September 2012 - Trumpf Inc., Farmington, Conn., appointed Shane Simpson to regional manager of machine tool sales for the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region and Tom Bailey as product manager of the TruBend Product Group in North America. Simpson has 17 years of experience with Trumpf’s machine tool group. Bailey has previous experience at Trumpf as an applications engineer for sheet metal component design and as a sales engineer for laser machine tools.