Alexander Zoller

As President of ZOLLER Inc. since 2004, Alexander Zoller has been a driving force in the family owned, global technology company, and was the visionary to execute the expansion plan for the new North American Headquarters and Industry 4.0 Tech Center, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  ZOLLER has positioned itself and its customers to adapt to the manufacturing reality of the future, where hardware, software and Automation work seamlessly to create the highest efficiency in part production. Alexander earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart in 2001, and took on the role of Managing Director of E.Zoller GmbH with managerial responsibility for ZOLLER Inc. in 2004.

Simon Pierro

Simon Pierro is the iPad Magician, a digital magician without parallel. Performing his magic tricks worldwide from Hong Kong to Hollywood, he takes audiences to places they’ve never been, using a technological marvel they know and love — an iPad. Simon’s spellbinding live performances, along with 100 million views of his online videos, have launched him into global prominence, with critics calling his unique brand of iPad magic “unforgettable,” “mind-blowing” and “unique.”

Scott Volk

Scott Volk is the Executive Vice President and COO of MetalQuest Unlimited, an advanced CNC-based manufacturing company located in Nebraska and Idaho.

Serving large manufacturing firms throughout the United States, MetalQuest is a recognized manufacturing leader and the recipient of several manufacturing awards. A competitive advantage for MetalQuest is its company-wide use of smart manufacturing and automation, which allows the business to be cost-competitive in the global manufacturing market. MetalQuest recently started a new company division, MetalQuest Solutions, to offer customers tools and training to optimize facilities, processes, robotics, CAD/CAM, PDM, and collaboration.

Scott oversees the management and operations of the company, leads process and systems development, manages customer and supplier relationships, and has a key role in defining business strategy. Scott will present “Partnering With ZOLLER to Improve Production Efficiency” on May 11th @ 10 AM

Joseph Forsyth

Joseph is the Director of Advanced Manufacturing for Intech Athens Alabama. and has been with this organization for over 23 years. He works directly with the programming, prestage and prototype teams and has had the opportunity to perform hands on tasks and learn almost every task you can find within an old school and modern machine shop. He has a wonderful wife that supports his every step and together they are raising 4 children.

Kevin Townsley

Harvey Performance Company is a leading manufacturer and provider of high-quality cutting tools and solutions for the industrial sector. With a commitment to innovation and precision, the company offers a wide range of products designed to meet the unique demands of diverse industries. Harvey Performance Company's customer-centric approach, combined with its dedication to continuous improvement, enables it to deliver reliable and efficient solutions that help customers optimize their machining processes and achieve outstanding results.

Kevin Townsley, Quality Control Manager at Harvey Performance, has been with the organization for ten years, working closely with engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, and technical sales.  He has lead the integration of Zoller vision equipment across all HPC site facilities, helping bridge knowledge and process gaps from design development to customer applications.  Kevin has also worked extensively with Zoller’s Genius platform, merging his passion for programming and cutting tools to generate in-depth automated inspection programs at scale.

Jeremy St. Pierre

Principal Manufacturing Engineer @GKN Aerospace and Owner of Benchmark Manufacturing Solutions LLC

Over 15 years’ experience in manufacturing including industrial, aerospace, and automotive. I started toolmaking at 13 years old and started my own business in 2021 with the goal of helping companies with short batch production, engineering services and industry 4.0 solutions. I hold two patents for tooling development and most recently developed a $4MUSD tooling and R&D division for GKN Aerospace, which has been able to bring cutting tool manufacturing in house servicing all sites across all of NorthAmerica.

Anuar El Jeitani

At 25 years old, Anuar El Jeitani has an impressive and admirable trajectory. He started practicing taekwondo at the age of 3 and became a Mexican national champion and international medalist.

At a young age, Anuar has achieved resounding success in various sectors and markets in the field of business. He is the founder of Grupo Antani, and in less than a decade, he has transformed the group into a conglomerate comprising several leading companies in different industries and markets.

In the industrial field, Anuar is the co-founder of SACSA ANTANI and a shareholder of SACSA TOOLS, both companies are dedicated to the manufacturing of highly specialized cutting tools for the automotive and aerospace industry in Mexico and abroad. They have world-class clients such as Volkswagen and General Motors and have been internationally recognized for meeting the highest standards of quality and service.

In the financial sector, he has successfully placed capital of over $60 million USD through disruptive and innovative business models.

