ABOUT TATE PURSELL
Board-level experience for manufacturing and industrial boards.
Tate Pursell is an experienced company board director, former manufacturing CEO, private equity operating executive, committee chair, and corporate secretary. He helps manufacturers—and their boards—improve strategic oversight, governance effectiveness, and succession.
Experience
Tate has served on 13 corporate and association boards across manufacturing, distribution, aerospace systems, and business services. His board work spans family-owned companies, private-equity-backed businesses, independent-sponsor environments, and privately held manufacturers with international operations.
Selected Board Impact
Weiler Corporation — Helped establish board and committee charters, decision authorities, and governance/voting protocols as the company added non-family outside directors.
The Barton Group — Helped strengthen executive development, incentives, succession, and governance during a period in which the company roughly doubled in size.
Plasma Air International — Helped prepare the company for sale to a European private-equity firm, contributing to approximately 5x cash-on-cash shareholder realization.
Operating and Leadership Context
Former CEO of five manufacturing companies, including Baldwin Hardware and American Metal Products; interim CEO of American Jebco; and CEO/director roles at Unique Home Designs and SmartFlow Technologies.
Operating Partner, MSI Capital Partners; Operating Partner, Cortec Group; Group President, Applied Tech Products; Co-founder and Corporate Secretary, Unlimited Horizons.
Governance/Nominating and Audit/Risk committee service; chaired Compensation/HR committees on two boards; Audit Committee Financial Expert; corporate secretary on four boards.
Led director searches and onboarding and contributed to board succession across multiple private-company boards.
Author of A Roadmap to Your Next Board Seat: How Senior Executives Get Directorships