The Manufacturer & Business Association (MBA) recently announced the appointment of its 2016-2017 Board of Governors.
Donald Hester, president and chief executive officer of MAJR Products Corporation, has been named Board chairman. MAJR Products, incorporated in 1991, is an internationally recognized manufacturer of Electromagnetic Interference / Radio Frequency Interference (EMI/RFI) Shielding Products based in Saegertown.
Hester started as sales manager at MAJR in 1993 and purchased the company along with investors in 1996. The Pittsburgh native and Vietnam veteran earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and attended Gannon University’s MBA program.
Hester is joined on the MBA’s Executive Committee by Vice Chairman Harry Eighmy, chief operating officer of American Turned Products; Treasurer Phil Katen, president of Plastikos; Secretary Mark Rose, director of Aerospace Operations & Supply Chain at LORD Corporation; Immediate Past Chairman Bill Hilbert Jr., president of Reddog Industries; and Nonmanufacturing Representative Jeff Plyler, president of Plyler Enterprises.
New Board members who will serve three-year terms include:
Mike Mankosa, executive vice president -Global Technology – Eriez Magnetics, a world authority in separation technologies, headquartered in Erie. Mankosa is responsible for guiding Eriez’ product technology focus, leading the collaboration of Eriez’ technical expertise across global enterprises and directing the development of technology solutions to enhance Eriez’ strategic goals worldwide.
Mankosa joined Eriez in 1997, beginning his career as the company’s technical director in the Erie-Division Research and Development Lab. He earned his doctorate in mining and minerals engineering from Virginia Tech.
Steve Jones, president of Ron Jones Hardwood Sales, Inc., a family owned and operated hardwood lumber business established in 1983 with sales office headquartered in Union City and lumber dry kiln facility in Franklin. The company specializes in the sales of premium Northern Appalachian kiln-dried hardwood grade lumber to customers in North America, Europe and Asia.
Jones is also director of Export Sales and has more than 27 years of experience in the hardwood lumber industry. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business marketing from The Pennsylvania State University and is a graduate of the National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) Inspection School. Jones currently serves as a board of director for the NHLA.
Scott Bonnell, owner of Bonnell’s Collision Center, a family owned and operated auto collision center. Bonnell, a veteran sprint car driver and longtime auto enthusiast, has spent the past 30 years building his shop’s reputation, and investing and fine-tuning his operation into one of northwest Pennsylvania’s largest and fastest-growing auto business empires.
Today, Bonnell’s Auto Group includes four major divisions — Collision Center, Auto Sales, Auto Glass, and Rod Shop — with locations based in both Erie and Fairview Township.
Other members of the Board of Governors include: Andrew Foyle, president of H&H Machined Products Co.; Mike Weber, president and chief executive officer of Smith Provision Company; C. Bruce Kern II, president of Curtze Food Service; and Greg Sbrocco, general manager, Global Supply Chain – Services, GE Transportation.