In the real estate field, through different companies that are part of Grupo Antani, they offer a variety of products and services: management, project administration, purchase, investment, and land development. Grupo Antani has developed hundreds of homes and placed capital of over $500 million USD through different investment vehicles offered in this area.

Anuar is also the founder of the Antani Foundation, which supports low-income boys and girls so that they become well-rounded individuals through high-performance sports. The foundation has supported national team members who have been able to compete internationally, representing Mexico.

Rick Melvin

Rick Melvin is currently the President and co-owner of Powell Tool Supply, Inc. an industrial distributor of premier cutting tool products for CNC machining, in business since 1948. Powell has always been a family-owned business located in South Bend, IN serving Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio, with more areas coming in the near future.

Rick has a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) degree from University of Illinois – Chicago business school and has a history of 38 years in the Industrial Distribution business, with 36 of them in management and executive positions.
Powell had its first computer system in the early 1960’s and we began developing VMI programs in the early 1980’s to offer our professional inventory management and metalworking expertise to work together in developing the best solution for the job to meet the customers’ needs.

Powell has  partnered with ZOLLER to promote their TMS Tool Management Software for VMI solutions for our customers. We have a team that is thoroughly versed in the analysis and setup of VMI & TMS solutions to provide best practices and current technology to our partner customers. The creation of a single source ZOLLER TMS database is at the core of this process.

Powell’s manufacturing and job shop facility customers service a wide array of industries, automotive, medical, aerospace, heavy equipment, agriculture, etc. and have benefited over many years from Powell’s expertise, knowledge and understanding of metalworking to achieve mutual success.

Rick is very involved in the VMI TMS Tool Management Software programs being developed and enjoys working with potential customers to put a process in place to help them not just achieve their goals, but exceed what they thought was possible.

Mike Urella

Mike Urella is the senior CNC tooling specialist at Primetals Technologies LLC based at their Sutton, MA location. Mike has been a Primetals team member since 2019 and has been in his current role for over two years. His current duties include the selecting and procuring new tooling equipment, building out new CNC tooling assemblies, managing the ZOLLER TMS database as well as supporting manufacturing operations on the shop floor. His work on the ZOLLER TMS is used not only by tool setters and machinists to properly and efficiently build tooling assemblies, but by programmers as well. Building up ZOLLER TMS and managing it well has saved countless hours that programmers formerly spent physically looking through the 2400 built tool assemblies as well as the extensive inventory of tooling components available to create the ideal tool for a particular application.

Noah Ackerman

Noah Ackerman is a CNC tooling specialist at Primetals Technologies LLC based at their Sutton, MA location.  Noah Has been a Primetals team member since 2021 and has been in his current role since he joined the company.  His current duties include the building of new CNC tooling assemblies to their TMS build specifications, using the ZOLLER »venturion« presetters to set tooling packages for machinists, sharpening dull tooling, and supporting day-to-day shop operations by solving any tooling problems as they arise.  He also has cultivated a thorough knowledge of CNC machine operation along with the assembly of complex gear boxes throughout his time at Primetals.

Dietmar Moll

Dietmar Moll is the Director of Business Development at  ZOLLER Inc. and holds a Masters of Engineering from the Cooperative State University of Stuttgart.  Moll has had a long career at ZOLLER with a progression of many international roles in sales, and general management for India and Thailand and the United States. Overall, he has more than 18 years of  experience in the field of efficient manufacturing with a focus on machine tool applications and helping companies understand their process capabilities using tool presetting, measuring & inspection, tool management and Automation solutions. His experience in working with companies and partners across a variety of manufacturing segments, including aerospace, oil and gas, automotive, and mining equipment ensures that ZOLLER is in alignment in solving real life part production challenges, as smart manufacturing, analytics and Industry 4.0 give rise to a new generation of possibilities in  integrated technologies and advanced manufacturing practices.

Cedric Hasenfratz

Cedric Hasenfratz is the National Sales and Partnership Manager for the ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions Portfolio and is passionate about bringing efficiency solutions to Manufacturing. Prior to his position at ZOLLER, he was the US Account Manager for HEXAGON MFG Intelligence (CAM & Simulation) software sales segment of the business. He has deep knowledge and experience in digital tool management and process optimization for modern manufacturing. 

Felix Kanbach

Felix Kanbach is the National Service Manager for ZOLLER Solutions in North America and has a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Science in Heilbronn, Germany. As a former application engineer, he works closely with the ZOLLER customer base and manages the support team to ensure excellent service and aftersales support are available at all times. In his former role as ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions Manager, he was responsible for supporting the implementation, roll out and training of ZOLLER Tool Management software solutions.

