Metalcasting Industry Roadmap
Jiten Shah President, Product Development & Analysis, LLC, Naperville, IL
info@pda-llc.com (630) 505-8801
Mr. Shah has over 25 years of experience with casting digital design, performance validation, rigging design and manufacturing simulation for various alloys and processes, reverse engineering and rapid prototyping; additionally worked on several contract research projects towards new alloys, processes, virtual simulation, and agile manufacturing development of castings in the last 20 years for various agencies, including DARPA, NASA, AMC, USCAR / USAMP and ONR.
Alfred Spada
Director of Marketing, Communications & Public Relations, American Foundry Society, Schaumburg, IL
ASPADA@afsinc.org (847) 824-0181 ext 281
Alfred Spada is Editor / Publisher of Modern Casting and Metal Casting Design & Purchasing magazines and AFS Vice President Business Development. Spada is a graduate of Northwestern Univ. and has an MBA from the Univ. of Colorado.
Spada entered the metalcasting industry in 1997 as an editor for Modern Casting. His previous experience was in journalism and communications as an editor for Pro Football Weekly magazine. Spada has spent his 17 plus years in metalcasting visiting metalcasting facilities across the globe and writing about the industry from both a technical and management perspective.
In addition to his role with AFS and its magazines, Spada serves as Publisher for the International Journal of Metalcasting and has edited two books on metalcasting²the Iron Casting Engineering Handbook and Metal Casting Design & Purchasing.
Spada regularly speaks to both metalcasters and casting buyers about the present and future of the global metalcasting industry, casting applications and casting design. Spada has a wife, Beth, and three daughters, Alyssa, Abigail and Audrey.
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