As Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Hollingsworth Logistics Group, Steve has witnessed growth from a two person operation to a full service, multi-national logistics company. The growth has come both organically as well as through strong relationships with customers that ultimately led to successful joint venture operations that continue to this day.
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Although his days are filled with continuous improvement efforts to drive excellence into Hollingsworth's services, Steve is an active board member of the Native American Business Alliance. Participating in the decision making of the organization as an active board member, Barr also opens the doors of his corporations for the mentorship of aspiring Native American entrepreneurs. He enjoys guiding young Native Americans as they attempt to become a viable part of the American economy.
Jim LaPointe is the President and Co-Founder of Hollingsworth Logistics Group and its affiliate companies. LaPointe is responsible for providing the strategic direction of the corporation as well as orchestrating many key operational functions. His career at the company spans almost 20 years, with LaPointe holding various Senior Executive positions. Nearly every day, he is reminded of the days when HLG was comprised of two rented desks and a telephone.
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His career has had primary focus on understanding inefficiencies in the logistics marketplace and promoting the benefits of lean warehousing and strategic distribution to customers. Prior to co-founding HLG, he was President of Butcher Engineering – US in Detroit, Michigan, Executive Vice President of Operations at King Bearing in Costa Mesa, California, and Vice President of Operations at Detroit Ball Bearing where he began his career in 1963. Born and raised in Detroit, LaPointe earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Loras College. In addition to his responsibilities at HLG, LaPointe serves on several corporate boards.
Mike is the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Financial Officer for Hollingsworth Logistics Group. Mike leads the administrative, finance and information technology operations for all operations within the company. Prior to working at Hollingsworth, Mike was a senior manager at Price Waterhouse LLP and received his B.B.A from Michigan State University.
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Mike is also a founding member of the Father Vincent Welch Fund, a 503 9c organization that has raised over $2.0 million for scholarships and athletics at University of Detroit Mercy and Loyola High School. Mike is also active in several other charitable organizations. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Detroit Mercy and is the chairperson of the Finance Committee.
Martha joined the staff at Hollingsworth as the Controller in 1993. At that time, there were two companies and 25 employees. She has had the exciting opportunity to watch the organization grow to over 1,300 employees.
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Before coming to HLM, she worked in the Human Resources Department at Joseph Mercy Hospital in Kokomo, Indiana, and as an Accountant at Glasser and Associates, PC in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Martha has been a BBA in Accounting, from Western Michigan University and an MBA in Corporate Financial Reporting from Eastern Michigan University.
George Mimikos has been with Hollingsworth Logistics Group since 2005 serving as the Vice President of Sales. Since joining the team, he has been responsible for growing HLG's North American customer base in both the automotive and government sectors.
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Further, for all new business awarded, his responsibility included the successful launch of the associated programs and facilities.
Prior to joining Hollingsworth, Mimikos was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Digitron Packaging and served in the Accounting, Financial Analysis and Purchasing groups at Ford Motor Company.
He received a Business degree from Lawrence Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Detroit.
Wayne Richards is the Vice President of Facilities responsible for the oversight of more than 4 million square feet of operational space and equipment. He focuses his efforts on energy management, the acquisition and leasing of facilities and equipment...
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...new facility launches, and various management roles as a member of the executive team.
Wayne started his career with Ford Motor Co. of Canada, in Materials Management. After 10 years with Ford, Wayne spent six years as a Realtor in Florida. In 1992 he joined Butcher Engineering Enterprise, now Hollingsworth Logistics Group.
Wayne attended St.Clair College and the University of Windsor, earning a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
In 1991, Chris began his career with Hollingsworth in Garden Grove, California, as the Manager of West Coast operations. In 1996, he transferred to the Dearborn, Michigan headquarters as the Manager of corporate facilities.
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In 2000 he again transferred to a newly created division, Modular Automotive Systems, a joint venture between HLG and Magna International to assemble and sequence automotive parts into the local OEM assembly plants. Chris graduated from Essex Community College in Baltimore, Maryland and also has an AA in Administration and Management.
Dennis Walton brings over 20 years of operational management experience to the Hollingsworth Logistics Group. Responsibilities ranging from being the founder of a start up business to managing...
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...quality control and customer service groups.
Before Joining the Hollingsworth Logistics Group, Mr. Walton served as president of a national distribution company serving the automotive industry with customer locations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Mr. Walton’s experience also includes sales of automated MRO dispensing machines with web based software technology.Mr. Walton enjoys volunteering for youth sports activities and other community related endeavors.
