Our leadership team includes innovators and experts whose goal is to share their expertise with the organization to build a stronger corporation and collaborative relationships with our customers.
Our inclusive culture is based on teamwork, service, transparency and integrity. This was by design. To Cirtronics, people matter as much as profits. Our collective responsibilities extend beyond our walls to our customers as well as the greater community. Our Leadership team is dedicated to upholding and applying these foundational principles that permeate the Cirtronics Culture.
We don’t just work together; we grow and succeed together.
Gerardine strongly believes that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when given the opportunity.
She began her career in social work, committed to helping people reach their full potential. In 1979, after gaining experience working in electronics manufacturing, Gerardine founded Cirtronics Corporation. She knew that Cirtronics could offer high quality jobs while providing people opportunities for personal and professional development.
By attracting people who exemplified Cirtronics’ values, and creating positions that matched their individual gifts, Gerardine guided the growth of the company. This unusual approach continues to be key to our strong, collaborative environment where we benefit from the talents of each individual.
From the beginning, Gerardine infused every aspect of Cirtronics with a mission “to serve and continuously improve under the Do Unto Others philosophy.” Gerardine has always believed that we can do well by doing “good”. Our culture of service to our corporation, customers, employee owners, environment, community and suppliers shows in everything we do.
Gerardine generously served on the boards of numerous non-profits including: New Hampshire Catholic Charities, Business Industry Association (BIA) of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Vested for Growth, and Rivier University.
In 2002, in service to the corporation, employees and customers, Gerardine transitioned Cirtronics to an employee-owned company, an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Program).
Gerardine’s enthusiasm about the company and belief in each individual’s potential continues to be self-fulfilling. The average tenure at Cirtronics is over 15 years. And Cirtronics feels like family to all 200+ employee-owners.
Mutual respect, transparency, access, and joy underscore Gerardine’s commitment to participative leadership. We’d say she has an “open-door” policy, but that’s not quite accurate. Her door is always open because, by design and request, her office has no doors.
Tom came to Cirtronics with over 30 years of sales, sales management, and business ownership experience. He is responsible for aligning our sales process with our best-fit customers. He also manages our talented sales and account management teams, both of whom are critical in customer engagement and communication.
Tom collaborates with the sales team and other groups in the company, to tailor our services to specifically address the needs of each potential new customer and their project. Tom’s ability to forecast market trends and assess the competitive environment helps the company identify and explore new areas for growth.
Tom graduated from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire with a BS degree in Business Management. He’s definitely a team player, and was on the UNH baseball team for 4 years. He’s now an avid golfer and enjoys watching and participating in many other sports. He comes from a big extended family and enjoys all food-centric social/family gatherings. His positive energy, as well as his level of attention and engagement are a joy.
Stephanie has over 16 years of marketing strategy, brand awareness and communications experience. After working for a well-known communications company supporting national brand management campaigns and growing their lead generation program, Stephanie joined Cirtronics over 10 years ago where she began in a crossover role that bridged Sales and Marketing.
Stephanie is now the Director of Marketing where she oversees all operational aspects of corporate marketing. She leads the marketing team, ensuring alignment of promotional activities and messaging with Cirtronics’ strong values and culture. The marketing team also works closely with the sales team in all lead generation efforts including messaging and values alignment.
In addition to leading the marketing team, Stephanie is also a member of our corporate strategic direction committee, which is tasked with coordinating activities, priorities and long and short-term planning to support Cirtronics’ strategic direction.
Stephanie graduated from George Washington University with a degree in Business Management and Marketing. As a mom of 3 school-aged kids, Stephanie is used to juggling multiple tasks with grace and aplomb. She is also an avid runner and swimmer. We’re all pretty convinced she has superpowers or has figured out cloning.
Dan joined Cirtronics at the beginning of 2023, bringing over 25 years of extensive financial, analytical, and leadership experience in various industries – including transportation, software, and medical devices.
Dan is responsible for all corporate-level business and financial strategy and implementation including managing the finances, finance department, and regulatory reporting. Cirtronics is both privately held and an ESOP (employee owned) company. Dan oversees all fiduciary commitments, including ongoing transparent communication to our employee-owners, ensuring and supporting our culture of openness.
Dan received his BS in Finance from Western International University, as well as his MBA in International Management from University of Phoenix. An avid golfer in his free time, Dan also enjoys traveling and hiking with his fiancé. While he enjoys watching most New England sports teams, Dan’s roots run deep – he’s a Wisconsinite at heart as he is not only a Packers fan, but also a shareholder in the team!
Jessica joined Cirtronics as the Career Development Manager in 2015. Jessica manages The Learning Center (TLC). TLC is dedicated to serving the company and employees by developing training initiatives to promote personal and professional growth for all personnel. A key aspect of her role is to nurture the core philosophies of the Cirtronics organization through those initiatives to ensure the sustainability of the culture as the company grows and evolves.
