Jim Levine

President & CEO

Jim Levine is President & CEO of Paradigm Precision. Mr. Levine has over 30 years of manufacturing experience and has directed businesses in several markets including aerospace, abrasives, truck accessories, precision machining and packaging materials. He has also held executive positions in both the USA and Europe. In addition, Mr. Levine has successfully grown several portfolio companies for private equity groups over the last ten years most recently as CEO of Kingway Material Handling, an engineered materials storage company and before that CEO of Texstars, an aerospace company specializing in polymer and composite components for military and commercial platforms.

 

Mike Cowell

Chief Operating Officer

Mike Cowell is COO of Paradigm Precision. Mr. Cowell has nearly 30 years of experience in the aerospace industry, most recently as vice president and general manager at Palmer Manufacturing. While in that role, he led a strategy that doubled sales and migrated the company into a leading provider of large, complex machining. Additionally, he worked with the government of Tunisia to start up operations and technical staffing of Eurocast. Prior to Palmer, Mr. Cowell was a general manager for Stanley Bostich, a $360 million, 900-employee operation where he generated profit and growth improvements through lean manufacturing initiatives. He was also a general manager for Textron Babco.

John Dick

Chief Financial Officer

John Dick is CFO of Paradign Precision. Mr. Dick has over 20 years of experience as a senior financial executive with international manufacturing companies building on top of 8 years of public accounting experience. He has built an impressive career with global financial and management reporting, internal controls and compliance as well as making significant contributions to the growth and profitability of such notable companies as Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG), Hyster, SCI Systems, Sparton Electronics, Solectron and most recently Kimball International. His prior work encompassed the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia. He is a native Scot and a Chartered Accountant, the international equivalent of a Certified Public Accountant.