Okuma Merges Sales and Marketing with New Appointments
Okuma America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) is uniting their sales and marketing functions to enhance their ability to respond to customer needs in the marketplace. As CNC machine technology becomes more sophisticated and customizable to each user’s unique requirements, full-circle communications must be in place to connect issues and trends in the shop with the latest in machine tool advancements. To implement this unification process, the company announces the following positions:
Tim Thiessen has been appointed to vice president of sales and marketing for the company. He has been their vice president of sales since 2011 after joining Okuma in 1991 as an applications engineer, and has held positions of progressive responsibility in his 25+ years with the company, including roles in sales and engineering. He earned his BS in Industrial Management and Technology from Berea College (Berea, KY).
Annette Carroll joins the company as their new director of marketing. She brings 20+ years of experience in industrial marketing to the company and has held various marketing director and manager roles at Sealed Air Corporation, tesa tape, inc., and Siemens. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and select MBA certificates in Marketing Strategy and Digital Marketing from Cornell University and Rutgers University, respectively.
