President and CEO
MGS Mfg. Group | Germantown
Paul Manley has spent more than 28 years at MGS Mfg. Group, serving as its president and chief executive officer since 2020. Based in Germantown, MGS is a vertically integrated provider of manufacturing solutions for complex, high-precision plastic components. It operates 12 locations globally.
Under Manley’s leadership, MGS acquired Denmark-based Winther Mould Technology, a health care tooling manufacturer, and Denmark-based Technolution, a consultancy and development company focused on the pharmaceutical and medtech industries, in 2023. Also under his direction, the company has pivoted to work solely with customers in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic and medical technology industries. Previously, MGS also served the automotive and electronics markets.
The company is currently building a 120,000-square-foot innovation center on its Germantown campus, which will feature workspaces dedicated to ideation and product development, tooling development, automation and part and process validation. The center consolidates the company’s existing Germantown Global Automation Center and Menomonee Falls Sampling Facility into a single campus.
Manley joined the firm in 1996 as an accounts payable clerk and worked his way up through the organization to become chief financial officer in 2009, CFO and chief operating officer in 2013, president in 2016, and president and CEO in 2020.
Education: Bachelor’s, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
