CCAM Appoints New President and CEO
William T. Powers III now heads the organization.
Posted: April 11, 2016
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM; Richmond, VA) announced a new president and chief executive officer. William T. Powers III brings successful global leadership experience in the aerospace sector as a board member, chief executive officer and senior financial executive to focus on the center’s manufacturing research mission and continue to build their membership of commercial, academic and public partners.
Powers has been on the board of directors since 2010 and was involved in the planning for CCAM as early as 2007. “Will has been deeply engaged with the organization from its very start,” stated Helmuth Ludwig, the chairman of the board of directors. “He brings both proven leadership experience and deep knowledge of the organization and its member universities and companies. This will be vital to continue to grow the reputation as the prime advanced manufacturing institute.”
Powers succeeds Joseph Moody, the president and executive director who retired in March. Moody was appointed in 2014. “Joe joined CCAM at a critical time,” noted Ludwig. “Under his leadership the organization more than doubled its research spend and increased the membership by almost 50 percent. The board thanks him for his leadership and accomplishments.”
Prior to joining the organization, Powers was the chief financial officer for Rolls-Royce’s North American operations, a $3 billion business with 9,000 employees. He also served as a member of their North America holdings board and government security and audit committees. Previous roles with them included positions based in London, serving as the chief executive of capital limited and as the director of mergers and acquisitions.
The CCAM industry and government consortium now numbers 29 members, including Aerojet Rocketdyne, Airbus, Alcoa, Chromalloy, Newport News Shipbuilding, Oerlikon Metco, Rolls-Royce, Sandvik Coromant, SGS Tool Company, Siemens, Blaser Swisslube, Canon Virginia Inc., EOS, Hermle Machine Co., Mitutoyo, Paradigm Precision, RTI International Metals, Inc., Buehler, Cool Clean Technologies, GF Machining Solutions, Mechdyne, National Instruments, Spatial Integrated Systems (SIS), and the NASA Langley Research Center.
Academic partners are the Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Tech.
CCAM is located in a 62,000 sq ft state-of-the-art research facility in Prince George County, VA, that has computational and engineering research labs, high bay production space and commercial scale equipment, and specialized equipment and tooling for research in surface engineering, manufacturing systems, additive manufacturing, machining technologies, composite materials processing, and welding and joining.
They provide production-ready advanced manufacturing solutions to member companies across the globe. Members guide the research, leveraging talent and resources within and at Virginia’s top universities through a collaborative model that enables them to pool research and development efforts to increase efficiencies. Results can then be applied directly to the factory floor, turning ideas into profit faster and more affordably than ever before.
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