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CONSULTANTS

THE EXPERTISE: ILMA’S CADRE OF CONSULTANTS
When ILMA staff and the Association’s members need better manage their businesses and succeed. ILMA’s
assistance with industry issues, ILMA’s consultants are the consultants are highly experienced industry veterans Jeffrey
ones they can lean on for the information they need — the Leiter, Matt Levetown, John Howell, Luc Girard and James
information that keeps ILMA and its members abreast of Eggenschwiler. These 5 experts keep this industry’s wheel
everything they need to know about how to stay compliant, of knowledge turning without a squeak.

Jeffrey L. Leiter Jeffrey L. Leiter, principal at Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd., is ILMA’s general counsel.
He’s been with the Association for nearly 40 years and is an indispensable font of knowledge
on pretty much everything. He writes regularly for ILMA’s trade magazine, Compoundings, in the
column Counsel Compound, covering all manner of potential legal issues that might affect ILMA’s
member companies, as well as giving updates on legislative and regulatory activity crucial to
thriving in business. He is also a frequent speaker at ILMA and other industry meetings.

Matthew J. Levetown Matthew J. Levetown, associate attorney at Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd., is ILMA’s
regulatory counsel. He works closely with ILMA’s Safety, Health, Environmental and Regulatory
Affairs (SHERA) and Metalworking Fluids Committees (MWF), and writes articles on regulatory
issues for ILMA’s trade magazine, Compoundings, in the column Washington Landscape. Levetown
earned his Juris Doctor degree in 2018 from the University of Virginia’s School of Law and his
undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech.

John Howell John Howell is president of GHS Resources Inc. Since 2014, he has been industry guru to the SHERA
and MWF Committees. He has nearly 40 years’ experience in the metalworking fluids business,
with over 20 of those relating to safety, health and environmental affairs. He works to provide
ILMA, its manufacturing members and their customers with detailed, up-to-date information
affecting them in those spaces.

Luc Girard Luc Girard is president of Sanjuro Consulting and ILMA’s testing program consultant, working
closely with the Ethics Committee and the Southwest Research Institute, which tests ILMA
member products. He ensures the testing program runs as smoothly as possible and maintains
impartiality. He is the one who harnesses the relationship between ILMA and product samplers
and testers. Girard regularly updates members on the testing program’s findings and important
industry issues at ILMA’s two yearly meetings.

James Eggenschwiler James Eggenschwiler is director of global trade for the Redstone Group, where he frequently serves
as primary liaison with government authorities on behalf of product manufacturers formulators and
distributors around the world. He is working closely with ILMA’s Global Affairs & Trade Committee.
Eggenschwiler has spent nearly 20 years building and directing in-country operations in Asia and
South America. On a more strategic level, he has helped lead trade and regulatory development
discussions on behalf of U.S. state governments with various international government agencies,
port authorities, and judicial and administrative enforcement bodies, including the Supreme
People’s Court and the Shanghai High People’s Court in the People’s Republic of China.

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