Golden Artist Colors adds two to board of directors

COLUMBUS, N.Y. — Golden Artist Colors, Inc., a global manufacturer of professional artist paints, recently announced it has added Jonathon Karelse and Carl Minchew to its board of directors.

Karelse has worked with Golden Artist Colors since 2013 as a consultant to help develop planning efforts across all departments with his consulting company, NorthFind Management. Under his guidance, Golden has been able to predict its capacity requirements and the constraints on the ability to deliver to its customers. Karelse is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management, a member of the 2019 Management Excellence cohort at Harvard Business School, and is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. As CEO of NorthFind, he helps clients work on demand planning, operational excellence, and integrated business planning. 

Minchew recently retired from a 44-year career with Benjamin Moore & Co. When he met Golden management six years ago, he was Benjamin Moore’s VP of color innovation and design, leading the development of the entire organization’s new color and design initiatives. Minchew began his career as a chemist at that company and over his career worked and led in many positions including quality assurance, operations management, environment, health and safety, as well as color technology. Minchew is a collaborative inventor of more than 20 different patents in the paint and coatings industry. He will be starting in 2022 as executive director of the Color Guild, a consortium of more than 50 paint manufacturers from 16 different countries, dedicated to the marketing, promotion, and selling of paint products.

Karelse and Minchew join Mark Golden, Golden Artist Colors CEO & co-founder; Barbara Schindler, company president & COO; and Jim Henderson, board of directors’ treasurer on the Golden board.

Golden Artist Colors last fall become a 100-percent employee-owned company. Each share of the firm’s stock is now held in trust by the ESOP exclusively for the benefit of Golden employees.

Golden Artist Colors is a manufacturer of artist-quality materials including colors and mediums for painting in acrylics, oils, and most recently, watercolors. The company has a 100,000-square-foot facility in the town of Columbus in Chenango County and a 45,000-square-foot commercial warehouse and distribution center in Norwich, in the same county. Golden Artist Colors currently employs more than 200 people.