RICHMOND, VA — Ross Sandlin has joined AMF Bakery Systems, a leading global supplier for bakery equipment and complete system solutions, as director of sales for the Americas. Sandlin will work alongside Guillaume Joly, both as leaders supporting sales of AMF’s growing portfolio of bakery solutions for soft bread and bun, artisan bread, pizza and flatbread, cake and pie, as well as pastry and croissant production.
Reporting to Jason Ward, president of AMF, Sandlin will be responsible for leading the company’s efforts to provide automation solutions to bakery customers in the Americas across all AMF product group technologies, including dough systems, makeup systems, proofing, baking, cooling and freezing solutions, product and pan conveyors, as well as packaging and post-packaging automation.
“Ross is a highly experienced and effective sales leader with an exceptional track record of cultivating customer relationships and developing high-performance sales teams,” said Jason Ward, president of AMF Systems.
“Ross is a highly experienced and effective sales leader with an exceptional track record of cultivating customer relationships and developing high-performance sales teams,” said Ward. “We are eager for him to join our leadership team as we better position AMF as the automation partner of choice for commercial bakeries.”
Sandlin earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Colorado. He brings more than 20 years of engineering and sales leadership experience in industrial manufacturing companies. He spent the past 13 years at Festo and was most recently a sales director in Europe focusing on food manufacturing and packaging for end customers.