Meet the Team
AMANDA SWIATEK
PRESIDENT
As President of Eco-Technology, Amanda is a hands-on leader who focuses on brand growth and direction, company performance to aide in maximizing operational excellence and, overall, Eco-Tech’s ongoing expansion efforts.
Over the next couple years, she wants to focus on operations and expanding Eco-Tech products, not only nationally, but internationally. Giving more businesses the ability to decrease their carbon footprint while saving money.
Before joining Eco-Technology, Amanda was with GES for 7 years as Manager of the (IMTS) International Manufacturing Technology Show’s Call Center. She trained her team personally to deliver excellent customer service and provided guidance to customers to get the most out of their budgets.
She graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BS in Community Health and then attended Saint Xavier University for graduate school, graduating with an MBA.
TOM GILMORE, JR.
CEO
Tom has enjoyed an over twenty-five-year career in the trade show industry producing countless trade shows throughout the country as part of multiple operations teams. He has had a long-standing relationship with the International Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest trade show in North America, helping to produce the show twelve times and counting.
While also being CEO of Eco-Technology, Inc., Tom helps to oversee all the companies within The Gilmore Group portfolio. He enjoys finding synergy among the different companies, bringing the teams together to streamline operations and further innovative thinking.
Tom attended Lawrence University of Wisconsin and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.
TOM GILMORE
FOUNDER
Tom Gilmore has spent the majority of his professional career in the trade show industry, leading such prominent event management companies like Andrews Bartlett, GES, and Hoffend Expositions. In his forty-five plus year career he has innovated operations procedures with Target Date Planning and sales initiatives with Custom Block Pricing.
He became the youngest Executive Vice-President in the history of Dial Corp, while at GES. It was in his time with trade shows that he founded Eco-Technology, LLC noticing the great amount of plastic waste that was ending up in landfills from the trade show industry. He has developed and fined tuned our product, The Tellurian, for close to twenty years revolutionizing how the trade show industry deals with its waste. His hope is to expand The Tellurian’s green influence into further markets, reducing the impact of workday waste while keeping people safe in the environments that they spend the most time in.
Tom attended the University of Illinois Circle with a background in Science & Engineering.