Werner Lueken

Werner Lueken is the Director of Tool Inspection Solutions at ZOLLER Inc and he received an engineering degree in industrial design from the University of Applied Science in Kiel, Germany in 1997.  Werner has been with ZOLLER Inc for 19 intense years, where he has worked in many functions but always with a focus on supporting customers in their tool inspection needs. He is passionate about helping cutting tool manufacturers and end users solve their tool geometry challenges and to give reassurance about tool quality, and is recognized as an expert in this field both in the USA and globally.

Matt Brothers

Matt Brother is the Industry 4.0 Technology Center Manager at ZOLLER Inc. With over 20 years of experience in special form cutting tool inspection and manufacturing, he bring a unique set to ZOLLER, in particular his specialization  in cutting tool inspection process development and troubleshooting. In the past, Matt has worked with both Starcutter and Northern Tool and has been with ZOLLER since 2017.

Markus Lewandrowski

Markus Lewandrowski is a Project Manager for Zoller North America. After learning the trade of Tool & Die maker followed by a degree in Engineering, he moved to North America in 2002 to manage projects, including R&D, product design, structural and forming studies using FEM, etc. His next career step was to manage a custom CNC shop that supplied aerospace parts and automotive tooling for 15 years. First being a customer to Zoller by investing in ZOLLER technologies such as presetter, ZOLLER TMS software, and ZOLLER TMS Hardware in 2011, streamlining operations, he easily implemented the quality system AS9100.

He gained extensive knowledge in CNC controller, 5 Axis machining,  multiple CAM & simulation/verification software.

Since 2019 he has been managing the implementation of ZOLLER projects to get the optimum results for our customers.

Rita Conroy-Martin

Rita Conroy-Martin is the Director of Marketing and CX at ZOLLER Inc., and is a multilingual with over 25 years of international professional business experience in Sales & Business Development, Marketing, and Purchasing, primarily in the manufacturing sector. She is passionate about sales and marketing alignment in the midst of the dramatic transformation that is rewriting the rules of how companies large and small engage with prospects and customers. In her current role at ZOLLER Inc. , a third generation, family owned, global technology company with a mission to make manufacturing more efficient, she blends both traditional and emerging marketing strategies to educate, engage, onboard and promote customers and prospects to new levels of efficiency with ZOLLER Solutions.

She is a graduate of the University of Limerick, Ireland with a Bachelor’s in Business and German, and a Masters in Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.  

Clayton Springer

Clayton Springer is the Video Production Specialist for Marketing at ZOLLER INC. He graduated from Ferris State University with a Bachelor’s in Television Digital Media Production. Clayton Springer joined the ZOLLER team this past June and brings with him a wide range of experiences and skillset. He has been professionally working as a video production specialist for the past six years. He has experience working in Sports Broadcast and Live Television news. Over the last three years Clayton has taken a focus on creating video content for Corporate Marketing. In that time, he has produced video content for social media platforms, cable TV commercials, promotional materials, product video content, and directing Live Stream events.

Magdalena Wegrzy

Magdalena Wegrzyn is the Content Marketing and PR Specialist at ZOLLER Inc. She has about 15 years of experience as a reporter, editor and digital strategist at daily newspapers in Colorado, New Mexico and Florida. Prior to joining ZOLLER, she was the Planning Editor for the USA TODAY Network's West Florida Region. She is passionate about creating, editing and promoting quality content that educates the public. She holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Northern Colorado.

Patricia Guinnup

Patricia Guinnup is the Human Resources Coordinator /Service Planning at ZOLLER Tecnologías and is originally from Chihuahua, Mexico. She moved to Michigan in 2010. Patricia has been  at ZOLLER for 5 years. In her role as Service Planner, she enjoys talking to clients, coordinating service, and making sure that all of  the customers have an excellent service. Patricia is an enthusiastic person looking forward to new challenges. In her free time, she enjoys Yoga, gardening, and cooking.

Dallas Sindlinger

Dallas Sindlinger is the Executive Assistant for Alexander Zoller, President of ZOLLER Inc. She has worked at ZOLLER for 8 years in a variety of roles including aftersales, customer service and training.  She is a certified trainer with the German American Chamber of Commerce. In her free time, she enjoys fishing, camping with her family, and tending to her garden.