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ESS Technologies Appoints Dan Schmidt Vice President and General Manager

As the company marks its 30th year in business, Schmidt will lead overall operations with a focus on customer success.

Dan Schmidt, VP and GM of ESS Technologies, a Pacteon Company
Dan Schmidt, VP and GM of ESS Technologies, a Pacteon Company
ESS Technologies

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ESS Technologies, a Pacteon Company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Schmidt to Vice President and General Manager for ESS. Dan will lead overall operations of the company with a focus on delivering to the Pacteon Promise to Make it Right. Dan brings extensive engineering and packaging equipment industry knowledge having spent 25 years in the industry. Prior to joining ESS, Dan served as Director of Engineering for Triangle Packaging Machinery Corp, Manager of Engineering for Buehler, A Division of Illinois Tool Works, and Senior Principal Engineer for Baxter Healthcare. Dan is also a Wisconsin Air National Guard Master Sergeant, retired, having served from 1985 to 2009.

Dan brings a skill set to ESS that includes multicultural team building and team leadership, expertise in electrical controls, product innovation, manufacturing process improvement and business process improvement with a focus on process efficiency. Known for being a “doer,” Dan consistently challenges himself to address the needs across the business from sales order processing, customization of designs to meet customer needs, fabrication and assembly efficiencies, product quality, and growth of the business through new product development.

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