TEMPERATURE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Inside Sales, Customer Service
Job Titles:
- Accounts Payable
- General Administrator
Job Titles:
- President
- CEO & Sales
- DC, VA
The founder, Shelby Llewellyn Jones, established the company's initial momentum by introducing Swagelok™ fittings, Hoke™ valves, and Keystone™ wafer style butterfly valves among other products to a significant portion of the chemical, food, steel, military, and utility markets in the mid-Atlantic region. (In those early days, Hoke made no fittings and Swagelok made no valves.
By 1981, when Mr. Jones was 77, he was ready to entertain my proposal to buy him out over the next few years. (I was then his sales manager).My wife and business partner, Christina, and I completed the purchase shortly after Mr. Jones death in 1984. Fittingly, that settlement, was on St. David's day, March 1st, as special to a proud and colorful Welshman like Mr. Jones as St. Patrick's day is to the Irish.