David Terkosky Appointed to Group Vice President of EST

We are pleased to announce that David Terkosky has been appointed a Group Vice President for Ellison Surface Technologies. David will be leading a newly formed organization that integrates marketing, sales and engineering. David states that, “Our new organization will be designed to noticeably improve our interaction with our customers by streamlining the RFQ, quote, development and approval process…. Our goal is to cut the time from RFQ to production parts in half by 2008.”

David has been a member of the Ellison Group for just over three years. He started with Ellison Surface Technologies in Sales and New Business Development. He was then promoted to Group Vice President responsible for the management of Accelerated Technologies (ATI), EST’s sister company. ATI is an industry leader in the rapid prototyping, rapid tooling and rapid parts field. David led ATI to double digit sales and profit growth two years in a row. Customer surveys revealed customer satisfaction also increased significantly with David at the helm of ATI. David notes “Customer satisfaction will be my #1 priority. Rapid process development and approvals are the lifeblood of our company, and we believe the key to success is to align resources to better deliver on the needs and expectations of our customers. Communication, responsiveness and continuous improvement will be critical to achieving our goal to improve customer satisfaction and cut time for development and approvals in half.” David will continue to oversee ATI while bringing that same level of customer focus to this key area of our EST business.

David brings a wealth of engineering, business and leadership experience. He started his career at Procter & Gamble after graduating with an engineering degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1979. After graduation he served in manufacturing roles and participating in brand team development efforts for P&G. After leaving P&G, David was involved in a venture backed startup company which successfully went public, where he developed significant sales and marketing experience achieving a Vice President position in 1989. Since then, he has held senior level positions in other start-up and growth companies. Prior to joining the Ellison Group in 2004, David served as VP of Sales and Marketing at Cohesia Corp., a Cincinnati based software company that developed an AS9100 compliant first article, characteristic accountability application for major aerospace OEMs. Over the next 3 months, David will be working to meet with our customers to gather input on our partnership, and to discuss how EST might better serve its customers with particular focus on the development and approval process. David looks forward to meeting with our valued customers. David can be reached directly at DTerkosky@ellisongroup.com