Richard Potesta
Founder · President & CEO, Potesta & Company · President, CTI-USA
Richard founded Potesta & Company in 2012 and leads every part of the business, from engineering and operations to sales. He started the company to serve the equipment designers, manufacturers and rebuilders who are underserved by the traditional bearing and gear suppliers, and to change the buying experience for small and mid-sized OEMs.
Richard spent 35 years in the custom machinery and integration market, designing and building the same kinds of machines our customers build. He comes from where our customers live, so he knows firsthand what an OEM engineer needs from a supplier: fast answers, the right part for the design and a delivery date you can count on. Before founding the company he was President of Storetek Engineering, where he grew a two-person start-up into a multi-location engineering and manufacturing company, and earlier he was an Account Manager at Güdel, a global leader in rack-and-pinion linear motion.
Under his leadership the company has grown from SlewPro slewing ring bearings into four brands: SlewPro slewing rings and drives, SlimPro thin section bearings, RackPro gear racks and Rhino Gear custom gearing, now with in-house CNC gear hobbing and shaping. Richard is also President of CTI-USA, which supplies gear cutting tools from Capital Tool Industries and EIFCO to North American gear manufacturers.
Richard studied at Kent State University and lives in Stow, Ohio.
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