John G. Erkert is the Chief Financial Officer of the IPEG Group, based near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. John has been a member of the group for over 17 years. He has served many years as CFO of Rapid Granulator, Inc. in the USA, and in 2008 added responsibilities with International Plastics Equipment Group (IPEG) as Director of Finance with focus on the Conair and Rapid businesses in Shanghai, Taipei, and Singapore. John was promoted to CFO of the Rapid Granulator Group based in Bredaryd, Sweden in 2011 and to CFO of the entire IPEG Group in 2012.<br /><br />As IPEG CFO, John is responsible for IPEG’s global shared service finance for all of the group companies including the Conair and Rapid brands as well as the newly acquired Thermal Care and Republic Machine brands . He reports directly to IPEG’s CEO.<br /><br />IPEG manufactures equipment for the global plastics processing, waste-recycling, and industrial heat transfer markets in facilities located in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Sweden, China, and India and has sales offices located in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, India, Singapore, Taiwan, and China. The group is privately held and employs over 600 people worldwide.<br /><br />John and his family live in Sewickley, PA, where they moved in 2008 from Rockford, IL.