David joined Global Metal Finishing in 2010. He has worked in the manufacturing business for over 40 years and holds a vast array of knowledge - including management, quality and customer service. David has been an integral part in the growth of Global Metal Finishing. He continues to work closely with our customers to ensure customer satisfaction through quality, consistency, responsibility, and respect. He has been married for 44 years, has one child and a grandchild.

"Motivated risk taker", "Entrepreneurial spirit", "Passionate about manufacturing" and "Mechanically inclined" are a few phrases that describe Tamea Franco. In early 1980, Tamea took up a “trade” and attended The Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking in Queens, NY. The skills she gained in watchmaking and watch repair moved her career into repairing and creating gold jewelry and diamond settings. After attending a Gemological Institute of America (GIA) program she was encouraged to attend a creative school in Gatlinburg, TN that would further feed her yearning to learn more about mechanical ingenuity and metals. This was where Tamea discovered her new passion: an electrochemical process called "anodizing". Her fascination with the process led her to open, in 1987, Roanoke’s first female-owned custom metal finishing business: East West DyeCom/Global Metal Finishing, Inc.