Thomas J. DeWitt

Tom DeWitt is a partner in and president and CEO of Swanson Industries Inc., a manufacturing, re-manufacturing, metal finishing, engineered products, and distribution company headquartered in Morgantown, with 10 operating companies in the United States and one joint venture company in Shanghai, China.

He started his career in 1968 working evenings at Morgantown Machine & Hydraulics while studying mechanical engineering at West Virginia University. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1971 and received a master's degree in 1972. He became part owner of Swanson Industries in 2000, and under the leadership of DeWitt and his partners Swanson has grown nearly 10-fold since 1995 and now has 742 employees. Swanson Industries serves numerous markets including the coal industry, the off-road equipment industry, the steel industry, and the offshore drilling industry. DeWitt is also senior managing director of, and a partner in, Tiefenbach North America LLC, a Morgantown, W.Va., joint venture that provides electro-hydraulic controls and other products for the mining industry.