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Leadership team
RELY Leadership
Leadership that connects growth with execution.
The right manufacturing partner should understand what the work makes possible for your business. RELY’s leadership team brings together strategic growth, customer relationships, operating discipline, engineering, and hands-on production experience to help customers remove constraints and build programs that can perform as they grow.
How RELY is led
We do not lead manufacturing from conference rooms.
RELY leadership stays connected to day-to-day operations because the company was built by people who have spent their careers inside manufacturing environments. The team combines experience across manufacturing operations, engineering, quality systems, supply chain, workforce development, automation and e-commerce scalability.
Leaders
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Strategy, Innovation & Growth
Katie Malnight Meisinger
CEO / Owner
Katie leads RELY Contract Manufacturing’s strategy, innovation, growth, and strategic customer relationships. She starts with the business behind the work: how the customer competes, what it wants to achieve, and which constraints are standing in the way.
Drawing on experience across hundreds of manufacturing environments, workforce strategy, quality systems, business operations, and systems development, Katie sees connections between challenges that are often treated separately. A capacity problem may also involve how work is organized, where skilled employees spend their time, or how a program is supported as demand changes.
Her strength is bringing those pieces together into practical, often nontraditional solutions. That may mean combining manufacturing capabilities, rethinking where work happens, developing a new system, or bringing specialized partners together. She treats workforce selection, training, retention, and development as operating capabilities that make complexity and growth manageable.
Katie also looks beyond RELY’s own services. When another resource is the better fit, she connects customers with suppliers, potential customers, workforce resources, and industry relationships that can advance their business.
Her focus is helping customers free constrained capacity, pursue growth, and develop advantages that are difficult to replicate. She brings a broad business perspective to the conversation and a willingness to challenge assumptions about how the objective can be achieved.
Areas of Focus
- Strategic Customer Relationships
- Innovation & Systems Thinking
- Growth Strategy
- Workforce Capability
- Strategic Partnerships
- Business & Resource Connections
Understanding the business behind the work. Seeing possibilities others may not.
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Business & Operational Excellence
Tori Morrow
President
Tori connects customer commitments with the people, capacity, operating systems, and financial resources required to deliver them. As RELY’s President, she turns growth plans into an organization equipped to execute consistently.
With more than 25 years of manufacturing experience spanning finance, production, and executive leadership, Tori understands the relationship between the manufacturing floor and the financial statements. She evaluates decisions through both lenses: what creates value for the customer and what makes the operating model efficient, reliable, and sustainable.
Her strength is aligning functions around a shared outcome. She brings operations, quality, supply chain, workforce, and financial discipline together so the resources supporting a program match its requirements. She challenges cost and complexity that do not create value while protecting the capabilities needed for dependable performance.
Tori applies the same discipline to leadership development and accountability. In previous roles, she strengthened operating systems and helped build a workplace culture recognized with consecutive Top Workplace awards. At RELY, her focus is building a business that can support larger opportunities and greater complexity while maintaining quality, responsiveness, and a strong customer experience.
Areas of Focus
- Business Performance
- Operational Excellence
- Capacity & Resource Planning
- Cost & Financial Discipline
- Organizational Scalability
- Leadership Development
Making great solutions operationally and financially sustainable.
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Engineering, Automation & Technology
Jim Lowe
VP of Engineering & Technology / Owner
Jim turns manufacturing challenges into practical engineering solutions that improve consistency and throughput while reducing unnecessary cost. He starts with the work and its requirements, then determines the right combination of process design, tooling, automation, and technology.
His experience spans plastics, metal fabrication, automation, product development, process engineering, and manufacturing systems. He designs cost-effective fixtures, vision systems, automated testing, and poka-yoke devices that help prevent assembly errors. His approach builds quality checks into the process and reduces reliance on repeated manual inspection.
Jim also develops dashboards, data systems, and AI-enabled tools that turn operating information into clearer decisions and reduce repetitive administrative work. He evaluates technology by its usefulness to the people and processes it supports.
His judgment matters as much as his technical range: knowing when a simple fixture is enough, when automation is justified, and how added complexity will affect reliability and return on investment. For customers, Jim brings the ability to solve today’s production problem while considering what the process will need as the program grows.
Areas of Focus
- Automation & Vision Systems
- Fixtures & Error Proofing
- Process Engineering
- Automated Testing
- Data & Decision Systems
- AI & Applied Technology
Engineering smarter systems that make quality and efficiency repeatable.
