Mark Porter

President / CEO

Mark is the President and founder of PMC. Mark started PMC in 1987 after being trained as a machinist. He initially focused on close tolerance aerospace machining and grew his business in this field, bootstrapping the company along the way. Mark's breakthrough came in 1993 when a local manufacturer of sputtering targets identified PMC as a machining subcontractor. PMC was a prime contractor for that company for four years and learned the requirements for machining a wide variety of sputtering targets. In 1996 PMC became a direct supplier to the market. Starting with the US glass coating market, PMC built up a small but loyal customer base through supplying high quality product at competitive prices and lead-times. In1999 PMC built a customer base in FPD (flat panel display) and established itself as a supplier of the turned targets used for magnetic storage in computer hard drives . In 2007 PMC is recognized as a specialist in large monolithic targets commonly used in the production of flat panel television and computer monitors.

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Rick Champion

Senior Vice President / Chief Systems Engineer

Rick is the Senior Vice President and Chief Systems Engineer for PMC. After completing his BSEE at Arizona State University in 1990, Rick joined PMC as a joint owner of the business. Initially, the growing business required his technical skills in machining and programming and later his position evolved into process and product development. In building PMC Rick worked closely with Mark to identify capital equipment, evaluate suppliers and subcontractors, and was the technical resource for the production area. He has taken on the role of developing the MIS and Quality Systems to track orders from the quoting stage through final inspection and invoicing. Currently Ricks role is that of Network administrator and Information Technology expert for our server based Corporation.

Lawrie Porter

Chief Financial Officer

Lawrie is the Chief Financial Officer of PMC as well as the Mother of the President and Senior Vice President of PMC. She graduated from ASU with a Bachelors degree in Early Elementary education. Her experience as a realtor led her to own her own business in Mortgage Brokering. Although Lawrie is still currently licensed as a Real Estate Broker in the state of Arizona, she elects to volunteer a large percentage of her time and expertise to the financial matters of PMC.

Most recently, Lawrie has taken on the task of becoming familiar with the Billing, Shipping and Job processing responsibilites of PMC. With ever increasing demands on this department, her involvement has quickly provided the cross trained personel to keep product flowing.