Board Voting Slate

Nominating Committee Report

1. Nominating committee has prepared two “Elect” new seats that will be “elect” for 2 years and then transition to executive.

a. Secretary Treasurer elect
i. Candidate 1: Carl Evered – Motor Information Systems
ii. Candidate 2: Glen Eaton – DG Technologies

b. VP Strategy elect
i. Candidate 1: Ben Johnson – Repairify
ii. Candidate 2: Kim Cottle – Associated Equipment Corp
iii. Candidate 3: Brian Herron – Opus IVS

2. Nominating committee has posted for nominations and vetted 3 board member seats

a. Those 3 board terms expiring are: Bowman, Herron, and Olsen
ii. Replacement positions will 1-year terms
iii. ETI will run a standard election for 1-year terms to replace them.

3. Those 3 new candidates are

i. Seat 1: Chuck Olsen – AirPro Diagnostics
ii. Seat 2: Chris Bowman – Denso Products and Services
iii. Seat 3: Thomas Southward – Mitchell/Snap-on

4. The 2025 election will take place online.

a. At ETI’s Tool Tech, the president of ETI will give members information on the election including how to vote and where to look up candidate information.
b. There will be a web page available with the voting info and at least a paragraph on each candidate.
c. Voting ballots will be emailed to all Member Delegates.
d. Members will have until May 12th to vote. One vote per member company.
e. After the vote, the nominating committee will review and certify the election results.
f. Separate election rules and guidelines are attached.

5. Transition to the new board structure in 2026.

a. For 2025 there will be an executive board and general board during the transition.
b. The executive board will appoint 1 person from the elected board to be the 5th seat on the old executive board for 2025 executive term. They can chose from either the VP of strategy elect or Secretary treasure elect unless there’s a good reason for another position (for example, if existing executive members were elected into new roles and we need an outside person to hold the 5th spot).
c. In 2025 the newly elected VP strategy elect and secretary treasure elect won’t serve on the advisory board because it’s not going to start till 2026. But they will be tasked with getting ETI ready for the executive board (getting the structure and plans together)

6. Target transition date for new board structure is the 2026 elections

a. The Chairman elect will be voted in 2026 along with 3 Executive board members. One or two may be Europe based, but it’s not required.
b. There will be 5 advisory positions appointed in 2026 and the advisory board will launch.
c. The three 2027 board terms expiring will have two options in 2026
i. Either be automatically put on the advisory board
ii. Or nominate themselves for a seat on the executive board and follow the process