Employee Profiles

Sturtevant benefits from a highly skilled production department headed by Wayne Doherty, Chief Manufacturing Officer, who has been with Sturtevant for 30 years. His purchasing agents, Kathleen Leary and George Ford, have years of experience buying fabrications and components necessary to make Sturtevant equipment reliable. Our shop is staffed by the sons and a grandson of former Sturtevant employees. While Sturtevant outsources much of its parts machining and fabrication, we retain full capabilities in both disciplines to assure prompt quality.

Steven Olson, P.E., V.P. Engineering, heads the engineering department responsible for the design, analysis and development of our equipment. Thirteen years ago, Steven joined us from Bird Johnson where he had a successful career working with large rotating equipment. Steve’s staff includes a professional engineer, Graham MacNeil, and Sandee Eshner, a design engineer with additional responsibility for control panel design.

William Chapman, Jr., runs our process lab and serves as our Senior Technician. Bill is the son of a former Sturtevant employee and has over 25 years with the company operating and troubleshooting Sturtevant equipment. Bill is assisted by Bill MacNeil, who joined us from Sanborn Technologies eight years ago. Mr. MacNeil is a certified TIG welder.

Joseph Muscolino, a 20-year veteran of Sturtevant, heads our Sales Department. Joe is recognized throughout the world for his expertise applying air classifiers and Micronizers®. 

Rick Fortini, our Parts Manager, spent 20 years in our engineering department, ultimately as Chief Engineer, before transferring to Sales. His skill in sourcing appropriate parts, even for machines 50+ years old, is unmatched.

Steven Coulombe, our Sales Engineer, handles our Powderizer classifier mill and Simpactor pin mill product line solutions. A vast array of industries are served, including Calcined Kaolin, Sugars, Corn and Fuel ethanol production grinds, Ceramics, Calcium Carbonate, Wood Flour, Pigments, Limestone, Gypsum, Flour, Deagglomerate, Infestation destruction, etc. Steve has 25 years of experience in powder and industry systems. His depth of knowledge comes from working with plants, beginning as a field service technician, through inventing new equipment, designing and engineering new systems and, for the last seven years, working with customers to realize the most cost-effective, highest-performance solutions.

Charlotte Stevens, Marketing Manager, has been with Sturtevant for over seven years in several sales support roles. In 2004, she accepted additional responsibility for the marketing of Sturtevant products.

Afshin Nayeri, Sales Engineer for the Micronizer line of equipment joined Sturtevant in the Spring of 2006. Afshin brings with him extensive knowledge of de-agglomeration, particle size reduction, emulsification and dispersion of solids and liquids. As a Sales Engineer and Application Engineer for process equipment manufacturers, he recommended technical solutions as well as provided technical support and start-up assistance for the represented products in the powder and system solutions.

In June of 2003, management of the company passed from William S. English to W. Sturtevant English, Jr. Mr. English, Sr., has 45 years with the company and remains active seeking new technologies.

On January, 31, 2006, the Board of Directors at Sturtevant named W. Sturtevant English, Jr., to the position of President. Mr. English, Jr., has been with the company for over 12 years with added past experience outside the company in banking, mergers and acquisitions, and consulting. Mr. English, Jr., represents the fifth generation of family to manage Sturtevant.