All About Ocean Machinery

Hunter Fry is the President and Founder of Ocean Machinery. Hunter has been in the metal fabricating industry since 1973.  Prior to starting Ocean Machinery, Hunter  worked for major manufacturers of structural steel fabrication machines. He then started his own machine tool dealership in Chicago. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and the American Graduate School of International Management.  His engineering experience brings knowledge of production techniques from around the globe to your shop. Hunter heads up our Florida, Georgia and Caribbean Sales Force.

As the Vice President of Ocean Machinery, Danny Steyn handles the Marketing of Ocean Machinery, the introduction of new products, and is responsible for the extensive Ocean Avenger Dealer Network that covers the USA, Canada and Caribbean Islands selling the Ocean Avenger Beam Drill Line. Danny is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from the University of Natal in Durban South Africa. Danny has over 20 years of manufacturing and engineering experience in a wide range of industries. He has extensive post graduate training in productivity and efficiency optimization.

Our Sales Manager, Darryl Thornhill has an undergraduate degree in Marketing from Virginia Tech with a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Radford University.  His previous experience includes extensive sales and marketing with General Electric, Tyco International, AT&T Capital and NCR Corporation, where he excelled in sales and capital equipment financing of technology hardware, software and services. Darryl is responsible for the support of the Ocean Avenger Dealer Network covering the entire USA selling the Ocean Avenger Beam Drill Line.

Todd Eccless joins our North American sales team with several years of sales experience in metal fabricating machinery and other capital equipment as well as contract manufacturing. Todd has a degree in computer engineering from Brown College, MN, and previous experience as a hardware and network support specialist.  Todd joins Darryl Thornhill and together they are responsible for the Ocean Avenger Dealer Network & selling the Ocean machines including the Ocean Avenger Beam Drill Line Ocean Avenger Beam Drill Line.

Armand Reyes is our Inside Sales Team Champion and handles our tremendous volume of Internet Sales. Armand has extensive international and US Sales and Marketing experience in a broad range of mechanical and industrial fields, and this knowledge along with his friendly positive approach makes him a great asset to Ocean Machinery. Armand is fluent in Spanish and English and in his spare time umpires games for a youth baseball league.

Calvin Taylor joined Ocean Machinery straight out of college. While studying Business Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee he obtained extensive experience in the automotive sales and marketing fields.  Calvin brings an energetic, easy going personality to our growing team. Together Calvin and Armand are responsible for inside sales of machinery, parts and consumables to our worldwide customer base.

Folker Krebs  is another tri-lingual addition to Ocean Machinery. Fluent in English Spanish and German, Folker handles our South Florida machinery sales. A mechanical engineering graduate from Venezuela, Folker immigrated to the USA in 2004. His deep experience in the steel fabricating industry as well as the machinery industry, in all aspects, from manufacturing, sales, service and support, makes him very knowledgeable in all aspects of the huge variety of machines he sells.

Jeff Sobel is Ocean Machinery's Director of Sales and Business
Development for Latin America, and is responsible for the development and support of the Latin America Ocean Dealer network. Jeff has held numerous roles in global business development with companies both large and small. Over the course of his career, Jeff  has travelled extensively through  Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Jeff has an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona and completed part of his MBA at Brazil's Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ COPPEAD). He earned his bachelor's degree in International Business from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jeff's Portuguese and Spanish language skills are invaluable to this position.

Luis Pena is our wonderfully enthusiastic and competent Service Engineer. Luis previously worked at HAAS Automation on their full range of CNC machinery including their latest 5-axis machines. Luis is fully conversant with both PLC and PC controlled CNC equipment. Prior to HAAS, Luis was a project manager at a automated beverage canning and bottling plant where keeping the machines in perfect order for the 24 hour 3-shift production was his top priority. Luis Studied Electronic Engineering at DeVry University in New Jersey.

Karen Castorina is our Director of First Impressions, and is the wonderful helpful voice you hear when you call our offices. Karen handles all our Office Management and assists in Internal Sales. Karen is the glue that holds the company together. 

Terry Kuczynski comes to us with many years of customer service experience and is the new voice you hear answering your call.  She provides Office Support and assists with sales, quotes, and account maintenance. Her enthusiasm and customer focus make a tremendous contribution to our rapidly growing team.