BIOGRAPHY
LEON TRAMMELL, CEO
TRAMCO, INC.

Leon Trammell is founder and CEO of Tramco Inc., a company that produces environmentally friendly bulk material handling equipment. This equipment is used in cereal food processing and the general industry. Tramco was founded in 1967 in a $15.00 a month building. Today Mr. Trammell operates a State of The Art 130,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas; where approximately 100 employees manufacture conveyors that can be found in all 50 states and 52 foreign countries. A successful businessman for 40 years, Trammell’s company now does more trade outside the United States than within. Tramco has a sales and manufacturing facility in Hull, England and a sales office in the Netherlands. Tramco has alliance partners in many foreign countries such as Argentina, China, Columbia and Mexico and others.

VOLUNTEER WORK
                • Past Chairman of the Board of Kansas World Trade Center
                • Board Member of World Trade Council of Wichita
                • Regional Vice Chairman, Board of Directors of United States Chamber of Commerce
                • Vice-Chair of United States Chamber of Commerce, International Policy Committee
                • Member of United States Chamber of Commerce Council on Small Business
                • Member of CEO Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)

WASHINGTON
                •  Lobbies Congress in Support of Renewal of the most favored Nation trading relations with China yearly.
                •  Testified before the House Trade Subcommittee in Support of Normal Trade Relation status to China on March 4, 1999
                •  Testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means in Support of Permanent Normal Trade Relations to China on Feb. 16, 2000.
                •  Testified before the House Trade Subcommittee in Support of the Chile/Singapore Trade Agreement on June 10, 2003.
                •  Testified before the House Committee on Small Business in Support of the Crane, Rangel, Manzullo DR/CAFTA on Sept. 10, 2003.      
                •  Testified before the Senate Committee on Finance in support of U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, on June 29, 2006.

EXPORTING AWARDS
                Export Achievement Award 1994 & 2004 given by the World Trade
                Council of Wichita
                Exporter of the Year for SBA’s Wichita District Office 1993
                Exporter of the Year for SBA’s Region VII 2004
                Kansas Governor’s Exporter of year 2004
                President’s “E” Award for Exporting Excellence 2005

Mr. Trammell has two daughters and a son-in-law who work with him in the business. Leon is a multi-engine rated pilot. He and his wife Jerri live on a 1,500 acre ranch, 19 miles from Tramco where they raise Brangus cows and Tennessee Walking horses.