10.02.2017

New CEO for Link Belt

Link-Belt chief executive Chuck Martz is to retire in April after 42 years with the company he will be replaced by Melvin Porter, currently chief financial officer.

Martz will remain as chairman of the Link Belt board of directors for the foreseeable future.
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Melvin Porter

Porter has been in his current role since 2004, having joined Link belt in 1999 as manager financial planning and taxes. In recent years he has been actively involved in overseeing operations of the Link-Belt company stores, Triad Machinery in the Northwest region of the U.S. and Link-Belt Mid-Atlantic, based in Virginia.

He will be replaced as chief financial officer by corporate controller Sandy Hammonds who has been in her current role since 2013. She joined the company in 1988 as a cost accountant in 1988, and has progressed through all levels of the accounting and finance departments in the 29 years since. .
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Sandy Hammonds

Martz began his career at Link-Belt in 1975 as a cost accountant and filled various accounting and financial positions, including controller over the following 15 years. In 1990, he was named vice president, finance and administration and then vice president of manufacturing from 1994-1998 becoming president in 1998 and chief executive in 2007. He became chairman in 2009.
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Chuck Martz