Dennis E. Jones is Colson Group’s vice president of global product engineering, bringing more than 33 years of manufacturing-based experience to the company. In this role, Jones specializes in advancing Colson Group’s global technology and new product development process.

 Prior to his current role with the company, Jones served as the vice president of operations for Colson Group USA under the One Colson initiative from 2012 to 2014. He began his career in the caster and wheel industry in 1994, when he joined St. Joseph, Michigan-based Shepherd Caster Corp. as the director of operations. He was later promoted to vice president of sales and marketing in 1998 and advanced to president of the company in 2001.

Before joining the caster industry, Jones served as manager of manufacturing engineering from 1984 until 1994 at Detroit Steel Products, a Tier 1 automotive supplier to the medium- and heavy-truck industry in Morristown, Indiana. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of the manufacturing engineering support group, including machine and plant automation, industrial engineering, tooling engineering and management of a three-shift maintenance and tool room crew.

Jones has been active with the Cornerstone Chamber of Commerce in St. Joseph, Michigan, where he was named Entrepreneur of the Year – Manufacturing Sector in 2009 and was recognized by the State of Michigan for his work at Shepherd Caster Corp. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Mr. Kobor is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in engineering-driven industrial companies. His background includes a mix of general management, financial oversight, and engineering positions at domestic and international businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller privately-held enterprises.

Mr. Kobor was named CEO of Colson Group in 2021. Mr. Kobor was also the former CEO of Edge Industrial Technologies and former CEO of Petrosmith, LLC, both Blue Wolf portfolio companies as well as served on the Board of Directors for both. Mr. Kobor also serves on the Board of Directors for Blue Wolf portfolio company, Colson Group. Immediately prior to joining Blue Wolf, Mr. Kobor served in succession as President, Power and Specialty Tools and President, Equipment Worldwide at Snap-on Inc. In those roles, he drove strong growth via targeted acquisitions, developed new products, and reduced costs through standardizing design and rationalizing the supply chain. He also previously served as a Managing Director at Bitzer SE in Sindlefingen, Germany, where he helped to steer a $700M global company through the recession. Before that, he was president of Bitzer’s North America division. He has also been EVP of Operations at Harbour Group-ACS Group/AEC, Inc., and Director of Operations in the Carlyle Compressor Division of United Technologies-Carrier Corporation. He began his career as a Welding and Shipfitting Supervisor at General Dynamics- Electric Boat.

Mr. Kobor holds an M.B.A. and M.S. in Engineering with Distinction from Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management/Robert McCormick School of Engineering, and a B.S. in Structural Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, College of Engineering.