Forney LP Names Joel Simpson as Sr. VP, Sales & Marketing
Pittsburgh, PA: Forney LP recently named Joel Simpson as Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing. The new position supports the company’s recent and predicted growth for ForneyVault®, its automated, integrated construction materials testing (CMT) platform.
Simpson is an experienced sales professional who most recently was Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing & Operations for O.Berk Company, a rigid packaging and custom package development company in New Jersey. At O.Berk, Simpson developed and led commercial and operational plans while overseeing a team of 47 across marketing, supply chain, sales, customer service, package engineering, sales support and pricing. He previously served in sales and operations management for several industries. Simpson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of New York at Buffalo School of Management.
“Joel is keenly aware of ForneyVault’s potential as the preferred, truly automated CMT platform for testing reliability that supports the associated infrastructure for thousands of users,” says Jeff Dziki, CEO, Forney LP. “Joel’s leadership and sales experience and his insight into highly demanding environments align with our strategic plan to advance ForneyVault and ensure compliant, standardized testing that ensures the materials used in a project are trustworthy.”
ForneyVault ends error-prone manual tests within the CMT process. It links testing machines, LIMS packages, third-party software and ancillary equipment via a private cloud database. With ForneyVault, data flows seamlessly throughout the testing process, reducing the risk of errors, increasing compliance and driving more positive outcomes for labs of all types. To date, laboratories in more than 30 locations in three countries have logged more than 400,000 tests with ForneyVault.
About Forney LP and ForneyVault®
Forney LP is a material testing equipment innovator and distributor based in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, with additional facilities in Aurora, Colorado. Forney is the maker of ForneyVault®, an auditable, unalterable materials testing system. Forney’s focus is on material testing equipment for cementitious materials like cement, mortar, grout and concrete for the construction industry, downhole cement and proppant materials for oil and gas industry, and general metals testing. Forney sells its products to more than 75 countries.
