Carotek Promotions and New Team Members - Q1 2024

February 15, 2024

Carotek is happy to announce the following promotions and new employees. Feel free to reach out to these individuals as needed.

Carotek Promotions

Corinne Ley - Warehouse Manager

Corinne Ley has been promoted to Warehouse Manager effective February 1 st . She is well-suited for this position as having spent 5+ years in an Inside Sales role and prior warehouse duties during her tenure on the MIV project team.

She will help us improve our efficiencies as a company with inventory and incoming/out-bound shipments. She will be integral with the best practice teams and metrics for improvements. In this role, the Shipping Department will report to Corinne, and she will work closely with Tammy Pangle on Inventory Control and Procurement.

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Jeff Kimbrell officially retires at the end of March

The current Warehouse Manager, Jeff Kimbrell officially retires at the end of March . Jeff has been with Carotek since 6/16/14 after 30+ years working for Bowater Papermill which is now New Indy in Catawba, SC. Jeff also served as Mechanical Shop Foreman during his tenure.

Jeff plans to spend a lot of time in the mountains, working in my shop & on my tractors working the land and enjoying his grandchildren, Addie-Belle 18 months, her baby brother who is due 3/22/24 and another baby due 6/11/24 to his youngest Son and his wife. I. I came here

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Kim Bunch - Inside Sales Manager

Kim Bunch has been promoted to Inside Sales Manager for Mechanical Products.

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Todd Wilson - Inside Sales Manager

Todd Wilson has been promoted to Inside Sales Manager for Instrumentation.

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Kim and Todd will work closely with the existing Inside Sales Managers.

JR Sharp - Inside Sales Manager - Valves

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Jessica Miller - Inside Sales Manager - Virginia

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Nolan Graham - Account Manager SC

Nolan rejoined Carotek in January as an Account Manager in the Central South Carolina territory. Nolan will be responsible for existing and potential customers in South Carolina for the sale of Carotek Mechanical equipment products.

Nolan grew up in the Nashville, TN area, and played basketball and baseball in high school. He now lives in Chapin, SC. Nolan attended college at Francis Marion University. Nolan first cut his teeth in the industry with Southern Pump & Tank as an account manager, he then moved on to Carotek for five years, left to work at Watson-Marlow for five years, and now is back where he belongs at Carotek.

In his free time Nolan enjoys watching his boys play sports, lake fishing, boating and tubing. A self-admitted huge sports fan, he is big into watching football and basketball, and of course his Tennessee Vols.

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Deeshia Humphries - Field Service Coordinator

Deeshia recently started as a Field Service Coordinator at the Matthews, NC location. She will be responsible for scheduling field service technicians for on-site calls and training, providing customer service to customers, service personnel, sales, and sister companies, inventory control of equipment, and more.

Deeshia was born and raised in Columbia, SC. Since 2017 she has lived in Huntersville, NC. She has one brother and three sisters. Always active in sports growing up, Deeshia set the South Carolina state record when she was in 7 th grade in the 800 meter. She earned a track scholarship to Coastal Carolina University. There she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. She also holds the Big South Conference and school record in the 400 meter race.

A few years after graduating college, Deeshia joined the U.S. Air Force Reserves. Thank you for your service to our great country Deeshia! Deeshia served six years and did two deployments overseas, her main responsibilities in the reserves was as a logistics planner, coordinating equipment and troops. After the reserves Deeshia worked for Coca-Cola Bottling and XPO Logistics as an equipment scheduler and logistics specialist, respectively.

Hobbies of hers include stock market trading, working out and going for runs. She is a huge Atlanta Falcons and LeBron James fan.

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Zach Tuttle - Inside Sales VA

Zach recently came onboard as an Inside Sales Representative in our Richmond office, working primarily with mechanical product lines. Zach is responsible for providing outstanding service to our customers and support to the outside sales staff. He assists customers by answering questions and resolving complex problems related to replacement, spare, or new equipment, packages or systems for the Richmond office, Mechanical Product Division.

Zach hails from Williamsburg, VA, but has lived in many places as his father was in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Zach now resides just outside Richmond. He studied history at Christopher Newport University. His career path led him to different positions in sales carotek-febnewemployees.rtf or customer service related, he has worked for Eaton Corporation, Fastenal, and Virginia Beverage Services.

Sports is an interest of his, the Washington Capitals are his favorite team. Growing up he ran Cross Country, and indoor/outdoor track.

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