The Manufacturer & Business Association (MBA) recently announced its 2025-2026 Board of Governors.
Chairman Matt Clark is the vice president and general manager of Humes Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram in Waterford. An Erie native and Gannon University graduate, Clark began working part time at Humes while attending college and worked his way up to a salesperson and eventually sales manager, then general manager. He became an owner and vice president in 1999. Clark is an owner and president of Humes Ford of Corry. Humes has grown into one of the largest Chrysler Jeep Dodge and Ram dealers in the entire tri-state region.
In addition to the automobile business, Clark, along with Bob and Greg Humes, formed Southland Development and developed the land and created the Southland Village subdivision, now having 103 completed homes.
Clark is very active in the community, supporting multiple charities and nonprofits, and chairing many fundraisers and capital campaigns for the Inner City Neighborhood Art House, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, American Heart Association, Crime Victim Center of Erie County, Sisters of St. Joseph Neighborhood Network. Clark is very proud to be a founding benefactor and active supporter of Warriors to Washington and board member of the Oliver Hazard Perry Shipyard Foundation.
Clark is also president of the Erie County Automobile Dealer Association and past chairman of the Pennsylvania Auto Association.
Clark and Humes Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram were named the prestigious TIME Magazine Pennsylvania Dealer of the Year in 2019. Additionally, Clark was inducted into the Cathedral Prep Presidents Hall of Fame in 2019, and received a special Congressional Certificate of Recognition for Community Involvement, along with a PA House of Representatives citation for service to the community. Clark and his wife Karen have three children, Rachel, Elena and Mitchell.
Clark is joined on the MBA Board of Governors Executive Committee by Vice Chairman Jennifer Nelson, senior vice president of Supply Chain for Airborn; Treasurer Tom Tredway, president of Erie Molded Packaging; Secretary Tammy Lamary-Toman, vice president and employment attorney, MBA; Lori Joint, president and CEO, MBA; and, Immediate Past Chairman Bob Frost, vice president of Commodity Management, Wabtec Corporation.
New Board member appointed to a three-year term is:
Andrew C. Renkey, president of Harmony Castings, which is located Harmony, Pennsylvania.
Renkey earned a Bachelor of Science in business from Grove City College in 1987. Upon graduation, Renkey was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He completed two tours of duty with honors and was promoted to the rank of Major before transitioning his career into the manufacturing industry with Ford Motor Company.
During the next 15 years, Renkey served in various management positions of increasing responsibility in fortune 500 manufacturing industries across the United States and Canada. In 2011, Renkey shifted from working in large manufacturing organizations to operational and then general management with a smaller, privately owned manufacturing organization known as Ligon Industries.
He is currently the president of Ligon’s V-process Foundry Group, with companies located in the Greater Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New York and Youngstown, Ohio areas. He has led employee teams in both union and nonunion environments, with experience in UAW, CAW, Teamsters, IBEW, and USW represented shops.
Renkey maintains professional affiliations with the Penn State University Metal Casting Advisory Committee, Grove City College’s Mechanical Engineering External Advisory Board, the American Foundry Society, where he was a national board member (2020-2024), and the Non-Ferrous Founders’ Society, where he sat as a member of the board from 2020-2023. He continues to serve on ITAC-5, an industry trade advisory committee on critical minerals and non-ferrous metals, jointly managed by the USTR and the Department of Commerce.
Additional members of the MBA Board of Governors include Chad Betts, president and CEO of Betts Industries, Inc.; Scott Bonnell, owner of Bonnell’s Auto Sales; Gary Clark, CEO of Reed Manufacturing Co.; Jon DeArment, executive vice president of Manufacturing and Engineering at Channellock, Inc.; Jana Goodrich, CEO of Seaway Manufacturing Corp.; Chuck Jenkins, president of E.E. Austin & Son, Inc.; Jeff Plyler, CEO and president of Plyler Entry Systems, Inc.; and Tricia Staible, president and general counsel of Robinson Fans, Inc.
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The Manufacturer & Business Association (MBA), founded in 1905, represents more than 2,000 member companies in 54 counties across the Commonwealth. The MBA is dedicated to helping employers face challenges by delivering services that lower the cost of doing business, ease the burden of compliance and increase productivity for its members. For more information, visit www.mbausa.org.