Hurco awards distributors; new appointments announced

Indianapolis, Indiana – Hurco Companies Inc. held its annual awards banquet in Indianapolis to acknowledge the team of distributors and agents throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America who represent Hurco. The national meeting of Hurco distributor partners was held at the Colts Sports Complex this year to kick off the new partnership Hurco has established with the local NFL football team. Banquet attendees had the chance to snap a picture with the Super Bowl XLI Trophy that was on display and to access areas of the facility that are normally restricted, such as the player locker rooms, the indoor practice field, weight room, film room, and lounge/game room. 

The top five sales representatives were recognized for their individual achievements at the awards banquet. Jim Braun, of Braun Machinery, won the Top Sales Representative Award. The other winners were Jon Doell (#2) of Gage Machine Tool, Tim Navalta (#3) of Braun Machinery, Tom Drazkowski (#4) of Stone Machinery, and Bryan Recktenwald (#5) of ACI Machine Tools. 

The Top 5 Distributors in order were Braun Machinery (Michigan), Reynolds Machinery (Ohio), Brooks Associates (Massachusetts), ACI Machine Tools (Kentucky), and Stone Machinery (Minnesota).

CJ Smith Machinery Company (Missouri) won the Top Distributor Market Share Award and Top Distributor Growth went to Dynamic International (Wisconsin).

Hurco also welcomed new distributors Crotts & Saunders (representing Hurco in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and southeastern West Virginia), COSA Intermaquinas (representing Hurco in Brazil, South America), MDI Machine Tools (representing Hurco in southeastern Texas), and Motch & Eichele Company (representing Hurco in western Pennsylvania).

In other news from the company, Hurco officials announced new appointments.
Last week, Joe Braun appointed to vice president of marketing and product management and Scott Camloh to national sales manager. Hurco officials also announced the hiring of Cory Miller as general manager of Hurco North America.

Braun has worked at Hurco since April 2009, but has been selling Hurco CNC machines since 1990 as the co-owner of Braun Machinery in Michigan. Prior to his current position as vice president, he was the manager of distributor development for Hurco North America from 2010 to 2013 and was promoted to general manager of Hurco North America in 2013. In his role as vice president of marketing and product management, Braun will provide leadership and management of marketing and product planning activities worldwide. He will be responsible for positioning Hurco Companies’ three machine tool brands (Hurco, Milltronics, and Takumi) and overseeing product marketing activities, such as market and customer research, product launch management, sales training, and competitive analyses. 

Miller has been hired to serve as the general manager of Hurco North America. Miller returns to Hurco after accumulating 10 years of leadership experience, at various machine tool builders and accessory companies, most recently as general manager of Bucci Industries. During his previous tenure at Hurco, Miller held multiple management positions in sales, service, and applications. As general manager of Hurco North America, Miller will be responsible for all of the division’s operations. 

Camloh has been with Hurco since 2006 and served as the regional sales manager for the Eastern United States. Prior to Hurco, Camloh gained 25 years of experience in CNC project engineering, manufacturing production management, and machine tool sales. As national sales manager, Camloh will be responsible for leading and guiding the North American sales team, supervising the regional sales managers, transaction management, and distributor training and development.

Source: Hurco