Kitagawa NorthTech Hires National Sales Manager

Kitagawa NorthTech, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL), a leader in workholding and custom engineered solutions, is pleased to welcome David Hawking to the newly created post of national sales and marketing manager for North America. He will be responsible for driving new sales revenue for Kitagawa NorthTech’s innovative family of workholding and custom engineered solutions.

Hawking will also be responsible for business development, sales team leadership and management of the field sales, marketing and customer service teams. He comes to the company with over 25 years of industrial sales experience. Most recently in his former position at TydenBrooks security products as North American sales manager, he was responsible for sales and account management for many large customers of the company throughout North America.

Hawking also has extensive sales and market development experience with several industries that are important for his new role, including aerospace, automotive, machine tool, metalworking, transportation, oil and gas, power generation, petrochemical, utilities and other general industrial markets.

Kenn Burns, the vice president for Kitagawa NorthTech, said, “We are looking forward to David joining our sales management team and bringing his wealth of strategic sales and business development expertise and knowledge to Kitagawa NorthTech. We are confident in his appointment as our national sales and marketing manager, he will be successful in generating new sales growth for our standard workholding and custom engineered solutions and in providing added value to our North American customers.”

Hawking will be operating out of the company’s corporate headquarters located in Schaumburg, IL. He is a local resident and native of Chicago and holds a bachelor-of-arts degree in English from Saint Norbert College in De Pere, WI, as well as numerous professional sales management affiliations and achievements.

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