Board of Governors
The Manufacturing Leadership Council Board of Governors comprises senior manufacturing executives and industry experts at leading manufacturing and research organizations around the world.
Ron Castro
Chair, MLC Board of Governors; Vice President and General Manager, Technology Lifecycle Services, Americas, IBM Corporation
Will Bonifant
Vice Chair, MLC Board of Governors; Group Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, Hormel Foods
Dean Bartles, Ph.D.
CEO & President, MTDG
David R. Brousell
Founder, Vice President and Executive Director, Manufacturing Leadership Council
Jim Davis, Ph.D.
Vice Provost IT (CIO/CTO) Emeritus, UCLA; Special Advisor on Smart Manufacturing, CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute
Dan Dwight
Immediate Past Chair, MLC Board of Governors; President and CEO, Cooley Group; Executive Committee, NAM Board of Directors
John Dyck
Chief Executive Officer, CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute
Regan Gallo
Director of Operations, Coated Abrasives NA, Saint-Gobain North America
Thomas R. Kurfess, Ph.D.
HUSCO Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jay Lee, Ph.D.
Clark Distinguished Professor and Director of the Industrial AI Center, University of Maryland College Park
Tim O’Neal
Global Director for Operational Excellence and Leveraged Services, Dow Inc.
Jill O’Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Computer Systems Department, Farmingdale State College
Billy Spears
Senior Vice President and Chief Product Delivery Officer, Xerox
Rebecca Teeters, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Business Supply Chain and President, 3M Chemical Operations LLC, 3M
Mike Tomasco
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, FUJIFILM Biotechnologies