Stephen Mance

Steve Mance is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of increasingly senior experience and a strong background in several industry segments, including mergers and acquisitions, Six Sigma and product development.

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Steve retired in April 2020 from MEC, where he held the role of chief operating officer. Prior to MEC’s purchase of Defiance Metal Products (DMP) in December 2018, Steve served as DMP’s chief executive officer (CEO) since October of 2011. As CEO, he was responsible for overseeing the sales and marketing, operations, finance, human resources, engineering and purchasing functions of the company. DMP had over 1,100 employees working at its four plants across the United States.

Previously, Steve was general manager of the charging business at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems in Elyria, Ohio. Here, he had full P&L responsibility for over $230 million in annual sales across multiple facilities. He has also held roles at Hendrickson International as vice president/general manager of the components group and Allied Signal as vice president of operations and Six Sigma, both of which supply parts predominantly to the heavy-truck and construction markets. Steve has achieved outstanding success in driving key operational, productivity and financial improvements throughout his career.

Steve has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, and has taken graduate courses at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.

In addition to serving as a chairman on Red Dot’s board of directors, he joined the board of directors of Barriere Corporation in mid-2017, which is one of the largest asphalt and road construction companies in the state of Louisiana. In 2016, he was elected chairman for the Heavy Duty Business Forum, which he served honorably in 2017.