FORT WORTH, Texas – A world leader in graphite shaft innovation, UST® (United Sports Technologies) has announced the promotion of Robb Schikner as its new vice-president of engineering design and technical sales. Schikner has more than 17 years of golf shaft design expertise and previously served as UST’s director of engineering design and technical sales and supervised various aspects of product design and testing, material selection, and tour development activities.
“Since joining UST, Robb has shown strong leadership and done an outstanding job in helping to develop innovative new products, and he has also will been responsible for maintaining and expanding our business with club manufacturers,” says Gene Simpson, senior vice president of sales and marketing for UST brands. “I’m confident Robb’s continued leadership of our engineering and technical team will remain at the forefront of a global, competitive shaft market.”
Schikner earned a master’s degree in engineering from Clemson University. Prior to joining UST, Schikner served in a similar senior-level position with a San Diego-based golf shaft company, where he was responsible for technical sales, engineering, product marketing and manufacturing. He currently lives in Fort Worth with wife, Eliana and daughters Sulijah and Haley.
High-performance UST graphite shafts are played by some of the world’s best players such as Davis Love III, Rod Pampling and many others. For more information on UST or UST products, contact sales and public relations manager Randy Stuart at 281.250.8465 or visit www.ustgolfshaft.com.
UST makes graphite golf shafts for golf consumers and supplies many original equipment manufacturers, such as Titliest, Ping, Nike, Callaway, Cleveland, TaylorMade, Adams, Nickent, Wilson, Sonartec and others. UST also produces and distributes such world-renown graphite shaft brands as Proforce, ACCRA, IROD and Frequency Filtered Putter shafts which are played in more than 100 tour events on the PGA, SPGA, Nationwide and European tours. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, UST operates four manufacturing facilities throughout the world and produces more than four million graphite shafts a year for original equipment manufacturers and custom clubmakers. For more information about UST, visit www.ustgolfshaft.com.
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