Leadership | GD&T Manufacturing

Founder & CEO

Tricia Fitch

Tricia has worked in accounting, project cost control, financial management, and business operations since 2009. Her career has included large-scale capital and operating environments where she has managed multibillion-dollar budgets and supported complex projects requiring close coordination between financial performance and operational execution. She has also helped build, restructure, and strengthen organizations, giving her experience not only in managing established operations but in creating the structure needed for companies to move forward with greater clarity and control.

Her approach to leadership is grounded in stewardship and servant leadership. Tricia believes leadership carries a responsibility to manage resources wisely, honor commitments, develop people, and make decisions with the long-term health of the organization in mind. At GD&T Manufacturing, those principles shape the standard she expects in relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

As Founder & CEO, Tricia leads the business and commercial direction of GD&T Manufacturing. She brings the perspective of someone accustomed to making decisions where cost, risk, capacity, and execution must work together, applying that experience to how the company evaluates opportunities, prices work, invests in capability, and builds for the future.

Tricia earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Tarleton State University and is currently pursuing her Master of Business Administration at Tarleton State University. Her education complements the experience she has built since 2009 and the responsibility she now carries in developing GD&T Manufacturing.

K.C. Fitch

K.C. has been machining since 1999, building hands-on experience across a wide range of precision manufacturing environments. His background spans CNC machining, complex setups, tooling strategy, print interpretation, troubleshooting, quality control, and the day-to-day decisions required to move work from print through production and inspection.

For the past seven years, K.C. has served in shop management, leading production teams, coordinating workloads and schedules, developing machinists, and solving the technical problems that affect quality, throughput, and delivery. That experience has given him a practical understanding of how equipment, people, tooling, process planning, and customer requirements have to work together on the shop floor.

His cross-industry manufacturing background has required close attention to repeatability, fit and function, material and process requirements, inspection, documentation, and production consistency. He brings that experience to GD&T Manufacturing without treating any one industry as the limit of his manufacturing background.

As Director of Manufacturing, K.C. leads manufacturing execution and technical shop operations, including machining strategy, setups, tooling, production flow, equipment utilization, shop-floor quality, technical problem solving, and machinist development. His focus is on translating the print into a workable process and carrying that process through to a finished component that meets the requirement.