SAVAGE, Minn. — Beckhoff Automation added Wesley Maine to its rapidly growing team as business development leader in the Great Lakes region. Maine brings deep experience in application engineering, sales, and management roles across the automation industry. In this role, he will develop new sales opportunities with current customers and prospects throughout Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky to further accelerate Beckhoff market share growth. Based out of the company’s Cincinnati-area office, he reports to Don Shanklin, regional director, sales and process.

“Wes has everything you look for in a business development professional,” Shanklin said. “He is an exciting addition, and we are thrilled to have him on the Beckhoff USA team. Wes is in a great position to leverage his deep experience in sales process, team selling and new customer development — along with enthusiasm for our market-leading automation technologies — to help us drive growth in the Great Lakes region and across the company.”