Wanamaker Join PDQ as VP of Marketing

He is based at the company's Leola, Pa. headquarters

  • May 15, 2017

Kim Wanamaker has joined PDQ Manufacturing as Vice President - Marketing. A resident of Maple Glen in Montgomery County, Pa., he is based at the company's Leola, Pa. headquarters.

Wanamaker is a highly experienced marketing and sales professional, combining creative thinking and entrepreneurial drive with management skills to drive gains in revenue, market share and profit performance. In his new post, he is responsible for all marketing and related activities.

He has more than 25 years of experience in a wide variety of industrial marketing sales arenas. He has worked in various leadership roles in distributor buying/marketing groups serving the electrical, industrial, plumbing, PVF and HVAC industries, engineered steel structures, industrial forklift manufacture, and electrical equipment/systems.

He was a long-term employee at General Electric, where he rose to the position of National Distributor Manager for the company's industrial systems unit. He was trained in Manager Development, Advanced Marketing and Product Planning at the GE Management Development Institute.

"We're greatly pleased to bring Kim aboard in one of our key management slots," said PDQ President Bill Tell. "We're confident that his depth of training and experience, coupled with proven performance in challenging marketing situations, will produce strong results for PDQ."

Wanamaker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Engineering & Management from Clarkson University, Potsdam, N.Y., and a Master's in Business Administration from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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