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Manufacturing & Customer Execution
Kimmi Roehrborn
Plant Manager
Kimmi leads the daily execution behind RELY’s customer commitments. She translates requirements into organized work, trained teams, and consistent production, with close attention to the details that affect quality, cost, and delivery.
Her more than 15 years of manufacturing experience includes progression from machine operator through process technician and plant leadership. Having performed the work and led the people doing it, she brings a practical understanding of what makes a process succeed on the floor. Her background includes strong plastics and injection molding expertise, alongside experience managing varied manufacturing work.
Kimmi combines lean and continuous improvement with employee development. She creates documented standardized work, trains teams, improves processes and layouts, and uses practical tools such as 3D-printed fixtures to reduce variation and unnecessary effort. Her focus is making good performance easier to repeat as the work and the team evolve.
Customers experience that approach through proactive communication, ownership, and a quick response when conditions change. Kimmi treats RELY as an extension of the customer’s operation, keeping the team focused on the commitment and looking for ways to improve how it is delivered.
Areas of Focus
- Daily Manufacturing Operations
- Customer Execution
- Lean & Continuous Improvement
- Training & Standardized Work
- Team Development
- Process & Layout Improvement
Treating every customer commitment like it is our own.
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Customer Solutions & Commercial Execution
Clay Giese
National Sales Manager
Clay connects the customer’s business objective with the scope, expectations, and follow-through needed for a successful RELY program. He leads customer development with a focus on understanding where outsourcing can strengthen operations, support growth, and create lasting value.
He looks beyond the immediate request for quote to understand the pressures behind it, including constrained capacity, quality concerns, cost, and delivery requirements. Drawing on experience across a wide range of customer programs, he brings perspective on what has worked elsewhere and helps adapt those lessons to the situation at hand.
Clay stays connected through quoting, launch, execution, and ongoing business reviews. That continuity helps keep the commercial conversation aligned with the work being delivered. Through quarterly business reviews and regular customer engagement, he looks for emerging issues, opportunities to improve performance, and additional needs where RELY has a clear fit.
His approach combines responsiveness with attention to detail: understand the requirement, follow through on open questions, and keep working to make the relationship more valuable over time.
Areas of Focus
- Customer Development
- Program Scoping
- Solution Development
- Quoting & Launch Coordination
- Quarterly Business Reviews
- Performance & Growth Opportunities
Connecting the right solution with consistent follow-through.
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Equipment Installation, Reliability & Wire Harness Assembly
Ryan Meisinger
Maintenance & Wire Harnessing Manager
Ryan brings extensive experience installing and maintaining heavy manufacturing equipment to his leadership of RELY’s maintenance and wire harnessing functions. He understands machinery as a complete system, including how its electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical components work together and where problems can develop.
Across more than 15 years in manufacturing maintenance and production support, much of Ryan’s career has centered on heavy machinery installations, including injection molding presses, automation systems, and CNC equipment. That work has built deep hands-on expertise across all four disciplines and a practical understanding of what equipment needs to operate reliably. His experience is particularly relevant when evaluating equipment installation requirements and production readiness for a transferred program.
Ryan takes a proactive approach to reliability through preventive maintenance, critical replacement parts, and attention to common failure points. He also uses rapid fabrication and 3D printing where appropriate to resolve problems and reduce avoidable downtime.
In wire harness assembly, he brings an end-user perspective to build quality, serviceability, and real-world operating conditions. His equipment background helps him recognize potential failure points and raise practical questions when reviewing customer requirements and assembly methods. Across both responsibilities, his focus is keeping production ready and addressing technical issues before they disrupt customer commitments.
Areas of Focus
- Heavy Machinery Installation
- Electrical, Hydraulic, Pneumatic & Mechanical Systems
- Wire Harness Assembly
- Equipment Reliability
- Preventive Maintenance
- Rapid Fabrication & Troubleshooting
Building for reliability. Keeping RELY ready to deliver.
Why this team matters
Built for operational complexity.
The combination of operations, engineering, quality, workforce, automation and fulfillment experience lets RELY move quickly, solve problems correctly and support customers through complex environments without losing execution discipline.
- E-commerce fulfillment
- Engineering & automation
- Global manufacturing leadership
- High-mix manufacturing
- Operational turnarounds
- Workforce scalability
Looking for a manufacturing partner built by operators?
RELY combines operational leadership, manufacturing discipline and execution-focused support to help customers scale with less friction.