Preston Giles Email Address

General Manager SST-MW and WI

Makino is a company of many dimensions. Makino is really many companies in one: A world leader in metal cutting and manufacturing technology. A manufacturer of horizontal machining centers, vertical machining centers, wire EDM and ram EDM machines, and graphite machining centers. A software company and an application engineering company. A service company and a financing company. A turnkey engineering company and an integration services company. An automation company and a machine tool supplies company. A training company and a process technology company. A global company and a local company. That's why Makino is all a manufacturer needs to machine parts more accurately, productively and at a lower cost per part

Joined Heald Machine division of Cincinnati Milacron in 1979 as a field service technician after attending the Franklin Institute in Boston and studying electronics. Transfered to Charlotte, N.C. as an Applications Engineer in 1985. Transferred to Milwaukee as a Sales Engineer in 1989. Started Innovative Machine Tool Sales (IMTS) division of Engman-Taylor Company in 1992. Joined Makino in 2003 as General Manager of the Wisconsin Sales office in Waukesha, WI. Launched the Single Source Technologies-WI(SST) div of Makino in 2009. Assumed General Manager position for SST-MW in Elgin, IL in 2011. Currently General Manager of SST-MW and SST-WI.