The National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining Board of Directors
Douglas Karl Woods

President
Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)

Doug Woods joined the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) as its president in April 2009. Prior to that, he was president of Parlec Incorporated, an industry leader in precision toolholders, presetters, driven & static tools for multitasking machines, workholding, boring, and tapping products. Parlec operates facilities in Rochester, New York, Nanjing, China and Bristol, England.

After joining Parlec in 2006 as President of Parlec International and growing the company's businesses in Europe and China, Doug assumed responsibility for worldwide operations including the North American manufacturing and engineering operations as President of Parlec Inc. in 2008.

Doug was previously the President and CEO of Liberty Precision Industries, which he joined in 1990. Under his leadership Liberty grew from a $7 million tool and die company to a $40 million internationally recognized manufacturing company involved in the design and manufacture of flexible machining systems.

Doug started his career as an apprentice toolmaker at Alliance Tool Corporation in 1975 and after receiving a B.S. in Business from Syracuse University and went on to hold several key management positions at Alliance and its parent company Cross & Trecker, including a two-year assignment in Germany as Director of European Operations.

Doug was AMT's Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2005-06 and served on its Board of Directors from 2000-08. Doug was also active in the National Tooling & Machining Association, where he has chaired the Global Marketing Committee and is Past President of the Rochester Chapter of the NTMA. In 1994 he was the Upstate New York recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Manufacturing Turnarounds.