ASME Selects Thomas Costabile as New Executive Director

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Board of Governors has selected Thomas Costabile as ASME’s next Executive Director.

Tom is an accomplished executive, with a strong track record of delivering outstanding results for large, global organizations, and leading organizations through significant change.

Tom began his career as a mechanical engineer working on a joint venture between Gibbs & Hill and Ammann & Whitney, focused on the development of nuclear reactors. After several years, Tom joined CBS Records to oversee the development of their compact disc manufacturing and distribution operations. Over the following twenty years, Tom earned leadership roles in the music distribution industry, including serving as SVP, Operations for SONY music with P&L responsibility in excess of $400M, and then as President, WEA Manufacturing-Warner Music Group, with a P&L responsibility of over $3B, and a staff of over 4,000.

Most recently, Tom served as a Consultant at Carlan Advisors and as Partner at 3essential, LLC, where he advised boards, senior executives, private equity sponsors and investors. In these roles, he was successful in analyzing businesses and developing strategic initiatives to ensure profitability, as well as implementing and monitoring projects to profitability.

Tom has served on several not-for-profit boards, including Board Chair of the Montgomery Academy and Board Member Emeriti of University of Oregon Foundation.

Tom received his BSME (with Honors) from Manhattan College and an MBA in Finance (with Honors) from Long Island University.

Tom is an outstanding, results-oriented, leader. The Board and I are confident that he is the right person to lead us as we move forward, together. Tom’s first day in the office will be May 21^st.

On behalf of the entire ASME community, I’d also like to acknowledge and thank Phil Hamilton for serving as Interim Executive Director during the last six months. We are grateful to Phil for his steady hand and his service to ASME.

Please join me in welcoming Tom to ASME and offering our thanks and best wishes to Phil.

The Board and I are so excited about the future. We hope you are too.

Charla K. Wise ASME President