Bender Leadership Team

At Bender Inc., our leadership team brings together decades of experience in electrical safety, engineering, and strategic growth. United by a commitment to innovation, reliability, and service, our leaders drive Bender’s mission to deliver best-in-class solutions that protect people and equipment across critical industries. Their vision shapes our culture of excellence and our focus on building a safer future.

Leadership Team - U.S.
David Knecht
David Knecht
CEO | Managing Director
Torsten Gruhn
Torsten Gruhn
Head of EV Sales
Jon Leopold
Jon Leopold
Quality Manager
John Kenitz
John Kenitz
CFO | Managing Director
Jeff Glenney
Jeff Glenney
Vice President of Sales
Andy Johnson
Andy Johnson
Engineering & Compliance Manager
Hannah Medvic
Hannah Medvic
Head of Marketing and Communications
Daniel Saenz
Daniel Saenz
Customer Experience Director
Mike Griffith
Mike Griffith
Head of Operations
Leadership Team - Canada
Amir Mojtahed
Amir Mojtahed
Managing Director Bender Canada
Monthly Featured Employee
Kevin McCarthy
Title: Distribution Supervisor
Department: Operations
Joined Bender: October 2021
Degree/certificates: LEAN Certificate

Before joining Bender, Kevin was Shipping Coordinator for PJM Interconnection (the energy grid for a majority of the east coast) in control of the entire campus’ inbound and outbound needs, as well as helping assist with the transition of employee work from home requirements during the pandemic. Before that he was with Raymour & Flanigan where he joined as a warehouse lead and worked up to an Operations Supervisor managing over 60 associates in a very high paced furniture delivery environment.  

At Bender he is the Distribution Supervisor in charge of our receiving dock and shipping practices. He is the first check in point for RMAs, in charge of printing all BOMs/labels for our production orders, programming of our COM kits, assisting inventory with cycle counts, maintaining our Schneider truck deliveries, processing material withdrawals, and soon entering the world of production planning.  

What he likes most about Bender is the very generous with paid holidays, especially near the holiday season year end. He enjoys working with his team, working together to come up with new solutions which can innovate and improve processes. Kevin feels like he isn't just a number, what he does has a direct impact on the company.  

In his spare time, he is a huge pro wrestling and heavy music nerd (Kevin possibly add band and artist names), and have seen wrestling events/attended concerts all over the US, Mexico and England (3 day heavy metal fest, Cosmic Void Festival). He and his wife go to the Dominican Republic for vacations and they also enjoy taking roadtrips down South. He lives near the Main Line and he enjoys going to events there with his fur baby (Maltipoo rescue). 

Favorite Bender product and why:  LifeGuard because it's utilized on film sets and is in nearly every movie with a water scene.  

Manager statemen from Jon Patton, Plant Manager: Since joining the team Kevin has been a great asset to the Distribution Team.  He has been part of numerous CI events.  Perhaps his biggest achievement was organizing the Mezzanine.  His ability to utilize space and make it efficient for his team was outstanding.  Giving parts locations and making them easy to find is definitely helping our inventory and the reason the distribution team is so efficient.   

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