Sullair Corporation, a United Technologies Company. He started as Director of Sales for industrial products and after a successful 3 years was asked to lead the Customer Care business as the VP GM, which was a United Technologies executive level role. Coming out of the 2008/09 recession John was one of 4 executives asked to work on a complete business reorganization. Following this period, he led all customer facing functions and helped stabilize the business back into a growth pattern. Wanting to expand his international experiences and build this part of his knowledge John left Sullair in mid-2010 for IDEX as the Global VP - Sales & Marketing for the Energy and Fuels group. After 2.5 years in this role, he was asked to run one of their standalone businesses as the VP GM. Coming off 2 very successful growth years John was asked to change to the IDEX Band-It business as the VP Heritage Business with the task of stabilizing this business and getting it back into a growth mode. Within 12 months a major reorganization was in place from both inside the company and at the
channel level. In 2017 John accepted the role of Vice-President & General Manager of the Rhinestahl AMG business. With full P&L responsibility he reorganized the business to maximize operational excellence and drive the order book to the largest backlog in the company’s history while setting a strategy for long term growth.

Overall, John is an accomplished executive – general manager, senior sales leadership and marketing, with 25 years field sales and management / leadership experience dealing with multiple channels to market models. He has been successful at developing and executing operating, business, sales and marketing strategies that drive results in key metrics of safety, OTD, market share, revenue and profitability. Proven performer in multiple levels and functions to include general management, sales, marketing and customer facing service. Recognized for having strong team and people development skills with a track record of providing double digit growth in revenue and EBIT/PBIT. John is an assertive, results oriented and innovative problem solver with the ability to implement and meet timelines while bringing a 360° business view.

In his off-time John enjoys golf and camping with his wife as well as traveling together.

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