ON Partners Recruits Board Members for Artisan Industries
October 28, 2026 – Partners Seth Harris and Shawn Oglesbee of ON Partners have assisted in the recruitment of Stephen S. Schwartz and Gary A. Doyon as new members of the board of directors of Artisan Industries.
The addition of two independent directors strengthens the company’s governance and strategic leadership, as Artisan expands its core technologies into high-growth markets, including specialty chemicals, PFAS removal, drug development, and steam ejectors for power generation. “Stephen and Gary bring energy and wisdom to the board as we seek to capture timely opportunities in high-growth markets while integrating recent acquisitions,” said Mark Miller, CEO of Artisan Industries. “Stephen has built and led global technology businesses through periods of rapid growth and transformation, and Gary has spent his career scaling industrial manufacturing operations and integrating acquisitions across a large group of companies. As we bring our Artisan, JetVac, and Unique Systems capabilities together into a unified platform, their combined judgment in operations, strategy and governance will help us continue to exceed our customers’ expectations.”
Dr. Schwartz brings more than three decades of executive leadership across advanced manufacturing automation and life sciences. He served as president and CEO of Azenta, Inc. (formerly Brooks Automation, Inc.) from 2010 to 2024, where he led the company’s 2022 separation into two independent businesses — Azenta, serving the life sciences market, and Brooks Automation, serving the semiconductor industry. Earlier in his career he was president, CEO and chairman of Asyst Technologies and president of Consilium Inc., an Applied Materials company, and began his career at Applied Materials.
“I am excited to have the opportunity to join the Artisan board, and I look forward to supporting Mark and his team as they continue to leverage their long history of providing dependable, enabling technologies to their customers while pursuing significant growth opportunities,” said Dr. Schwartz.
Mr. Doyon brings deep operating and financial leadership in industrial manufacturing and thermal processing. He served as president and CEO of the Inductotherm Group, a global family of companies in induction heating, melting and thermal processing, where he held full profit-and-loss responsibility and served on the boards of approximately 30 group companies; he was also chairman of Inductoheat, Inc. and Thermatool Corp. Over a career with the group dating to 1986, Mr. Doyon advanced from U.S. sales and plant leadership at Thermatool to running its multi-company welding and heating-and-welding groups before assuming the top role in 2010. He continues to serve on the group’s family board, where he guides its strategic vision and mentors the next generation of leadership.
“Artisan has long been a customer centric, highly engineered product of great quality,” said Mr. Doyon. “Helping them achieve some forward-looking goals with that solid foundation appeals to me and leverages my business experience sensibility.”
Related: ON Partners Recruits CEO for nView Health
Founded in 1934 and headquartered in Stoughton, MA, Artisan Industries is an engineering and manufacturing company specializing in thermal-separation technologies for the chemical and fine-chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences, food and flavors, petrochemical, polymer, renewables, and recycling and waste-processing markets.
Proven Search Firm
With a primary focus on technology, consumer, industrial, and the life science sectors, ON Partners recruits C-level and board talent for public and private companies, as well as venture capital and private equity firms. Founded in 2006, the firm’s consultants work from offices in Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas; Menlo Park, CA; Minneapolis. MN; San Francisco; and New York. ON Partners was named one of the fastest growing search firms this year by Hunt Scanlon Media. The firm is now ranked as one of the 20 largest search firms in the nation.
ON Partners Recruits CFO for Fortera
Partners Josh Nathanson and Chris Clements along with principal Alexis Rohe of ON Partners have placed Albert Luu as the new CFO of cement manufacturer Fortera in San Jose, CA. “Fortera is at a stage where the work we’ve done to prove the technology now has to be matched by our ability to finance and execute at scale,” said Ryan Gilliam, CEO and co-founder of Fortera. “Albert has navigated exactly this kind of inflection point before in industries where the path from demonstrated technology to commercial platform required an evolving strategy that attracts the necessary capital for each stage of deployment. His track record is precisely what this next chapter calls for. And putting Scott’s deal-making expertise into a dedicated origination role means we’re building the kind of commercial and capital pipeline that a company at this stage needs to move fast.”
Mr. Harris has 20-plus years of retained executive search experience and focuses on the technology sector including SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, managed services, and IoT. He has over 375 completed executive searches across technology and enterprise functions. Mr. Harris’ clients range from late stage VC- backed, mid-cap, growth / private equity to global multinational organizations.
Mr. Oglesbee co-founded ON Partners, leading executive search strategy in the semiconductor and photonics sectors with over 250 successful placements across his 25-plus-year career. He previously served as managing partner at CTPartners, becoming the youngest Managing Partner in the firm’s 30-year history and earning multiple awards for client satisfaction during his nine-year tenure.
Related: ON Partners Recruits Chief Medical Officer for Sangamo Therapeutics
Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor — Hunt Scanlon Media
