Manufacturing Council
Zachary Mottl
Zachary Mottl
Chief Alignment Officer, Atlas Tool and Die Works
Zachary Justin Mottl is the fourth generation of his family to own and operate Atlas Tool Works, Inc. The company, founded in 1918, is a world class precision manufacturing facility offering a broad array of metal manufacturing services. In his current role as Chief Alignment Officer (CAO) Zach works not only to improve business with new and current customers, but also to engage in outreach, develop strategy, and find operational improvements and alignment at Atlas and the family’s related businesses including Accushim Inc. and Abet Industries.
Zach is an advocate for the value and importance of domestic manufacturing in any healthy state or national economic model. He is serving a second term on the TMA Board of Directors and in 2013 Zach served as TMA’s 76th Chairman. At 35, Zach was the youngest chairman to serve the association. TMA is Illinois’ premier full-service manufacturing association with over 1000 member companies and 39,000 manufacturing employees at those companies. Zach is the Chairman of the TMA PAC and Government Relations Committee and recently completed a 2nd term on the Board of Trustees for the TMA Education Foundation Trust. The trust is a multimillion dollar education foundation established by industry to fund outreach, education, and promotion of careers in manufacturing.
Zach serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of Illinois at Chicago department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and works with the DOE funded UIC Energy Research Center. In 2005 he was elected to serve a 4-year term as Director of Government Affairs for the Illinois Defense & Homeland Security Association (IDHSA). Zach was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to the Taxpayer Action Board (TAB) in 2009. The same year he was appointed by Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso to his Economic Development Committee. Zach continues to serve on the Economic Development Committee of Burr Ridge.
In October of 2010 Zach was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to serve a two-year term on the Broadband Deployment Council of Illinois. Zach also serves on the Advisory Board for the American High Speed Rail Association (AHSRA) and is an advocate for the importance of high speed rail and intercity rail development in the US supported by domestic manufacturing of the HSR trains and related components.
In June of 2012, Zach was invited to give testimony before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. Zach testified in favor of the National Manufacturing Strategy act which passed in the US House of Representatives in 2012.
In July of 2013 Zach was invited to give testimony before the Subcommittee on Research and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Zach testified in favor of the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013 which passed the US House of Representatives in 2013.
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