Team

Steve has been a senior executive in the plastics industry for 20 years. Prior to joining Trexel in 2010, Braig has been CEO of Engel North America, the injection molding machine and robotics supplier, with responsibility for 3 manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Canada. Before his leadership role at Engel, he has been CEO of Automated Assemblies Corp, a Nypro company, and various other senior leadership positions wit capital equipment manufacturers.

He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology in his native Switzerland and subsequently continued his business education at the Management Zentrum St. Gallen, Switzerland and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Braig also serves on the National Board of Directors of the Society of the Plastics Industry, the U.S. plastics industry trade association located in Washington D.C

Petr joined Trexel in 2006 and has progressively assumed and consolidated the leadership responsibilities of the operations and finance groups. Prior to joining Trexel he has worked as a Program Manager at a Magna division, Decoma, a leading Tier I in the automotive industry. While at Decoma, he assumed the responsibility of simultaneous product management for two vehicle bumper systems from concept to prototype to customer approved production at Mercedes Benz, in a fast paced green field environment. Before his program management role at Decoma, he led entrepreneurial product design and development activities for a Tier I automotive supplier in Europe. Petr holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Levi has been at Trexel 13 years starting as the Director of Process Development for injection molding technology. He now has responsibility for all technical activities. Prior to Trexel, Levi spent 4 ½ years in product and applications develop for injection molded resins at Montell Polyolefins and 6 ½ years at The Dow Chemical in Plastics Technical Service and Development to the automotive industry. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.T.

Brent is a 20-year plastics equipment industry veteran, and served most recently as Director of Automation at Engel Machinery, the injection molding machine and automation supplier in York, PA. Prior to his leading the automation group in 2009, Brent served as Regional Sales Manager for several years. He joined Engel in 2000 as Technical Sales Manager. Prior to joining Engel, Brent was with Wittmann USA for 7 years, serving in positions of progressively increasing responsibility, and was Regional Sales and Service Manager when he left Wittmann in 2000. He is a 10 year military veteran serving the Gulf War . While in the military he attended the University of Embry Riddle studying aviation management.

Yasuhide is President and CEO of Trexel Japan Inc. located in Yokohama, Japan.

Trexel Japan is Trexel's exclusive representative for MuCell injection molding technology in Japan. In 1968, upon completing his studies in the United States, he returned to Japan to work for Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. After fulfilling his obligations to the family corporation, he departed to pursue his entrepreneurial interest. He established Sanpho Co., Ltd. Other businesses in Japan and later in the United States beginning in 1979 were to follow.

He is a graduate of Keio University and he is the first Japanese national to graduate from the M.B.A. program of Boston University.

Patrick is the General Manager of the Asia Operations of Trexel Inc. He is based in Hong Kong and is chartered to build up the sales and support infrastructure in Asia to support the fast growing business in MuCell® Technology. Qualified and trained sales and support staffs are supporting MuCell customers in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Korea and Hong Kong. Spare parts centers are established around Asia.

He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with Bachelor Degree in Engineering and Master Degree in Business Administration. He has worked in a few USA-based multinational companies in various sales, support and management positions in his last 27 years in Asia.

Dr. Hartmut Traut received his Master of Business Administration and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Siegen (Germany).

Dr. Traut came to Trexel from Thermo Detection, where he was the Sales and Marketing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa supplying chemical and optical detection equipment to the food and beverage industry. This equipment was used to detect foreign materials in refillable PET bottles.

Previously, he was founder and CEO of Centro Kontrollsysteme GmbH, which develops and manufactures advanced control and handling systems. Today Dr. Traut manages Trexel's business activities in Europe since 2002.