Background
Modery, Richard Gillman was born on September 20, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Richard Gustave Modery and Betty Jane (Gillman) Modery Perok.
Modery, Richard Gillman was born on September 20, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Richard Gustave Modery and Betty Jane (Gillman) Modery Perok.
Student, Joliet (Illinois) Junior College, 1959-1961; student, Aurora (Illinois) College, 1963-1965; student, Davenport Business College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1969-1971; student, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1987.
Engineer, projects engineer, projects manager, marketing products manager Rapistan, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1964—1975. Manager estimating, project management, customer service E.W. Buschman Company, Cincinnati, 1975—1978. Vice president distributing sales, vice president engineering and sales, executive vice president Metzgar Conveyor Company, Grand Rapids, 1979—1984.
Managing director Metzco Internat (Central and South America), 1981—1984, Transfer Technologies, Inc., Grand Rapids, 1984—1987. General partner, president, Chief Executive Officer National Monument Company, 1986—1989. Vice president Translogic Corporation, Denver, 1987—1988.
Corporation officer, vice president marketing, field operations and sales Staten Island Handling Systems, Inc., Easton, Pennsylvania, 1988—1991. Vice president marketing, sales and engineering Integrated Material Handling Company, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1991—1993. President Handling Concepts, Inc., Chicago, 1993—2006, Modery Systems, Inc., Chicago, 1997—2005.
Retired, 2006
Agent Muratic-Murata Automated Systems, Inc., 1997—2000. With United States National Guard, 1963-1969.
Board directors Naperville Humane Society, Illinois, 2001—2005, member finance and revenue generating committee. Commissioner Traffic Commission City of East Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1983—1986. Member International Material Management Society, American Management Association, Material Handling Institute American, Material Handling Institute (speaker national conferences), American Marketing Association, Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association, Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association, Mason (32 degree).
Married Kay Francis Whitby, July 31, 1966 (divorced July 1977). Children: Stacey Lynn, Marci Kay. Married Anne-Marie Lucette Arsenault, February 27, 1979.