EW # 12501 is founder and president of a firm that provides management and engineering support for CEOs, managers, and attorneys.

His clients include GKN, Daewoo, MetalDyne, DT Industries, and TVS Group, plus numerous small and medium privately held organizations including manufacturing startups, retail franchisers, and family-run corporations.

EW # 12501's  machinery industry expertise is based on a mechanical engineering degree and skills developed during 25 years' ownership, top management, international sales, design engineering, field startup / troubleshooting / installation, and project management positions with heavy machinery manufacturing companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Noteworthy among his experience was 1977-1998 as co-founder, owner, employee, officer, and director of Hess Industries, Inc. (industrial mass production machinery designer/manufacturer, headquarters in Michigan), a company that grew from its two founders to 500 employees in six locations in the U.S. and Europe. Hess Industries' major customers are automotive OEM and Tier 1 manufacturers; the company's products include proprietary lines of metalworking machinery including presses, resistance and arc welders, roll formers, shrinkers, expanders, straighteners, metal spinning machines, cold rolling mills, mill instrumentation, automations, robotics, special machines, assembly machines, food processing machines, and production lines combining many different manufacturing technologies.

Fritz was involved with many key elements of the company's growth, including top management, machinery and tooling engineering, intellectual property protection, international sales and marketing, equipment installation and startup, establishment of overseas licensees and licensors, forging strategic international alliances, asset acquisitions and startups of U.S. and European companies, due diligence, boards of directors, community and government relations, and P&L responsibilities.

EW # 12501 was born in 1946 in the U.S. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio Northern University, and has taken additional business management studies at the University of Notre Dame.