Jason LaRose

Jason brings 26 years of manufacturing experience to the job, with 16 of those years in leadership. He started at 19 running a drill press in a small family-owned machine shop, where a handful of older machinists mentored him and pointed out something he never forgot: a generation of skilled people was heading toward retirement, and there weren't enough young people ready to step in. After spending 9 years as a machinist, Jason was offered the chance to be mentored by a plant manager at a specialty fastener manufacturer. Within a year, that manager retired, and Jason took over the role. From there his career took him through machining, medical device, nuclear, automotive, and aerospace work before he landed in metal finishing, driven the whole way by an obsession with understanding how things work and a knack for breaking down complicated processes into something anyone can follow.

What drew Jason to NEE wasn't just the industry, it was the culture. He chose the company because of its morale and its ethics, and he holds firmly to the belief that people should be treated fairly and with kindness, without ever losing the drive to get the job done well.

Jason lives with his wife and daughter in Cumberland, RI, and outside of work you'll usually find him behind a drum kit. He's been playing for 16 years and loves jamming with his daughter and supporting her music lessons and her band. He also spent over 30 years studying martial arts, years he spent teaching and mentoring students, which is where his pull toward leadership first took root. Jason is an inventor as well. He designed and patented the EZ-AC air conditioner support bracket, ran it through a successful production and sales run for a number of years, and eventually sold it to Black and Decker. If he weren't running a plant, he'd be producing music, making art, digging into science, doing activism work, or chasing whatever new creative idea caught his attention next.