Roy Verstraete
Corporate Director
- Role
- Member Board of Directors at Reko International Group Inc
- Location
- Naples, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Roy Verstraete
Corporate director, senior executive and internationalist with 30+ years of leadership and achievements including 20 plus years serving on Boards of Directors for public, private, and start-up companies. This was built on an outstanding record of building results-driven organizations and high performance leadership teams across a variety of organizational and country cultures. Full fluency in English and Spanish, plus intermediate French Current - Corporate Board roles, strategy and implementation, leadership, executive mentoring, succession planningCorporate Board ExperienceFeb 2022 to present- Reko International Group Inc - Board Director, Compensation Committee ChairWindsor, ON public Company focused on factory robotic automation and machining of large critical metal partsMay 2013 to present- Midwest Specialties Inc.(FlexArm)- Advisory Board Member Ohio based specialty manufacturer of industrial metal productsJan 2011 to Oct, 2023- Wall Colmonoy Corp - Board DirectorDetroit, MI based, privately held, high performance metal alloy coatings processor and specialty aerospace engine components manufacturer - located in US, UK and FranceJun 2014 to Oct 2023- Wall Colmonoy Ltd- Board DirectorWales, UK based high performance metal alloy coatings processor and precision bronze castings producerSept 2012 to 2019- Sober Steering Inc- Board Director - Audit Chair A start-up company with technology to prevent drunk driving - in Kitchener, ONSept 2013 to 2017 - MET - Marsulex Environmental Technologies, Inc- Board DirectorNew Jersey based EPC company for flue gas pollution control systems 2004 – 2008- Granby Industries Income Fund – Board Director, Audit Committee Toronto Stock Exchange listed manufacturer of residential heating oil tanksAutomotive Parts Manufacturing Association, Toronto, ON - Board Member 2010 to 2020, Board Chair 2017 to 2019Private Directors Association, Chicago, IL -Board Member 2016 to 2022, Board Chair 2018.Business Experience2001 to 2015 - President & CEO, Anchor Danly1983 to Velcro Companies - President of Velcro Canada, Managing Director of Velcro Europe and Group VP of Velcro Group Corp
Experience
Member Board of Directors
Feb 2022 — Present · Windsor, ON, CA
Education
Schulich School of Business - York University
MBA, Marketing and Finance
1970 — 1973
Harvard Business School
Making Corporate Boards More Effective - Certificate
2012 — 2012
McMaster University
Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
1966 — 1970
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Jit
- Automotive
- Budgets
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Process Engineering
- Operational Excellence
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Leadership
- New Business Development
- Industrial Engineering
- Board of Director Experience
- 5s
- Team Building
- Management
- Toyota Production System
- Manufacturing
- Machine Tools
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Machining
- Sales
- Strategic Planning
- Kaizen
- Purchasing
- Value Stream Mapping
- Process Improvement
- Negotiation
- Product Development
- Spanish
- Operations Management
- Mergers
- Start-Ups
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Six Sigma
- Business Development
- Forecasting
- Continuous Improvement
- International Business
- Lean Manufacturing
- Steel
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