Annette has more than 20 years’ experience as a marketing professional working for manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Okuma she was Director of Marketing Communications for Sealed Air Corporation where she led the marketing communications department for the Diversey Care business segment. She has also held marketing positions with tesa tape, inc. and Siemens Energy & Automation. Annette earned a B.A. in Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Mini MBA in Digital Marketing from Rutgers University, and an MBA Certificate from Cornell University. She is an active volunteer in the community and has generously given her time to Loaves and Fishes and the Charlotte Rescue Mission.
With IMTS 2024 just a few months away, many in the machine tool industry are making preparations to take advantage of all that this expansive show has to offer. For Okuma, this show provides an opportunity to contribute to ...
At Okuma America, we strongly believe that the best outcomes are created when various entities work together through problem-solving and innovation. This is the reason our program called Partners in THINC was established more...
One year ago, here in the U.S. and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic began to unleash harsh new realities upon all of us, triggering unprecedented chaos and radical change. As this period of upheaval ensued, virtually a...
Recently I saw a piece of information shared by the Content Marketing Institute that is very provocative and relevant to today’s sales and marketing environment: “Eighty percent of the sales cycle now takes place in digital o...
By early June of this year, the Marketing team at Okuma had already been working for nine months to prepare a physical structure and booth presence for IMTS - The International Manufacturing Technology Show, the industry’s le...
In today’s manufacturing industry, the selling environment is radically different than it was just four months ago, and most salespeople are in the process of redefining their strategies, tools and tactics. At Okuma America, ...
At Okuma America Corporation I’m surrounded by seasoned professionals who have decades of experience with the company. This means, even with my 3+ years tenure, in some ways you could call me a relative “newbie.” I have, howe...
In today’s business world, most of us are focused on making big impacts for our customers, our employees and our communities. It’s just an embedded part of our culture to think “more is better.” When it comes to sustainabilit...
We at Okuma America share a common mission: to passionately pursue customers for life. I’ve personally seen this passion displayed on a daily basis in a variety of ways: employees working late and on weekends to ensure machin...
I recently traveled to Japan, along with 70 of our distributors and Okuma leadership members, for the Okuma Machine Fair event held at our company headquarters in Oguchi. It was a whirlwind trip with many highlights and lots ...
