Gary W. Weismann
Vice President, Kennametal Inc.
President, Business Groups
Kennametal Inc.
Gary W. Weismann is Vice President, Kennametal Inc. and President, Business Groups. In this role, Mr. Weismann leads the resources globally of both the Advanced Materials Solutions Group and the Metalworking Solutions and Services Group to maximize the company’s profitable growth through delivering innovative products to customers.
Mr. Weismann has demonstrated clear leadership skills across all of his assignments at Kennametal, including the ability to deliver double-digit earnings during a severe global recession. He also brought the diverse global AMSG team together under a common strategy and vision, which significantly improved customer satisfaction, employee engagement and profitability during tough economic times. This was especially critical, as AMSG accounts for over 40 percent of Kennametal’s total revenues.
Mr. Weismann, who has more than 21 years of total service with Kennametal, originally joined the company in 1979. During his tenure, he has assumed assignments of increasing responsibility, including international marketing, corporate planning and development, and mergers and acquisitions. In 1994, Mr. Weismann left Kennametal to join TRINOVA Corporation, where he became leader of the Corporate Technology Organization before joining what is now Actuant Corporation. At Actuant, he became Senior Vice President and General Manager, Engineered Products Division, leaving in 1999 for Marketing Solutions, a private management and development group, where he served as Managing Partner. Mr. Weismann then rejoined Kennametal in 2004 as Vice President and General Manager of the Electronics Products Group. Since then, he has served as Vice President of Energy, Mining and Construction Solutions Group, and most recently, as Vice President and President, AMSG since August 2007.
Mr. Weismann holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance from the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife have four children and reside in Wexford, Pennsylvania.
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