March 12, 2020
Former NSK Americas CEO Steve Beckman to Join Board of Aetna Bearings
Livonia, Michigan – Aetna Bearings Company (“ABC”), a portfolio company of the Stratford-Cambridge Group, is proud to announce that Steve Beckman will be joining its Board of Managers. Steve retired from NSK in 2019 as Regional CEO for the Americas. He joined NSK in 2009 as the VP of Automotive Bearings North America which included 6 bearing plants. He was promoted to SVP Americas in 2013, with responsibility for all of NSK’s Americas Automotive Bearing business, plants and Technology Centers in N.A. and Brazilian. In 2014, he became President of NSK Corporation adding NSK’s Industrial businesses to his responsibilities and then finally CEO in 2016.
“Steve brings a wealth of experience from his prior role running the NSK business in the Americas and will be a great addition to the board. We look forward to working with him to grow a 100-year old American manufacturing company,” said Stephen Ellis, Founder and Managing Director of the Stratford-Cambridge Group.