Ron Loveland, promoter of Long Island as a manufacturing hub, dies at 68
Business consultant Ron Loveland was known as the Mayor of Manufacturing because he promoted Long Island as a manufacturing 'gem' and built a pipel...
Business consultant Ron Loveland was known as the Mayor of Manufacturing because he promoted Long Island as a manufacturing 'gem' and built a pipeline of young talent for companies struggling to fill jobs. He shifted views away from despair over the Island's loss of a vibrant defense industry to a vision of an economy brimming with careers at smaller manufacturers, including the businesses that had supplied giants such as Grumman Aerospace Corp. 'He was one of the first people who was a voice in the wilderness, who made people start thinking about this stuff, and it paid off,' said John Spiezio, board chairman of ADDAPT, a Garden City-based aerospace and defense trade group of which Loveland was a board member.