Prior to joining Cirtronics, Jessica served in leadership positions for both non-profit and higher educational organizations. She graduated from the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in St. Joseph, MN with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater. The benefits she brings to the company through her broad perspective, strength of her values, her dedication and her creativity, are irrefutable. Don’t let anyone talk you out of that liberal arts degree.
Lenny is a subject matter expert in Procurement and Procurement Strategy. This includes forecasting, planning, sourcing, and buying. His expertise includes 30+ years of experience in a variety of roles supporting Materials Management in quality-critical markets such as Medical, Military, High-tech and Industrial.
Lenny joined Cirtronics in 2016 and is responsible for leading the global sourcing and procurement team, and requires communication with all departments in the organization. His position includes supporting and furthering Cirtronics’ supply chain strategy as commodity management, while maintaining the agility and resourcefulness to accommodate un-forecasted changes such as those due to global events or changes in customer needs.
Lenny and his team are dedicated to building and maintaining strong, sustainable relationships built on mutual trust and respect with our suppliers across the globe. The overarching goal is always to exceed customer expectations on balancing cost, quality and on-time delivery.
Lenny received his degree in Digital Electronics from Hesser College. In his spare time, Lenny loves working on small construction projects. While there are often unforeseen challenges that require creative problem solving and workarounds, measuring twice, cutting once is always the goal.
Jim joined Cirtronics in 1994. With over 35 years in Test and Manufacturing Services, he coordinates all aspects of our manufacturing and engineering operations, from pre-production to testing. As a former Test Technician himself, he communicates easily and often with both internal and external engineering contacts. Jim truly embodies people-first leadership and leads by example. He supports the development of team leaders by identifying professional and personal development opportunities for each member of the entire organization.
His role in service to the customer is to ensure that builds align with design expectations. Key to Cirtronics’ commitment to continuous improvement, Jim manages all monitoring and improvement activities of manufacturing processes, upholding manufacturing quality standards, best practices, and up-to-date training for team members.
Jim’s Certifications include JCIT (Lean Manufacturing), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Aegis, and Facilitation Training. He received his degree in Computer Science and Digital Electronics. Jim is a consummate team player—he is the current Team Captain and plays offense on a local men’s soccer team with whom he has played for years. He believes in competition and fair play. He can often be found working on puzzles or playing chess during lunch, and has a penchant for show tunes. Thank goodness he can sing.
Samantha “Sam” O’Neill joined Cirtronics as the Chief Culture Officer in early 2021. She brought with her all the knowledge she gained over 25 years of experience as a senior Human Resources executive. Prior to coming to Cirtronics, Sam held VP of HR positions across various industries, including IT, manufacturing, and health care.
Sensitive to the importance of workplace environment and values, Sam was attracted to our strong culture. As the head of HR, Sam ensures our cultural integrity by hiring for a great cultural fit. Her transparent communication to and from the C-Suite keeps employees and executives informed. Through her oversight of The Learning Center (TLC), Sam supports our employees’ ongoing personal and professional growth with in-house skills training at multiple levels. And she assists employees in exploring appropriate opportunities to shift positions within the company according to their developing interests. Sam demonstrates her dedication to service to “The 6”, specifically service to our employees, every day.
For Sam, family comes first. Her family includes her husband, three kids, two grandchildren and a beloved dog. She enjoys time spent relaxing on the water. Once we share that Sam has her BA in Music Education from Westfield State University, Sam’s flute playing may not come as a surprise. But here’s a left hook: Sam has a blackbelt in kickboxing. We’re so lucky to have her.
Our long time Cirtronics family member, Deena Spanos, passed away in February 2023, after a 13-year battle with cancer. Deena’s loss will be with us forever, but we will treasure our memories with her and continue to celebrate the amazing and strong woman she was. Please enjoy these poetic words from our own Jim McCall, as a memorial to Deena’s life, light, and legacy.
Ted came to Cirtronics in 2008 and has nearly 35 years of experience in military avionics and electronics manufacturing.
As the Director of Corporate Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, Ted provides overall company leadership and direction to create, monitor and improve quality programs, and reduce costs while meeting customer quality requirements. His attention to detail, and creative problem solving, are put to use every day as we actively apply the tenets of continuous improvement.
With respect to regulatory affairs, Ted’s responsibilities include acting as liaison to and maintaining Cirtronics’ compliance with FDA, ISO and other regulatory bodies.
Along with other senior leadership, Ted is involved in the ideation and development of broad regulatory strategies consistent with business objectives and regulatory requirements. This has included expanding our certifications and registrations in response to customer requirements.
Ted received his degree in Computer Science from Franklin Pierce College. In his spare time, Ted makes beautiful handcrafted wooden pens. Turning from squared stock of different woods requires knowledge, skill, patience and attention. The pens he creates reflect a combination of dedication to and respect for excellence, balancing quality, esthetics and functionality.
