of Corporate Sales, Customer Care
NEW YORK, NY, Jan 10, 2023 – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) announced that Robert Karmelich will join the society as its new senior managing director of corporate sales and customer care. In this role, Karmelich will lead direct and third-party sales of ASME’s standards, technical journals and conferences, professional learning courses and other products and services to key customer segments in a variety of industries and educational and technical research communities. He will manage ASME’s sales staff and customer care teams and collaborate with business units, sales representatives, and resellers to meet aggressive revenue growth and customer satisfaction targets.
Robert Karmelich
“Robert brings to ASME deep experience in driving revenue growth in market-leading information services companies serving a wide range of the technology value chain,” says ASME chief operating officer Jeff Patterson. “He has achieved success throughout his career by understanding and delivering on the needs of customers and channel partners. He has identified and developed talent within his organizations and ensured that credit for success is shared by all. We believe he will make important contributions to ASME and our valued channel partners for many years to come.”
An experienced executive and sales leader, Karmelich has developed strategies and led teams to increase market share and sales volume in education technology, electronic commerce, information technology companies, and government organizations. Most recently, he served as CEO-USA of Design Science Inc./WIRIS of Long Beach, Calif., and Barcelona, Spain., a privately held math and science software company focused on academics, publishers, and government agencies. He is credited with increasing the company’s North American business by 20% each year from 2019 through 2021. Previously, he held sales executive positions of increasing responsibility over nearly a decade with SWETS of Runnemede, NJ, the world’s largest subscription agency.
About ASME
ASME helps the global engineering community develop solutions to real world challenges. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society. ASME codes and standards, publications, conferences, continuing education, and professional development programs provide a foundation for advancing technical knowledge and a safer world. In 2020, ASME formed the International Society of Interdisciplinary Engineers (ISIE) LLC, a new for-profit subsidiary to house business ventures that will bring new and innovative products, services, and technologies to the engineering community, and later established the holding company, Global Knowledge Solutions LLC. In 2021, ASME launched a second for-profit subsidiary, Metrix Connect LLC, an industry events and content platform to accelerate digital transformation in the engineering community and an agent for the Mechanical Engineering brand of media products.
For more information, visit www.asme.org.