Visit MODERN CASTING’s Late-Breaking Metalcasting News at
www.moderncasting.com Personals Burnham Foundry, Zanesville, Ohio,
has inducted Susan Stotts and Gary Coo- per into its 25-year club for employees that have been with the company for 25 years or more, according to the Zanesville Times Recorder.
Roberts Sinto Corp., Lansing, Mich.,
has announced the addition of Joe O’Brien and Brady Marshall as product sales managers.
Jenniffer Deckard was named presi-
dent of Fairmount Minerals Ltd., Char- don, Ohio.
Sean Dickinson has been hired as
a laboratory specialist for Stork Tech- nimet, New Berlin, Wis., a division of Stork Materials Technology.
MC Obituaries Larry Shade, Ann Arbor, Mich., died Joe O’Brien Industry Faces
Neenah Enterprises Names Thomas Riordan President and CEO Neenah Enterprises Inc., Neenah, Wis., has completed
its nearly half-year search for a new chief executive officer and president, naming Thomas Riordan to the positions effective Feb. 1. Neenah began the search
for a new chief executive last summer, when it in- stalled Rich Caruso, a man- aging director with Huron Consulting Group, Chicago, as interim CEO during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy re- organization. Riordan was elected by Neenah’s board of directors on Jan. 5. At the time, he had been president and chief operating officer of Terex Corp., Westport, Conn., a construction equipment manufacturer, since January 2007. Prior to joining Terex, Riordan spent 11 years with SPX Corporation, Charlotte, N.C., a capital goods manu- facturer, in a number of busi- ness leadership roles, includ- ing executive vice president and chief operating officer.
According to a statement issued by Neenah, Riordan
has more than 30 years of experience in various industrial markets. He has an engineering degree from Northwestern Univ., Chicago, and a master’s degree in management from the Krannert School at Purdue Univ., Hammond, Ind. Riordan and his wife will be relocating to the Neenah area. “Tom Riordan is a world
class manager who will very capably architect and lead Neenah’s future,” said Ted Lodge, chairman of Neenah’s board of direc- tors. “We would also like to thank [Caruso] for his many contributions to transition- ing Neenah while the CEO search was underway.” Neenah Enterprises is
Thomas Riordan has ended a search for a CEO that began last summer. MODERN CASTING / February 2011
the indirect parent hold- ing company of Neenah Foundry Co., which manu- factures iron castings and steel forgings for the heavy municipal market and selected segments of the industrial markets.
MC 19 Brady Marshall
June 1, 2010. He was 68. Shade was an engineer for General Motors at its Defiance, Ohio, metalcasting facility from 1962-2004. He was a longtime member of the American Foundry Society (AFS).
Eugene Schneider, Germantown,
Wis., died Oct. 2, 2010. He was 94. Schneider was employed at Grede Foundries, Milwaukee, as plant man- ager and was a member of AFS.
James Murtagh, Toledo, Ohio, died
Oct. 4, 2010. He was 86. Murtagh graduated from the Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., with a busi- ness degree in 1948 and began work at his father’s diecasting company in Adrian, Mich. He later became president of Gerity-Schultz Corp., Toledo, where he worked until his retirement in 2005. Murtagh was ac- tive in the business community and held several patents on manufactur- ing equipment.
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