As of October 2023, Jacques Cartier leads the Des-Case organization as President. Prior to that time, Jacques served as Chief Financial Officer from 2018 to 2023, guiding it in all financial aspects through three post merger integrations and Covid. Before joining Des-Case, Jacques had over 20 years’ experience in leading the finance and accounting function and organizations on senior management teams.

More recently, he was CFO of a fast-growing, privately held engineering, procurement and construction firm in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at the Mars company holding various divisional CFO roles, specifically Wrigley Spain, Wrigley US, and Mars Petcare Private Label Division. Jacques holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Northern Illinois University, earned an MBA with a concentration in International Business and IT from DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Management, and a CPA (inactive).

Jacques is a board member of the Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee, the non-profit Conexion Americas, as well as the CFO Leadership Council of Nashville. In 2022, he won the small business CFO of the Year Award from the Business Journal. He enjoys the outdoors as an accomplished competitive cyclist and a runner.

Menno Krom, Managing Director – RMF Systems, a subsidiary of Des-Case, is a sales management professional with more than 15 years of driving sales in the hydraulic, filtration and lubrication business. Menno started his career at RMF Systems BV in 2006 as Sales Manager Export, then in 2012, began leading the sales activities of RMF Systems. In 2020, he became Managing Director. Prior to joining RMF Systems, Menno held various sales management positions at Numatics, CMF Special Welding and Doedijns Hydraulics.

Menno holds an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Fontys University of Applied Sciences, an Associate Master in Sales Management, Associate Master in Strategic Sales Management and Associate Master in Business Development from NCIO Business School.

As Sr. Director of Global Product, Jay leads the global product strategy as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for the company’s Product Management, Research & Development, New Product Development, Product Engineering and Product Support business functions & teams.

Jay joined Des-Case in 2011 and in his tenure at Des-Case has held roles in both commercial and operational capacities.

Jay holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management & Economics, with a minor in Accounting from Muskingum University. He resides in Nashville, TN with his wife and son.

Mark Barnes leads the company’s reliability services team, helping customers identify opportunities for improvements to their industrial lubrication programs through training, consulting and product solutions. Mark has 25 years of experience in the fields of lubrication management, oil analysis, and contamination control, and has published more than 175 technical articles and whitepapers. Mark is frequently invited to share his subject matter expertise at conferences around the globe and has worked with a number of blue chip companies, including Chevron, DuPont, Alcoa, ExxonMobil, Goodyear, Cargill, International Paper, General Mills and the U.S. Army to extend asset life through precision lubrication.

Prior to joining Des-Case, Mark was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Services for Noria Corporation, a global leader in lubrication and oil analysis training and consulting. Mark holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP).