Stiles Equipment introduced Barry Kellar as its new president. Kellar will oversee all North American operations of the HOMAG Group, which incorporates greater than 650 workers throughout Stiles Equipment, HOMAG Canada, and HOMAG Equipment North America.

Dr. Daniel Schmitt, CEO of the HOMAG Group, acknowledged: “I’m very excited to welcome Barry Kellar as the following president of Stiles Equipment. Barry brings a wealth of information and experience in manufacturing to the place, which I’m positive will complement an already distinctive staff at Stiles. By means of Barry’s management and dedication to buyer centricity, I’m satisfied that Stiles will proceed to thrive as a market chief in our business.”

After graduating from the US Navy Academy at West Level, New York, with a level in Mechanical Engineering, Kellar started his profession in 1986 with the U.S. Military. He joined GE Plastics in 1996 after working at Hercules Aerospace and Lincoln Composites, the place he held numerous administration positions. In 2005, Kellar took on the function of vp and basic supervisor of the filtration division at Freudenberg Nonwovens. In 2009, he moved to Freudenberg Filtration Applied sciences, as president and CEO for North America. His final function was integrating two acquisitions and forming a brand new division as world vp of residential filters.

“I’m very excited to affix Stiles Equipment and assist their continued progress by way of offering our prospects with best-in-class gross sales and repair,” says Kellar. “The inspiration of mother or father HOMAG as a world-renowned producer of options for the woodworking business, coupled with our customer-centric method to the market, confirms to me we have now the proper capabilities to ship the worth our prospects anticipate.”