Leadership
In our view, leadership is an attitude — it’s how you conduct your business and what you do for your employees and customers. Our senior management team includes professional engineers and people with business degrees — but paper qualifications are only part of the story in delivering high-quality products and top customer service. At MaXfield, we’re proud of our reputation, we know how important it is to nurture and maintain it, and we work very hard to do so.
Effective leadership is built through experience. Each of the 17 members of MaXfield’s senior management team has many years of individual service in the manufacturing sector — collectively, nearly two centuries’ worth! The company’s seniormost leaders today are also MaXfield’s founders, and they previously worked in the same sector since the 1970s.
One of the things experience has taught us is that mistakes cost time, and time costs money — for our customers, and for ourselves. That has driven our overriding operating principle: get it done right, the first time. That saves both time and money, which is invaluable to our customers. It’s also a safer and smoother way to operate.
The MaXfield senior team consists of:
- Budi Setiawan, P.Eng. — Board Chair & CEO
- Tony Giasson — President & COO
- Horacio Abalos, B.Com. — Sr. VP of Finance & CFO
- Ken Martin — Vice President of Sales and Marketing
- G.A. (Geoff) Van Egmond — Vice President Project Management
- T.M. (Mike) Moore — Vice President of Manufacturing
- Kent Publicover, P.Eng. — Vice President Plant Services
- Greg Chumik - Vice President Process Equipment
- Frank Xie, P.Eng. — Manager of Engineering and Estimating
- Logan Leys — Manager of Regional Business
- George Williams — Manager of Maintenance & Process Improvement
- Steve Hemphill — Manager of Fabricated Products
- Elmo A. Lim, B.Com. — Manager of Finance and Administration
- Curtis Lax - Manager of Production Prairie Region
- Grant Brotherton - Manager of Structural and Pressure Products
- Daina Johnston - Manager of Purchasing & Logistics
- Darren Shafer - Sales Manager
- Steve Lindsay - Manager Modular Equipment
- Dwayne Samdercock - Territory Manager Brandon
MaXfield’s experienced management team, our core business principles, our great team of employees and our continually improving lineup of manufacturing equipment have enabled us to achieve consistently high product quality over a multi-year track record.