VMEC is staffed by a diverse team of highly experienced professionals. Our team members have experience in nearly every sector of manufacturing and have directly helped clients with many of today's most critical manufacturing and industrial engineering issues.

Additionally, through VMEC's specialized "Process Strategies Group (VMEC PSG)" business unit formed in early 2006, most VMEC staff also have hands-on experience working on process improvement and strategic issues in the health care, higher education, government and finance sectors.

• Bob Zider, VMEC Director / CEO
• Patricia Giavara, Assistant Director & Growth Services
• Dick Morse, Director Sales & Marketing
• Becky Stygles, CFO & Professional Manufacturing Advisor
• Robynn Albert, Marketing & Training Manager
• Anne Wood, Office Manager
• Paul Demers, Senior Professional Manufacturing Advisor
• Brad Bauman, Process Strategies and Professional Manufacturing Advisor
• Bill Kuhns, Professional Manufacturing & IT Advisor
• Don Paul, Professional Manufacturing Advisor
• Dan Shea, Professional Manufacturing Advisor
• Kenneth Walker, Professional Manufacturing Advisor
• Brian Werneke, Professional Manufacturing Advisor

VMEC Advisory Board

• Dave Blittersdorf - All Earth Renewables, Inc. (formerly Earth Turbines) (Williston, VT), CEO / Founder
• Tommy Harmon - Sonnax Industries (Bellows Falls, VT), CEO / Owner
• Dr. Cy Jordan, MD, MPH - Vermont Medical Society’s Education and Research Foundation (Montpelier, VT), Administrator of Research and Educational Programs
• James LeClair - General Dynamics ATP (Williston, VT), Manager, Manufacturing Resource & Equipment Development
• Scott McCreary - Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Specialty Coffee Business Unit (Waterbury, VT), President
• Lawrence Miller - Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (Montpelier, VT), Secretary
• Joe Perrotto - Country Home Products (Vergennes, VT), President and CEO
• Mike Rainville (Chairman) - Maple Landmark, Inc. (Middlebury, VT), President / Owner
• Brenan Riehl - GW Plastics (Bethel, VT), President and CEO
• Allan Rodgers - Vermont State Colleges (Waterbury, VT), Professor of Business
• Jamie Stewart - Rutland Economic Development Corporation (Rutland, VT), Executive Director
• Ed Townley - Agri-Mark, Inc (Montpelier, VT), Executive Vice President & CFO
• Pat Wheeler - Vermont Composites (Bennington,VT), President
• Steve Wildermuth - IBM (Burlington, VT), Vice President, Semiconductor Manufacturing and Development
• Bob Zider - Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center & Process Strategies Group (Randolph Center, VT), Director / CEO