Febuary 2016 Chapter Meeting

With the pending retirement of AFS CEO Jerry Call after 12 years of leadership, AFS has taken the opportunity to implement many changes in order to position the Association to meet the challenges of the future and prepare for new leadership.  AFS President Bruce Dienst will provide a comprehensive update on the changes that have taken place in the last 18 months and some of the exciting new developments that will allow AFS to serve the industry better than ever before.

Bruce Wallace Dienst
Bruce Dienst is President & Chief Executive Officer of Simpson Technologies Corporation in Aurora, IL USA and the Geschäftsführer of Simpson Technologies GmbH in Baar, Switzerland. Bruce also serves on the Simpson Technologies Corporation‘s Board of Directors. Bruce is the great, great grandson of Simpson Technologies Corporation’s founder Peter L. Simpson. Bruce joined the company full time in June, 1983 and, in 1995, became the fifth generation of the family to assume the role of company President.

Bruce graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and in 1991 from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University with a Masters of Management.

Bruce has provided leadership in many metal casting industry professional organizations including serving as the President of the Casting Industry Suppliers Association in 1994-5, President of the Foundry Educational Foundation in 2004-5 and currently as President of the American Foundry Society. He is the only person ever to have served as President of all three major American metal casting industry trade organizations. In recognition of his service Bruce was awarded the Casting Industry Suppliers Association Presidents Award in 2000 and an American Foundry Society Service Citation in 2002.

Besides his metal casting industry involvement, Bruce is active in the local community serving on the Board of Directors of the Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, IL, currently acting as its Vice-Chairman, and the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL.