SALES TEAM
Each Sales Manager represents all of the plants and forging, heat-treating, and machining capabilities of the full IMT Forge Group.
Lori Brown
Sales Manager
Working from Champaign, Illinois, with over 6 years of forge sales experience, Lori serves as the link between IMT Forge Groups’ various disciplines and customers. This includes a focus on advancing a global understanding of the steel forging industry for the benefit of customers.
Market segments: Aero (Civil and Defense), Military and Defense (US), Auto Racing industry
Syl Demers
Sales Manager
For over 25 years in the forging industry, based out of Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada Syl has interacted with customers throughout North America to develop and maintain valuable partnerships resulting in favorable customer satisfaction. As a Certified Profession Purchaser from PMAC (Purchasing Management Association of Canada) Syl is an expert in understanding and solving the many challenges each customer faces resulting and a steady supply of quality custom closed die and upset forgings
Market segments: Oil field equipment, Oil & Gas, Exploration, Transmission, Refining and Distribution, Offshore (Canada), Military and Defense (Canada), Heavy Truck and trailer
Mike Sonnenberg
Sales Manager
Mike has spent most of his career in the forging industry having joined PC Forge shortly after graduation as an outside sales representative and then joining IMT Forge in 2003 as Sales Manager. Mike graduated from McMaster University with a degree in Business.
Market segment: Heavy trucks, trailers, trucking, truck suspension system
Bud Kinney
VP Innovation & Development
Bud has extensive experience in forging operations, engineering, and sales. A degreed mechanical engineer with over 20 years of sales and marketing experience, Bud’s responsibilities include leading innovation and related business development for the IMT Forge companies working to strengthen the position of the IMT Forge in the marketplace.