Mate appoints marketing VP

October 10, 2006

Mate Precision Tooling, Anoka, Minn., has appointed Joseph Schneider as vice president of marketing.

Most recently Schneider was Mate's product engineering manager. He was the company's e-business manager before that. Schneider will apply his 10 years of experience in manufacturing and product design to his new position to further improve the company's customer-oriented approach to the market, the company said.

Schneider holds an M.B.A. degree in marketing and strategic management from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and a B.S.M.E. degree from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology. He is trained and experienced in lean manufacturing and has served as a Minnesota Council for Quality evaluator.