As the current president of Esterline Power Systems, Mark Thek oversees the sales and marketing of the company’s products along with the manufacturing and engineering systems in its facilities around the world. Mark Thek is also the president of Leach International, a supplier of business jet systems based in Buena Park, California, acquired in 1995 by the Esterline Corporation. Leach International won an award in 2007 for being one of the best annual supply chains for the Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in North America. Leach International manufactures control components and power switches with a high reliability for aerospace vehicles, including Gulfstream business jets. As a fully owned subsidiary of the Esterline Corporation, Leach International Corporation has established itself as a world leader in aerospace/defense systems designs that also include components like contacts, sockets, and relays used in jets and other aerospace products. The company specializes in creating cutting-edge and unique designs for their component systems. An aerospace engineering professional based in Los Angeles, California, Mark Thek is the president of Esterline Power Systems, an international company that provides power distribution systems to aerospace and rail programs around the world. Outside of his work in the aerospace sector, Mark Thek is an author and the nephew of distinguished artist Paul Thek. Though he passed away at the young age of 54, Paul Thek’s legacy endures in his art pieces, several of which are on display at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. Among the Thek pieces on display at the Hirshhorn Museum is Fishman, a sculpture that made its debut at the arts center in 1968. Made from a natural rubber and latex cast of the artist’s body, Fishman depicts a swimming man supported by fish that swim along the length of his body. Because the fish has historically been a biblically based symbol for Jesus Christ, many interpret the sculpture’s message as one of resurrection. While the sculpture originally sported a flesh-like tone and texture, time has worn away at its material, darkening the color of the art piece and hardening the latex to the point of crumbling. Restoration professionals from the Hirshhorn treated the sculpture in 2010 for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition Paul Thek, Diver: A Retrospective. |
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