National Association of Manufacturers CEO recently returned to roots Timmons Manufacturing is personal for Jay Timmons, CEO of $42 million-revenue, Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Manufacturers. "My grandfather stood in line during the Great Depression for six months to get a job at a manufacturing facility in Chillicothe, Ohio," Timmons told CEO Update. "He did that because he wanted to leave the farm. He knew that coming into manufacturing was a way to provide for his family and enter the emerging middle class." Last year, Timmons got a window on the late Harry Timmons' life when he traveled back to Chillicothe, to the former Mead Corp. plant where… Read More