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2021 C-SUITE Honoree Jason Howey

President & CEO, OKAY Industries, Inc.

Jason Howey

OKAY Industries Inc. President & CEO

Size of organization: 395 employees

Education: University of Maryland, BA in Economics. Harvard Business School, Owner-President Management program.

2021 C-SUITE Honorees

 

What do you do in your current job?

OKAY Industries works with large medical device companies supplying patient-critical components and assemblies. Many of the parts we make are for life-changing surgical procedures or are implanted in the body, so the quality of what we supply must be perfect.

My main areas of focus are on building a positive culture, working on the recruitment and retention of a top-notch workforce, working on strategy/vision/mission with the senior team and board of directors, identifying ways to utilize technology to make us smarter, better, and faster and looking at ways that we can continue to differentiate ourselves from the competition.

What have been your biggest professional accomplishments over the past year?

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Navigating the company through COVID; leading our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategy with the formulation of our DEI committee; investment and expansion of our Nextech Labs facilities; and helping to raise more than $600,000 with the New Britain School System for the new Manufacturing, Engineering & Technology Academy.

In what ways are you involved in the community?

I serve on several nonprofit boards, including Hartford HealthCare Central Region and ReadyCT.

What’s your guiding business principle?

 Nothing is worth compromising your integrity.