
The board of directors of Bison Gear & Engineering appointed John Burch as CEO of the company effective May 1.
Burch succeeds Marcus Bours who served as the interim CEO since June of 2016. The board says they greatly appreciate the service of Bours during this challenging transition period.
Burch has more than 25 years of general management, marketing, sales, business development, and operations experience across a variety of industrial business to business markets. He joined Bison in 2008 as a regional sales manager progressing to his current role in November of 2015, as the executive vice president of Go To Market. Burch earned an MBA from Kent State University and a BS in general engineering from the University of Illinois.