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TECMA
Key Personnel
K.
Alan Russell, President
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K. Alan Russell is Co-Founder and President of
The TECMA Group, a manufacturing services company (Shelter) operating
in the U.S. and Mexico. TECMA began as a classical Mexican "Maquila"
contract manufacturer in 1985 and, once established, other
manufacturers approached Alan for help in integrating their
manufacturing into the Mexican environment. Now 20 years later, TECMA
is a well recognized entrepreneurial cross-border manufacturing
services organization with over 20 client companies operating in 10
plants in 4 Mexican cities and employing over 2,000. TECMA’s growth
and multi-cultural success has its roots in Alan’s expertise,
experience, and ambitions.
Alan, an Oklahoma farm boy, got his career "off
the ground" by learning to fly while studying aeronautics at
Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He used his pilot’s license to
"contract deliver" airplanes to South American customers. The
activity’s profits depended on Alan’s ability to hitchhike home
through Latin countries. Alan developed an affinity for, and
experience with, Latin cultures which prompted him to choose Latin
American routes when he became one of Continental Airline’s youngest
professional pilots. This decision posted Alan to Continental’s El
Paso hub and triggered his real estate ventures.
Alan’s love for flying and El Paso’s open spaces
merged into a fly-in community concept where airplanes could be taxied
directly to one’s home. The real estate development of Cielo Dorado
Air Park and other commercial projects has resulted in fifteen-years
of real estate development and site selection experience for Alan.
Continental Airlines closed its El Paso hub in the mid-1980s and Alan
chose to remain in El Paso to pursue his real estate and cross-border
business interests. The rest, as they say, is history.
Professional expertise:
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Hands-on business requirements of Mexico,
including legal, joint ventures, labor relations, taxes, import-export
laws, U.S./Mexican customs, and labor availability by Mexican region.
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Manufacturing requirements, including cost
control, quality systems, scheduling, staffing and training,
U.S./Mexico warehousing, and cross-border logistics.
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Mexican property rights including real estate,
machinery, taxes, legal title, liens, export/import regulations,
repossession, tear down and transport costs.
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Sales and Marketing
including money raising, public exhibitions, telemarketing, direct
marketing, and institutional marketing through chambers of commerce
etc.
Alan
maintains his professional pilot’s license, is an active flight
instructor, and pilots TECMA’s company plane in the U.S. and Mexico.
He is a founding member and Past-President of the Amigo Air Sho,
U.S./Mexico border area’s largest and most profitable civic event.
Alan is also a supporter and member of the Board of Directors of the
War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, NM. The Museum's purpose
is to collect, restore and display historic aircraft in order to
encourage the awareness and appreciation of military aviation history
through educational programs, exhibits and special events.
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Toby
M. Spoon, V.P. Operations
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Toby M.
Spoon is college trained in Human Resource Management and Theology. Toby was
reared in a true bicultural environment as his parents were missionaries
in Central America. Toby has
many years of hands-on experience in maintaining relations with various
Latin America governments and has negotiated agreements with them as an
agent of Amigos De Las Americas, Houston, Texas, a public health
organization. Toby has
coordinated 600 volunteers in 7 countries and subsequently served as
Associate Pastor to the 10,000 member Calvary Temple in Denver,
Colorado. Most of Toby’s
working life has been in achieving effects through motivating and
mobilizing others. A testimony to his skill and effort is the less than
2% per month employee turnover rate at TECMA’s four facilities
involving 12 programs in four different cities.
Toby is 100% bilingual in English and Spanish, and can read and
converse in Portuguese and Italian. |
Darrell McGahhey, C.F.O.
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Darrell McGahhey, a native
of Denver Colorado, moved to El Paso after serving four years in the
Army and attaining the rank of Second Lieutenant. He has 33 years of
manufacturing and financial management experience, with 18 years
working in Mexico. Darrell holds a BS in Chemistry and Manufacturing
Science from the University of Texas. As his career developed, he
went back to school and received his BA in Accounting and an MBA in
Finance from the University of Texas. He holds two patents for steel
making processes and is fluent in Spanish and English and is
bi-cultural.
Darrell has worked in a
wide variety of technologies from primary steel making to assembly
and distribution processes. His work experience ranges from large
corporate structures through medium single-owner companies to
personal entrepreneurship. He has experienced American, Mexican and
Japanese management styles and has training with Nippon Steel in the
Toyota Manufacturing Lean Manufacturing model of Total Quality
Management, Zero Quality Defects and Just-in-Time manufacturing.
