CALENDAR
2012
MARCH
6-7
VMA Valve Basics
Seminar & Exhibits
Houston
www.vma.org
8-9
VMA Technical Seminar
& Exhibits
Houston
www.vma.org
APRIL
18–20
VMA Manufacturers
Workshop & Tour*
Houston
www.vma.org
26-27
VMA Finance Leaders
Seminar*
Arlington, VA
www.vma.org
30-MAY 3
OTC 2012
Houston
www.otcnet.org
MAY
22-25
NPRA Reliability &
Maintenance Conference
and Exhibition
San Antonio, TX
www.npra.org
JUNE
10-14
AWWA’s ACE12
Dallas
www.awwa.org/ACE12
18-22
ACHEMA
Frankfurt, Germany
www.achema.de
AUGUST
9-10
VMA Market Outlook
Workshop*
Chicago
www.vma.org
*These meetings are open only to
VMA/VRC members. For more
information, go to VMA.org >
Events.
VMA NEWS
Bruce Broxterman of Richards
Industries Elected VMA Chairman
The VMA board elected a new slate of officers
and welcomed four members to its ranks at
the 2011 VMA/VRC Annual Meeting held
October 13 to 15 in Orlando, FL. Heading up
the board this year as chairman will be Bruce
Broxterman, president of Richards Industries.
Broxterman took over from Max Mitchell,
chief operating officer and executive vice
president of Crane Co. (see “Conversation
with …” page 60 for more information on
Broxterman.)
Other leaders for 2012 include Vice Chairman Mark Cordell, president, Distributed
Valves, Cameron Valves & Measurement, and
Program Chairman Ivan Velan, executive vice
president of Velan Valve Corporation. Mitchell
became immediate past chairman.
In addition, Ed Holtgraver, CEO of QTRCO,
Inc., was approved for another three-year
term on the board and interim board member
Sheri Roberts-Updike, president of Tyco
Valves & Control, L.P. and vice president,
Global Oil & Gas, Tyco Flow Control, was
approved for a full, three-year term. New
members to the board include: Robert Kemple,
Jr., executive vice president of sales & marketing–Americas for ASCO Numatics, and James
Gray, vice president, sales, GE
Energy–Masoneilan and Consolidated.
Metso’s Douglas Dunn Receives
Man of the Year Award
Douglas Dunn, vice
president, Finance
& Business Controls, Metso
Automation USA
Inc. walked to the
podium among
much cheering as
he accepted VMA’s
top award: Man of
the Year.
Dunn was honored for his long-term commitment
to the association—he has been an active member of VMA
for 25 years, serving on the board since 2007
and on a multitude of committees including
Doug Dunn (left) receives
the Man of the Year Award
from Max Mitchell,
outgoing VMA chairman.
the program committees for both the Annual
Meeting and the Leadership Forum. He has
used his expertise with the financial sector of
the valve industry to help VMA make the
Finance Leaders Seminar a continual success.
Arie Bregman, vice president and general
manager, DFT Inc., and Tony Pecora, vice
president–Sales, AUMA Actuators, Inc., were
presented service awards. Bregman has been
instrumental on both the Technical and Education & Training Committees while Pecora has
served on a number of committees over the
years, most recently as a member of the Nominating and Program Committees.
A-T Controls is
VMA’s Newest Member
A-T Controls of Cincinnati, OH is VMA’s first
new member for 2012. The company is a
result of a merger in 1997 of Acutrol, Inc. and
Triac Controls, Inc. A-T Controls manufac-
tures ball valves as well as actuators and con-
trols. The company’s President/CEO Brian
Wright will serve as the official VMA repre-
sentative. Learn more about the company at
www.a-tcontrols.com.
Online Career Center
Now Open on VMA.org
In recognition of the need for ways to find
top-notch talent in the valve industry, VMA
has created the Career Center on its website.
The center allows a company to post job
listings, then allows visitors to search for
openings and subscribe to new posting
notifications.
The pricing for the site is based on how
long a job should be listed.
VMA’s Career Center should help industry
companies attract the skilled workers needed
in the technical fields where valves and actuators are used.
Companies with a job should go to “The
VMA Store” on vma.org, then click on
Purchase a Job Listing.
They then choose from either a 30-, 60- or
90-day listing ($50, $75 or $100), and once
the listing is purchased, fill out a form on the
Career Center. Professionals searching for a
job can visit the center and conduct a search
based on position, category, education requirements, experience and other keywords. For
more information, contact Dianne Ekblad at
dekblad@vma.org. VM
