Mark Lamoncha

Mark Lamoncha is President and CEO of Humtown Products, a third-generation family-owned advanced manufacturer in Columbiana, Ohio, and the 2026 U.S. Small Business Administration National Small Business Person of the Year. Under his leadership, Humtown grew from a traditional pattern shop into a national leader in 3D-printed sand cores and molds for the foundry industry. An inventor, author, and TEDx speaker, Mark patented the Visual Earnings System™, which carries data from the quote through the plant’s control systems to show each operator their earning rate in real time, cycle by cycle. That feedback has produced productivity gains of up to tenfold on some jobs and cut scrap rates from as high as 10 percent to as low as 2 percent. Humtown is now testing camera-based AI that suggests movement improvements to operators. Mark believes the best results come when the intelligence in the machine meets the intelligence in the people running it. He is co-author of The Industrial Athlete Ope