While General Manager and VP of three divisions, he saw the need to
further his skill set with more education and received his
credentials in accounting and finance and changed his career
direction.
Darrell has worked with
creditors, banks, unions, stockholders, Board of Directors and
governmental agencies in both ongoing and turn-around businesses in
the U.S. and in Mexico. As an analyst, Darrell prepared financial
modeling for what-if scenarios in both operational cash flows and
potential investment impacts. He has also valued stock purchases and
valued acquisitions for corporations needing financial appraisals.
Darrell has been a part owner in Western
Credit Alliance, a lending institution for commercial loans. He was
responsible for the loan approval process, paper processing, and
collection of commercial loans. He has formed alliances with lenders
like Lending Tree, American Lending, Eagle Financial, and commercial
banks. As part of the lending base Darrell develop prospectuses to
attract private investors to provide capital base money. Darrell has
experience in developing private consortiums to manage investment
pools and IPOs for Mutual funds. After Darrell’s U.S. investor pool
for foreign investments started a new branch in San Antonio, Darrell
was recruited by his friend, Alan Russell to join TECMA where he has
brought financial systems, controls and accountability to a growing
company.
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Rodger
T. Lovrenich, V.P. Engineering
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Rodger T. Lovrenich is an inventor with over
28 patents, entrepreneur, and a specialist in technology transfer
management.
Rodger has a broad-based background in a wide
range of technologies, including amorphous semiconductor analysis
and manufacture, electro magnetic motor, generator and alternator
construction, plus controls for electro magnetic machines. Rodger
has extensive experience in automotive ignition and battery charging
systems.
Rodger has recent experience in managing
software development of massive control systems for automotive
powertrain manufacturing (transfer lines) employing autonomous agent
software technology.
Rodger has hands-on work-related technology
management and exchange with England (Ford Dagenham, transfer
lines), Denmark (Danfoss, amorphous semiconductors), Sweden (LM
Ericsson, amorphous semiconductors), Italy (Fiat, transfer lines),
Germany (AEG-Daimler Benz, management of subsidiary), Russia (Minsk
Tractor plant and Moscow Battle Tank plant, transfer lines), Japan
(Kubota Tractor, transfer lines and robotic controls), Taiwan (Texmate,
molding and circuit board assembly), Mexico (TECMA, circuit board
assembly and test), Nicaragua (Remote power generation and quick
freezing).
Rodger has received accolades from the Governor of Michigan, and an
entrepreneurial award from his Alma Matter, Kettering University,
previously General Motors Institute. |
Jose A. Grajeda,
Director of Operations
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Jose A. Grajeda was born and raised
in the border zone of El Paso-Juarez. He has over 25 years of
manufacturing experience, mostly in the Maquiladora industry. Pepe
has a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Juarez
Technological Institute.
Pepe has a strong background on
managing start-up operations for over 50 projects in different
industries including electronics, electromechanical, automotive,
military and medical.
His job experience with large
companies has allowed him to understand the multicultural
environment required to work with Japanese, German, French, Korean
and U.S. corporations such as General Electric, Motorola, ADC,
Nintendo, Texas Instruments, American Yasaki, Packard Electric,
Lockheed Martin Aerospace, Trane, AutoKabel, Valeo and Sei-Woo .
Pepe has been involved in building
construction, maintenance and refurbishing projects for over
3,000,000 sq. ft. throughout Mexico. He has been trained in legal
strategies to increase manufacturing efficiencies, as well as in
team building and cultural-shaping processes.
Pepe also has experience in
management of environmental, engineering, QC and production areas,
and implementation of disaster recovering programs.
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Teresa Cantrell,
Director of New Business
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Teresa Cantrell has been a member of the TECMA
group since 2003. Teresa, a native of Chihuahua, Mexico, has a
degree in Marketing from the premier University of Mexico, the
Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Before coming to TECMA, Teresa handled the
logistics, distribution and customs for UPS along the U.S. / Mexican
border. In 1998, Teresa sensed the opportunity to be a part of the
start-up for the Japanese manufacturing facility "First
International Computers". Shortly after, Teresa was recruited to be
a part of the TECMA Group as head of Client Services and the ever
changing and complex cross-border and customs.
Teresa was chosen by the TECMA President to head
the New Business Development for TECMA. Her broad experience in
overall administration, labor laws, customs and logistics in Mexico
and the United States, provides TECMA’s clients with a feeling of
comfort for their manufacturing programs in Mexico. Teresa will
guide TECMA’s new clients with experience through the steps of
starting your new operation assuring the success of your start-up
program.
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