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Administrative:
Franz J. Frei , President
Glenn Perodeau - Vice President / General Manager
Christina Frei - Marketing / IT Associate
Nancy Pagan - Senior Accountant
Ernest Turner - Shipping / Receiving

Sales:
William R. McGaughey - Vice President of Engineering
Robert Thron - Vice President of Sales, Semiconductor Division

Service and Engineering:
Cyndie Gerlach - Customer Service Rep. - Parts Dept.
Matthew Morin - Service Engineer
Shuji Oki - Director of Engineering, Semiconductor

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Franz Frei, President and Chairman

Franz Frei is the founder and president of GTI, so there is little at the company he is NOT responsible for. But Franz focuses on a few key areas. First, he constantly fosters strong relations with existing and future manufacturers and is often making important visits to insure the smooth operation of their business with GTI. Second, Franz looks for new and complimentary ventures for GTI to guarantee the continuous growth of the company and diversify its already strong business base. One example of this is GTI’s sister company, GTI Spindle, based in New Hampshire, which Franz co-founded. Internally at GTI, he watches over the health of the business and helps employees bring out their best every day. Franz most enjoys meeting people, motivating people, selling, and organizing, tasks he gets to do every day at GTI.

Glenn Perodeau, Vice President / General Manager

Glenn Perodeau joined GTI in October of 2003 as its Vice President of Finance. Glenn was promoted to the position of General Manager/ Executive Vice President – Finance on December 1, 2004. Glenn joined GTI after working for 12 years within the machine tool industry as CFO and Executive Vice President- Finance of INDEX Corporation. As General Manager of GTI , Glenn oversees the sales and technical departments of GTI while maintaining his control over the finance and administrative areas of GTI. Glenn has been able to utilize his financial background in the machine tool industry to strengthen GTI’s internal processes to sustain steady sales growth while maintaining a constant overhead thus allowing for stability for GTI’s manufacturers and employees. Glenn holds a BS degree in Accounting from the University of Connecticut and was a licensed Certified Public Accountant prior to entering the private sector. Glenn has over 15 years of experience in the machine tool industry and is an active member in both the AMT and AMTDA organizations.

Christina Frei, IT/Marketing Associate

Christina Frei focuses on all things computer and marketing-related, including Microsoft CRM, the GTI website, IT, and trade shows. During her stay with GTI, she has initiated and managed a whole new version of the website, she planned a very fun Christmas party, and she has learned Crystal Reporting to make it easier for the sales team to work with CRM. Today, she particularly enjoys figuring out new ways to automate the CRM process, and working with several different IT/software/web professionals to help GTI excel.

Nancy Pagan, Senior Accountant

Nancy Pagan is responsible for all things accounting-related at GTI. Her typical day includes managing the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll. Nancy also takes care of all financial reporting to upper management and any required financial analysis. In the last few years, Nancy is particularly proud of playing a major role in implementing a new, complex accounting system. She has also fully automated intricate reports that used to take days. Nancy most enjoys the combination of working independently and being part of the GTI team, confirming that everyone at GTI is willing to help on a moment’s notice.

Ernest Turner, Inventory Control / Shipping and Receiving

Ernest Turner takes care of GTI’s sizeable parts inventory, receives packages, and of course, ships things all over the country and world, key to GTI’s parts business in particular. Managing a parts inventory requires attention to detail, constant monitoring, careful tracking, and Ernest takes care of all of this, regularly conferring with GTI’s inventory/finance software. Ernest works closely with the engineers when a machine is being prepared for shipping, making sure they are clean and properly disassembled for careful packaging. Ernest most enjoys the diversity of his job, since he seems to have new challenges every day. He also confirms that GTI’s products speak for themselves ; he’s proud to work for a company with such high quality offerings.

Bill McGaughey, VP of Engineering

Bill McGaughey joined GTI 6 months after its founding and has been instrumental in supporting its growth during the intervening 26+ years. He has held a variety of sales and technical positions during that time. As Vice President, Engineering, he currently heads up sales for GTI’s non-toolgrinding metalworking products and also manages the customer support staff of Service Technicians and Applications Engineers. Bill holds a BS degree in Technology from Purdue University as well as an MBA degree from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He has spent over 30 years in the machine tool industry after beginning his career in the manufacturing sector.

Robert Thron , VP of Sales, Semiconductor Division

In his role as VP of Sales, Bob Thron serves as chief ambassador to all major players in GTI’s semiconductor business. Not only does he meet regularly with potential and current customers to insure their needs are met, but he also has ongoing contact with GTI’s worldwide principals and with a vast local distributor network. Bob also insures GTI has a top quality product selection, acquiring new lines of business. Through all this work, Bob has officially grown the semiconductor division to 80% of GTI’s total sales. When asked what he most enjoys about working at GTI, Bob says he most savors helping customers achieve their manufacturing goals with GTI’s top-notch semiconductor products.

Cyndie Gerlach, Customer Service Representative

GTI provides parts to any customer who has purchased a machine that GTI supports. Since GTI has sold thousands of machines all over the US and the world, this task can be daunting. Cyndie Gerlach has been up to the task for over 10 years already. Not only has she been in charge of all the customer service needed, but also maintaining all the inventory needed and the purchasing required. She makes sure the tens of thousands of parts are stocked and tracked, and she’s proud to say that during her stay at GTI, she has improved the inventory stocking system to keep up with customer requests and oversaw a substantial upgrade and data migration to GTI’s current inventory / billing software. What she most enjoys is working with all kinds of customers and learning about new machines as they come out.

Matthew Morin, Service Engineer

As a service engineer, Matt Morin spends his time building customer relationships, bringing home repeat business, and acting as an impartial liaison between customers and GTI management. He is proud to report that he is the lead wiresaw service engineer, and has a very respectable knowledge base on the Takatori wiresaw machines. Almost every day, Matt is out in the field, helping customers remember they have a service team they can rely on at GTI. Since Matt travels the globe, he admits that one of his favorite aspects of his job is flying home.

Shuji Oki , Director of Engineering

Shuji Oki ’s main responsibilities include technical / sales support for the semiconductor and wiresaw department, process research and development, and maintain the relationship between GTI and Takatori, a manufacturer in Japan. During his tenure with GTI, Shuji has maintained solid relationships between customers, GTI, and Takatori, his fluent grasp of Japanese and English and his engineering background beneficial to all who deal with him. He has also developed a thin wafer application. When asked what he most relishes, Shuji gets a gleam in his eye when faced with a new challenging application to conquer.