Mr. Walton earned a BSBA degree Majoring in Finance from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan.
Chip Quarrier was named Executive Director, Strategic Marketing and Development, at Hollingsworth Logistics Group in September 2010. In this role he is responsible for establishing new, and optimizing...
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...current business alliances as well as leading development efforts within the various markets which HLG serves.
Prior to his current position, he was the Director of sales at The Woodbridge Group where he was successful in ensuring optimal revenues performance and served as a Strategy Consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in its Automotive Practice.
Quarrier received a Bachelor of Science degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and a master of Business Administration degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Since Joining HLM in 1993 Matt has served in several different roles and has seen a once small company grow into a leading service provider to the Automitive Industry. Over his 17 years with the company Matt has gained extensive experience in warehouse, packagain, transportation, operational logistics, and is also a certified ISO auditor.
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He currently serves as Director of Operations at HLM and oversees the daily operations at HLM facilities in Dearborn MI, and San Antonia TX.
Matt has earned BA degrees in Business Administration and Finance from Ferris State University
Ed Cheff began his professional career in the United States Navy and at the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He then began his manufacturing and automotive career and became educated in quality assurance disciplines, statistical process control, quality management, ISO requirements and ISO auditing.
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At Hollingsworth, Cheff has been responsible for the company achieving many accolades such as two Ford Q1 awards and ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications. With 22 years of experience in the packaging business, Ed clearly knows the definition of quality for our service offerings.
Chris McIntosh started at Hollingsworth in March of 1998. He started as the HR specialist shortly after receiving his Master’s Degree in Human Resources from Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan. Chris Worked at Ford Motor Company for the summers of 1991-1994 and full-time from 1994-1998.
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At Hollingsworth, Chris has held multiple positions including HR specialist, Traffic and Receiving Manager, HR Manager and ultimately his latest Directorship.
Don held multiple positions at Ford Motor Company early in his career, including Owner Relations Analyst, Service Zone Manager, Part Zone Manager, and finally Warranty Specialist where he created the concept of having dealerships perform their own warranty audits.
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Relocating to Michigan, he worked with artificial intelligence programmers to clone the self-review processes, which Ford now utilizes globally in many different languages. Don was moved to Service Parts Operations for the second part of his career, he was tasked with putting together an organization to handle service parts from design to availability in order to support critical timing on recall, field fixes and new model launches. This evolved into a department that handled all critical parts, including backordered parts and vehicle down issues. Kaercher ran the Critical Parts Department until his retirement from Ford in 2007. He joined the HLM team later that year as Director Of Material Flow, his current position.
Don has over thirty years of experience in parts, service, and customer relations. He earned his BA from Rutgers University
Chris works with internal and external customers regarding price changes and inventory reductions. During her 12 years with HLG Chris has worked in several different areas including accounting, warehouse scheduling, material movement and customer service.
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Chris is also an internal ISO auditor and works with the divisions of HLG to monitor and continuously improve the quality systems.
Chris received her BBA from WMU and her MBA from Walsh college.
Mickey joined Hollingsworth Logistics Group in 1999 and changed his career path from mainframes to PC client/server based software. He has since been promoted to Executive Director of Information Technology responsible for HLG's infrastructure as well as...
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...the development, deployment and continuous improvement of our SAP business enterprise system solution.
Currently, the IT department is in the final stages of migration from a legacy SBT application to SAP 6.0 ECC.
Reynolds graduated from Henry Ford Community College in 1975.
Mahmoud Alabbasi started at Hollingsworth in February of 2001. He started as the Production Supervisor and worked his way up to Production Manager, Purchasing Manager and Director of Operations. He maintains an active day-day involvement with his team to insure that all of our customers receive an excellent service
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As Director of Purchasing, Drew is responsible for all of Hollingsworth Logistics Group's daily purchases as well as long term agreement programs with its suppliers. He has over 25 years in all aspects of Packaging, Warehousing and Distribution including buying positions, quoting, standards, lean manufacturing and operations.
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Zuhlke graduated from Michigan Statte University with a Bachelor or Science in Packaging Engineering.
Bill is responsible for the management and metrics of Hollingsworth's USPS facilities. Bill joins HLG with 11 years of experience at American Axle & Manufacturing, as the Business Unit Manager for AAM After Market.
learn morePrior to AAM, Bill gained 25 years of experience at Ford Motor Company, in the areas of finance, sales, marketing and operations.
Bill has both a BBA and MBA from Central Michigan University.