Bio – Eric Henry
Eric Henry, president of TS Designs, is one-half of the dynamic duo that owns TSD. Alongside his business partner and TSD CEO Tom Sineath, Eric has been in the screenprinting business for over 30 years.
Though schmoozing is his specialty, Eric’s duties at TSD range from sales to operations to PR. He is the foremost public face of TS Designs, attending nearly every trade show and event at which the company has a presence, and his boundless enthusiasm and energy have gained him a certain level of notoriety at most of them, even winning him the Sustainability Champion award from Sustainable North Carolina in 2009.
Outside of TS Designs, Eric devotes much of his time volunteer organizations, serving on the boards of several community associations. He founded the Burlington Biodiesel Co-op and has run his car on biodiesel (or straight vegetable oil) since 2004. His latest project is working to establish Company Shops Market in downtown Burlington, a local co-op grocery whose goal is to reconnect local agriculture to Alamance County. In 2010 he will be serving on the board of both the Alamance County Chamber of Commerce, and the Burlington Downtown Corporation.
Eric was born in Radford, Virginia. When he was 3, he moved to Burlington, NC, where he has lived for most of his life since. He attended NC State University for 2 years, then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC-CH, Eric founded Creative Screen Designs, a screenprinting operation dedicated to the college market. Before the start of his senior year at Chapel Hill, Eric left school to join Tom Sineath as co-owner of TS Designs, Inc.
Quote: “I want to push the window of sustainability in order to change the direction of the American society.”
Links:
- My Views on the 2004 Elections
- SGIA Interview
- Alamance Magazine Article
- Impressions Magazine Feature Article
- TreeHugger Interview
- Grist Interview and Reader Q&A
- Burlington Times News Editorial
- Manufacturing and Selling a $4 T-shirt in a $2 World