Joe Bolton Email & Phone Number

Livonia, Michigan, US

Seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience serving the injection molding and tooling industry. Accomplished business executive with expertise in an entrepreneurial startup atmosphere driving profitable growth in challenging, competitive, and volatile customer markets. Global leader conceptualizing ideas, seizing opportunities, building.

• Directed the acquisition and integration of Convex Mold, Inc. (tooling business) in 1995.
• Successfully consolidated North American operations from four-plant to two-plant division on time and within budget.
• Managed strategic goals, maintained strong margins, and led consultative selling environment while maintaining P&L responsibility for 2 divisions.
• Accountable for manufacturing related metrics in both the injection molding and tool making divisions.
• Recognized divisional domestic sales growth by reorganizing the sales structure to align with key customer markets.
• Aggressively drove quality processes and procedures leading to TS 16949 certification.

• Directed engineer and sales processes, including 30 new product development programs for automotive applications, while integrating products utilizing vertical market group strategies.
• Supervised multidiscipline sales teams, including both direct and representative based sales strategy, whose focus on OEM and tier type customers, both North American and New Domestic.

• Managed development and validation testing of new highly engineered automotive electrical and functional plastic components that were designed for the customer base.
• Engaged an automotive consulting firm to determine driver product development efforts for future highly engineered products both in North America and overseas.
• Directed internal testing laboratory primarily focused on DV and PV testing of all new development programs that were slated for customer market use.

• Developed a representative selling base.
• Added direct sales in New Domestic market.

• Developed and enhanced relationships with 5 critical OEM clients.
• Supported the consultative selling strategy to critical customers.

• Managed the design from concept to final product launch.
• Maintained responsibility for all product testing.

• Championed strategic sales initiatives to improve market share and diversification with Tier I’s and II’s New Domestics.
• Controlled all aspects of working capital including the Working Capital team and meeting goals for A/R, Finished Goods Inventory, Material Inventory, A/P, and Cash Gap days.
• Implemented individualized incentive plans for all employees in order to drive divisional efficiencies.
• Created cost estimating process resulting in improved accuracy and timely results.
• Supervised overseas personnel in facilitating and completing orders.
• Pursued constant ethical and non-discriminatory hiring and evaluation methods.

Master Of Business Administration With Focus In Competitive Strategy And Negotiations

Bachelor Of Science

Manager Leadership Program (6-Month Company-Sponsored Program)