AWT makes personnel changes

Nancy Brake has been named vice president of operations for the company’s South Elgin, Illinois, location. Brake joined the South Elgin facility on April 25, relocating from North Carolina and bringing extensive knowledge in the flexible packaging food, pharmaceutical and industrial markets. She has experience in areas of manufacturing, quality, safety, GMP, pricing and sales service, as well as a strong focus on lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.

Brad Beskau in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will transition from label development/project manager to sales. Beskau has been with AWT’s Minneapolis facility since 2012, bringing valuable contributions to its pre-press group and most recently working as a project manager supporting the medical segment. His drive to identify his customers’ project requirements has enabled him to achieve results on a wide range of projects. In his new role, Beskau will manage assigned accounts and assist the medical business development manager to grow the company’s medical segment.

Nan Jaeger was named human resource generalist/manager. Jaeger joined AWT in June as the comanpy’s new human resource manager.  She brings more than 20 years of human resources management experience to AWT, and places a high value on communication and maintaining confidentiality and trust in the workplace.