James Woelfel, vice president of Artcraft Granite, Marble and Tile of Mesa, Ariz., has been elected president by the National Tile Contractors Association’s membership. His election was officially announced at this year’s Total Solutions Plus Conference, which was held in San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 25-28, 2014.
Woelfel will serve a two-year term until November 2016. He succeeds outgoing president Dan Welch, president of Welch Tile & Marble in Michigan. With his leadership and passion for the tile industry, Welch will become the chairman of the board for the NTCA. He is currently on the board of directors for the CTEF (Ceramic Tile Education Foundation), on the NTCA Technical Committee and was the 2014 NTCA Tile Person of the Year.
“I am honored to become the next President of the NTCA,” said James Woelfel. “It is humbling for me to become the first son of a former president of our association’s history. My father, Butch Woelfel, served in this capacity from 1985-1987. In my tenure, I hope to raise the awareness of our association to even stronger international recognition, as we continue to play a leading role in the development of installation standards for tile and stone installations. We want to celebrate our past and embrace the future of a global tile industry.”
James Woelfel is the current NTCA Technical Committee chairman and a member of the TCNA Handbook Committee and the ANSI A108 Committee. In 2011, he was the recipient of the NTCA Tile Person of the Year award.
