About BoldtSmith Packaging Consultants

John has 20+ years of design and project management experience in a multitude of industries, specializing in returnable and disposable custom fabricated dunnage for customers such as Harley-Davidson, John Deere, Mercury Marine, Club Car, Bobcat, Bemis, and Modine.

Prior to founding BoldtSmith, Dustin’s roles included Sr. Packaging Engineer at the Home Depot, responsible for managing retail packaging development and testing for globally sourced products. Earlier, Dustin worked with manufacturers that sold into Target, Wal-Mart and Walgreens under private label brands.

Dan is BoldtSmith's General Manager. He has a background in project management, new product introductions, quality control, and continuous improvement activities. With 25 years of industrial manufacturing experience, he provides additional operations insight and for our...

Justin has a vast array of knowledge and experience in the food industry across nearly all packaging formats. He comes to the BoldtSmith team having worked for food companies such as Kraft Foods, Del Monte Foods, Amy’s Kitchen, Sovos Brands, and Mars Food. He’s also wor...

Aaron’s background includes 7 years of corrugated design for dozens of customers. He also spent nearly 4 years as a Packaging Engineer at a consumer goods company. He has worked on products as small as circuit boards, all the way up to large automotive and agricultural ...

With over 30 years of packaging experience, a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Packaging, Robert is an expert in the field of packaging.  Prior to joining BoldtSmith Packaging Robert was the director for the UW-Stout Packaging program.  His experience and expertise are...

Nick has diverse knowledge in several areas of packaging including consumer product goods, military packaging, ASTM crates, automotive, damage reduction, reusable container systems, and warehouse/manufacturing operational efficiencies. Prior to joining BoldtSmith Nick w...

Prior to joining the BoldtSmith team, Max spent 7 years at Fiskars managing the packaging development and testing for a diverse collection of globally manufactured retail and e-commerce products selling into Home Depot, Lowe’s, Amazon, Wal-Mart, etc. The background Max ...

Prior to joining BoldtSmith, Dave worked at Stanley Black & Decker designing and implementing packaging solutions for DeWalt Power Tools. Dave’s experience prior to Stanley Black & Decker was working as a packaging engineer at a testing lab conducting testing on medical...

Before joining BoldtSmith, Colton has had the opportunity to work on a variety of packaging innovations, materials and technologies.  His accomplishments in sustainability, supplier relations, commercialization, new product development, and cost savings while working at...

Bryan's background includes 15 years of packaging expertise with a specific background in expendable and returnable packaging shipping globally.  His previous roles including designing, testing and implementing packaging at Harley Davidson for sub assembly components an...

Jack brings to BoldtSmith 30+ years of proven automotive packaging and material handling experience. Prior to joining the team, Jack worked for Ford Motor Company and American Axle Manufacturing. He has extensive industrial packaging experience, such as developing and i...

Drew comes to BoldtSmith after serving as a Packaging Engineer for Milwaukee Tool.  During this time Drew was a Sustainability Team Lead, utilizing his passion to make packaging as environmentally friendly as can be, while helping to reduce material usage and create eas...

Ray is BoldtSmith's Creative Director, bringing a background in designing retail packaging, brands, sub-brands, logos, photography and marketing campaigns. He has won National "Best In Show" designs and multiple American Advertising Federation Gold awards across several...

Sam’s experience comes from the food and beauty industry. Prior to joining the BoldtSmith team Sam has worked for food companies such as Mars and Sargento Foods. The last 2 years, he worked at Guy and O’Neill, Inc. supporting customers by putting sustainability goals in...