Lincoln Electric Names New President of Business Development
John T. Bronstrup now leads business development for their Americas welding segment.
Posted: July 12, 2016
In his new role, he will lead the growth strategy to advance sales in key product portfolios, including education, welding accessories and alloy-based consumables. He will drive investment activities and work cross-functionally with regional country presidents to ensure the company capitalizes on increasing demand for these solutions. He will report to George Blankenship, the executive vice president and the president of Americas welding.
The Lincoln Electric Company (Cleveland, OH), a subsidiary of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., has promoted John T. Bronstrup to the newly created position of president of business development for the Americas welding segment, effective immediately. He previously served as the vice president of finance, North America.
In this new role, Bronstrup will lead the development and implementation of the Americas Welding growth strategy to advance sales in key product portfolios, including education, welding accessories and alloy-based consumables. He will lead a team that will drive investment activities and work cross-functionally with regional country presidents to ensure the company capitalizes on increasing demand for these solutions. He will report to George Blankenship, the executive vice president and the president of Americas welding.
“John’s financial leadership and track record of ensuring the success of our commercial and operational initiatives has been instrumental in driving our ‘2020 vision and strategy’ results,” stated Blankenship. “His experience and focus will help us scale these innovative, value-added solutions in the Americas and extend our brand as the ‘welding experts’ among new and existing customers and channels.”
Bronstrup has served at the company for nearly 20 years in a number of management roles, including the vice president of finance, North America; the director of financial reporting; the group controller for Harris Products Group; and has held positions in internal audit, treasury and IT. He has also served as the chief accounting officer and the corporate controller of Hawk Corporation and started his career as an auditor for Arthur Andersen. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Cleveland State University, a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from Miami University and is a certified public accountant.
Lincoln Electric is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting equipment and has a leading global position in the brazing and soldering alloys market. Headquartered in Cleveland, they have 48 manufacturing locations, including operations and joint ventures in 19 countries and a worldwide network of distributors and sales offices covering more than 160 countries.
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