CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — MiTek Industries Inc. (MiTek), a diversified, global business supplying a wide range of engineered products; proprietary business management and design software; and automated equipment to the construction and industrial markets, announced that it has added Mark Thom to its leadership as the new CEO. The current CEO, Tom Manenti, will assume the role of executive chairman for 2017. Manenti will continue to report to Warren Buffett.
Thom has a background of executive leadership and achievement in management and sales. For 16 years, he led teams within the former Tyco Healthcare, a nearly $12 billion global manufacturer of medical and pharmaceutical products, where Thom received top honors as a sales person. He began his career at Tyco Healthcare after graduation from Miami University and rose to the role of president of Tyco’s Vascular Therapy division in 1998, just eight years after he left college. Soon after Tyco Healthcare acquired Mallinckrodt Medical, Thom was named president of Mallinckrodt’s Diagnostic Imaging business, and he was later named group president, Tyco Healthcare in early 2003. In recent years he served as leadership consultant to the MiTek senior leadership team, where he learned the MiTek business and its culture.