After 45 years in the fastener industry, Joe Greenslade will retire at the end of 2015. Salim Brahimi of IBECA Technologies Corp. will succeed Greenslade as the Industrial Fasteners Institute director of engineering technology.
Greenslade told the Southwestern Fastener Association that he originally planned to work two more years, but decided he wants to spend more time on volunteer work.
As a high school student he was not oriented toward going to college. The father of another student became a mentor to Greenslade and encouraged him to go to college. As Greenslade completed his degree at Texas A&M in 1970 he went to thank his mentor, who said helping someone else was the best way to say thanks.(…)
via IFI Selects Brahimi to Succeed Greenslade – Global Fastener News – USA.