MHI Leadership Appointments

MHI recently announced their 2027 Board of Governors and Roundtable Advisory Committee. The Board of Governors consists of the Officers and Board Governors of MHI plus the Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel of the corporation. The Board of Governors serves as the Board of Directors for MHI.

MHI provides educational, business development, networking and solution sourcing opportunities.

MHI would like to thank the following leaders, whose terms will finish at the end of 2026, for their dedicated service to MHI:

Board of Governors

• Rick Fox, President/CEO, FOX IV Technologies

Roundtable Advisory Committee

• Bill Schneider, Jr., President, SISSCO Material Handling Equipment
• Scott Summerville, President & CEO, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
• Kevin Reader, Strategic Consultant, KNAPP North America

MHI would also like to welcome the following new leaders for 2027:

Roundtable Advisory Committee

• Martin Boyd, Chief Marketing Officer, Big Joe Forklifts
• Josef Mentzer, CEO, KNAPP North America
• Nathan Storey, Managing Director, Warehouse Equipment, Storage Solutions

2027 MHI Officers

• MHI Chair, Brian Reh, CEO, Gorbel Inc.
• MHI President, Eddie Murphy, Owner/President, SpaceGuard Products, Inc.
• MHI Vice President, Chris Becker, President, G.W. Becker, Inc.

2027 MHI Board of Governors

• James Cabot, President & CEO, Southworth International Group, Inc.
• Annette Danek-Akey, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Barnes & Noble
• Bryan Jensen, Chair & Executive Vice President, St. Onge Company Inc.
• Jason Looman, President, North America, Scanreco
• Jason Minghini, Senior Vice President Supply Chain Solutions, Kenco Logistics Service
• Brian C. Neuwirth, President, UNEX Manufacturing, Inc.
• Kevin O’Neill, CEO, Steele Solutions, Inc.
• Crystal Parrott, Global President of Robotics and Automation, UPS
• John Paxton, CEO, MHI
• Brett Wood, President & CEO, Toyota Material Handling, North America
• Arthur H. Stroyd, Jr., MHI General Counsel, Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd LLC

2027 MHI Roundtable Advisory Committee

• Micaela Bomhack, President & CEO, Rite-Hite
• Martin Boyd, Chief Marketing Officer – Big Joe Forklifts
• Bruce Cole, Senior Vice President Industrial Sales, East Penn Manufacturing
• Brian Devine, President/CEO, Ignite Industrial Professionals
• Steve Diebold, Chairman, WireCrafters, LLC
• Nancy Fateen, President, Seizmic, Inc.
• Ron Jubis, President – North America, SICK
• Brian Keiger, Chief Commercial Officer, Conveyco Technologies
• John Krummell, President & CEO, Advance Storage Products
• Josef Mentzer, CEO, KNAPP North America
• Randy Neilson, CEO, CubiScan
• Brian Pfannes, President, Steel King Industries, Inc.
• Steve Pickfield, Owner, SP4 Consulting
• Dan Quinn, Emeritus, Strategic Advisor, PSI Engineering
• Will Rehrig, CEO, Rehrig Pacific Company
• Volker Schmitz, President & CEO, Schmalz, Inc
• Nathan Storey, Managing Director, Warehouse Equipment, Storage Solutions
• Arch Thomason, CEO, Sunland Logistics Solutions