L.S. Starrett Company Announces Key Management Appointments

The L.S. Starrett Co., a leading global manufacturer of precision measuring tools and gages, metrology systems, and more, has appointed four new executives to its global organization, further strengthening its corporate management at the highest levels. 

Starrett welcomes Roger N. Amrol, Jr. as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Barry D. Laughlin as Chief Operating Officer (COO), Allen E. Look as Global Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Jon-Michael Raymond as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). 

The new executives will be based out of Starrett corporate headquarters in Athol, MA, bringing a wealth of manufacturing industry experience, leadership, and skills to Starrett as the company focuses on continuous improvement, growth, and innovation.

Roger N. Amrol, Jr. succeeds Douglas A. Starrett, whose career with Starrett spanned 48 years as President and CEO. Amrol is poised to lead Starrett forward to a new level, joining the organization after 12 years with Robert Bosch Tool Corporation North America, where he was President and CEO for approximately five years. 

Also, within the Bosch organization, Amrol was President of the SKIL North America brand for four years and led the North America Accessories Business Unit as President for three years. Before Bosch, he was with Techtronics Industries as Vice President of procurement, operations, and product divisions for five years.  

Barry D. Laughlin brings his extensive manufacturing operations experience to Starrett and looks forward to applying his vision and skills to meet the company’s initiatives by implementing day-to-day business strategies and plans. He was most recently COO with Group DEKKO for nine years after being promoted from Executive Vice President of Operations, a position he held for almost two years. 

Before that, Laughlin was in an operations contract role at Caterpillar Inc. for six months, and before that, he was with Navistar for 26 years in various positions of increasing responsibility, with his last position being Director of Global Manufacturing and Custom Products for Navistar, Inc. 

Allen E. Look has over 25 years of information technology experience as a Global CIO with skills ranging from business leadership, operational excellence, data analysis, and cybersecurity proficiency. Before joining Starrett, Look held global CIO roles for 6 years at privately and publicly held companies, including FBG and Hayward Holdings, Inc., and provided interim CIO and executive advisory services in the private equity sector.

Jon-Michael Raymond has held sales and finance roles for over 17 years, most recently as Global Sales and Marketing Senior Vice President at FyterTech Nonwovens. Before that, he was Sales and Marketing General Manager at Mahr after approximately four years with Starrett as its North American Sales and Marketing Director for Industrial Products. 

For three years before that, he served as Vice President of Sales for PFERD Inc., and preceding that, he held various sales and finance positions, including with Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives.