Jeremy St. Pierre

COO Deco Manufacturing 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.