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Management Team
T.S.
Designs’ success is due to our great team of people.
This picture was taken in front of the organic
co-op garden that we are creating on our property.
Our core management team guides this talented,
hard-working group of people to accomplish the almost
impossible. The four guys below bring over 50 years of
screenprinting, business management, and entrepreneurial
spirit to the company.
Tom
Sineath
, CEO, is a native of
Alamance
County
.
Tom attended
N.C.
State
University
in
Raleigh
,
where he received a B.A. in Environmental Design and
an M.A. in Product Design. He then returned to
Burlington
and founded T.S. Designs on
November
17, 1977
. Tom’s
main responsibilities at TSD include Finance, Human
Resources, and Maintenance. He is an active member of
Front
Street
United
Methodist
Church
and has served terms on the executive boards of the
United
Way
,
Child Care Resource and Referral of Alamance Co., and
Boy Scouts of America. He is an alumnus of Leadership
Alamance and was the county's 1991 Entrepreneur of the
Year. Email
Tom or reach him directly at 336-229-6426
x243.
Eric
Henry
, President, lived
in Burlington, NC, where he has lived for most of
his life. He attended both N.C. State University
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
but found he could not contain his entrepreneurial
spirit. While at UNC-CH, Eric started Creative
Screen Designs, which sold screenprinted t-shirts to
the college market. Before the start of his senior
year, Eric left to become a business partner with Tom Sineath
at T.S. Designs, Inc.
Eric devotes much of his time outside T.S. to
volunteer organizations. He serves on the board of
the
Specialty Graphic Imaging Association, where he
was the chairperson from 2001-2002, the
Board of Advisors for the Elon University Center for
Environmental Studies, Board of Directors for
Co-op America and as Advisory for
DENR's Environmental Stewardship Initiative.
His latest endeavor is
Local Action, LLC, dedicated
developing resources from his local community of
Alamance County to support that community. He is
on the board of
Company Shops Market Co-op
that wants to establish a co-op grocery to reconnect local agriculture to
the community.
He
was also instrumental in starting the
Burlington Biodiesel Co-op after experimenting
with biodiesel in a small batch reactor. Located at
the T.S. Designs plant, the Burlington Biodiesel
Co-op now produces over 200 gallons of biodiesel a
week.
Eric has served as a board member for the Burlington
Bicycle Advisory Board, Piedmont Land Conservancy,
Women's Resource Center, the
Board of Advisors for the Martha & Spencer Love
School of Business at Elon University
and the Alamance County Planning Board. While at
University of North Carolina, Eric was a member of
the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Email Eric
or reach him directly on his cell 336.675.6266.
He is asked to speak a lot on
T.S. Designs transition to a triple bottom line
business.
Quote: "I want to push the window of
sustainability in order to change the direction of the
American society."
- My views on the
2004 elections
- SGIA interview
-
Alamance
Magazine April 2006
-
Feature article in
Impressions November 2006
-
TreeHugger Interview March 2007
-
Grist Interview
May 2007
-
Grist Reader Q & A May 2007
-
Burlington
Times News Editorial July 2008
More image of Eric
http://eric.tsdesigns.com
Shannon Clark
, Plant
Operations,
has been at T.S. Designs for a
little over four years, starting out as a temporary
machine operator and working his way up quickly to his
current position, production supervisor.
Shannon
has been a resident of
Burlington
his entire life and graduated
Cummings
High
School
in 1992. He moonlights on the side as a magician,
performing at company functions and private parties.
Shannon
was inducted into the T.S.
Designs Squeegee Club in 1996. Email
Shannon or reach him
directly at 336-229-6426 x242.
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