Horst Schmidt
Horst Schmidt has more than 25 years in the MTDM industry in senior management roles. He currently holds the position of Industry Research and Commercialization Associate for the C-4 program and works out of the University of Windsor. The C-4 program is directed at bringing leading-edge university research to industry for commercialization and matching university research expertise to industry’s needs.
In previous industry positions, he led a mould building company from a 25-person shop in a 17,000 sq ft facility in 1985 to a fully vertically integrated 130,000 sq ft tooling facility with over 200 people. He was also involved in developing a fully integrated plastics company serving the automotive sector that employs over 1000 people in five facilities. Success in these companies was based on using, deploying, and developing the latest in technology and processes; then continuing to maintain this leading edge position by continually updating and/or replacing existing technologies with the most advances available. When this did not meet their requirements, Horst was involved in the development of new technologies to meet their needs.
He has been involved with the Canadian Tooling & Machining Association (CTMA) over the past 20 years, during which he has held various voluntary executive positions within the organization and he currently holds the position of immediate Past-President.
Horst is also a founding board member of the Canadian Machine, Tool, Die & Mould Federation; Cofounder of the Yves Landry award winning Moulding Youth For Industry program (a pre-apprenticeship training program administered by the CTMA); and he served for a number of years on the Premier’s Advisory Council for education during which it developed the new standards for the metalworking trades. At St Clair College Horst has been on the metal cutting advisory committee for a number of years and he also sat on the Advisory Board for the Ford Center of Excellence and is a Past-President of the German Canadian Professional Association.

Ed Bernard

Ed Bernard is a consultant with BDO Dunwoody in Windsor, Ont., whose emphasis is on R&D projects and tax incentives.
He has wide experience in manufacturing processes related to tooling, moulds, and production parts in automotive, sporting goods, consumer products, and other fields. Since becoming involved with the SR&ED ITC Program, he has produced over 200 project claims which have all been accepted by the Canada Revenue Agency and have resulted in millions of dollars in refunds.

David Glover
David Glover was “born into the trades” so to speak.  His grandfather and father started Harbour Advanced Machining Ltd. back in 1972, so it was only natural that, after being around machinery since he could walk, he would eventually enter the trades himself.  So in June of 1997 David started his tool making apprenticeship.  Since then he has been very active at Harbour Advanced Machining Ltd. moving into Quality Control, Machine Tool Building and Repair.  He currently spends his days as Sales Manager with the company.  Along the way David has been very active in the community and with the Canadian Tooling & Machining Association.  He spent several years as the CTMA Windsor Chapter Chair at which time he took a lead role in insuring the success of the then CTMA’s Safety Group Program before its merger into the Canadian MTDM Federation.  Currently, David is still very active with the Windsor Chapter of the CTMA and is a member of the Board of Directors for both the CTMA and the Canadian MTDM Federation.
Contact:  harb@mnsi.net

Robert Cattle, President Canadian Tooling & Machining Association

Robert is married with three children and has 31 years experience in the tooling trade. He completed his apprenticeship as a tool & die maker in 1981, having attended George Brown College. He has 26 years experience in business ownership after purchasing shares in MicroMetric Ltd., a company established in 1961. MicroMetric Ltd. has been a member of the CTMA since 1982. Robert has served on the Board of Directors since 2002 in various positions including Toronto Chapter chair and vice-president, and was elected by his peers as President of the association in 2008. Robert is active in his community and is past-president of the Greenwood Recreation Association; he also volunteers for the OCMC, (Oshawa Competition Motorcycle Club). His hobbies include motorcycles, sports cars and golf.

Horst Just, Director of the CMTDMF ,(alternate)
Horst has been involved in the tooling industry all his working life.
A patternmaker by trade he started his own patternshop and machine shop in 1975 and still is President and General Manager of his own company HJ Machine & Pattern Ltd in Waterloo Ontario.The company produces Foundry Pattern Equipment , molds for various industries , checking fixtures for automotive tubing , custom machining.
Horst is a director of the CTMA and is also involved with the International Special Tooling & Machining Association.
Contact:  hjust@hjmach.on.ca