Rick Platt............................

If some future administration creates The Chief Manufacturing Evangelist position, I will be nominating Rick Platt for the job.  An Ohio guy through and through (ok, he's a Steelers fan.  Nobody 's perfect), no one understands the positive role of manufacturing in Ohio's past and future better than Rick. No one advocates more for the expansion of  STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education in our schools.  No one is more into public/private partnerships to make the right things happen.   His performance in his current role as President and CEO of the Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority has been exemplary.  Our whole community has benefited from his labors.  Father of tripletts and an advocate for Black Hand Gorge, Rick also finds the time to run a must-read blog.   Here, here, here and here are some of his recent posts on manufacturing.