John J. Weaver
Vice President, Human Resources
AMETEK, Inc.

With over twenty-seven years of proven human resource management experience, John J. Weaver, Vice President of Human Resources at AMETEK, Inc., has demonstrated the skills and accomplishments that set him apart from other human resource leaders. John’s breadth of experience includes employee and labor relations, human capital strategic planning, and global talent management. John has been recognized in all facets of the profession.

AMETEK Inc. is a Paoli, Pennsylvania based diversified global manufacturing company with $2B in sales and more than 70 manufacturing locations worldwide. AMETEK Inc. has approximately 11,000 employees.

Since joining AMETEK in 1994, John has emerged as a leader in the development of diversity programs. Not only has he upgraded AMETEK’s corporate-wide leadership development program to include an organizational dynamics assessment process that identifies future leaders, but John has also integrated Diversity Action Planning into the annual leadership development process. He has led the initiative to bring national diversity groups to the area and to create the region’s own diversity academy. As part of a delegation of AMETEK executives who make annual visits to Asia, John chairs the Leadership Development Review process for the Asian business as well as the development of an Asian Human Resources Organization to be based in Shanghai. In addition, he has also established AMETEK’s Pan-European Human Resources Organization based in the UK. His accomplishments have prompted the nomination of AMETEK for the 2004 Diversity Award sponsored by the Greater Valley Forge Human Resources Association.

In November of 2007, John was nominated to the Advisory Board of the Great Valley Campus of Penn State University. John currently serves as the Corporate Representative of the Diversity Action Council of Penn State Great Valley. He is also a member of the Senior Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Human Resource Development at Villanova University and is a member of the Public Advisory Board of the American Institute of Managing Diversity based in Atlanta. Additionally, he was a member of the steering committee of local HR and diversity leaders who championed the effort to bring the Diversity Leadership Academy to the Penn State University Great Valley Campus. John is also a member of several other key organizations, including the Society of Human Resource Management, the Pennsylvania Employee Benefits Association, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Parent’s Advisory Council, and the Alumni Associations of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Villanova University.

Prior to his role at AMETEK, John began his career in Boston, Massachusetts by experiencing a variety of human resource roles at ITT Sheraton Corporation, including Corporate Manager of Staffing, Personnel Manager, and Director of Employee Development. John continued his career at Guest Quarters Suite Hotels/Doubletree Hotels Corporation, holding the positions of Regional Director and Vice President of Human Resources.

John earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Hotel, Restaurant & Travel Administration, with a concentration of Human Resources, from the University of Massachusetts in 1981. He continued his education by earning a Master of Science Degree in Human Resource Development from Villanova University in May 2003. For his accomplishments, John has been honored as a guest faculty member for Boston University, Cornell University, Widener University, the University of Massachusetts and Villanova University. John has also been recognized by the University of Massachusetts with their Alumni to Watch Award in 1988.