David Ward has a passion for manufacturing and the metal cutting industry. In his 30+ years with Makino, he's been involved with multiple aspects of the machine tool industry. David began working at Makino as an Application Engineer, developing innovative and robust turnkey machining solutions for numerous automotive and aerospace customers. Leveraging this machine and applications experience, he supported production machinery sales as a Regional Sales Manager covering mid-west and mid-Atlantic sales territories. Since 2010, he has been part of Makino's Product Management group, providing engineering, sales and marketing support for Makino's industry leading machining center products.