1980
1985
1983 Graduated from
Marietta College
1983 Hired as director
of operations at
Spectrum Resources
1986 Named executive
vice president at
Spectrum Resources
1990
1995
1990 Hired as president
of Tazwell Corporation
1995 Founded Enhanced
Technologies LLC
1996 Hired as the marketing
and business development
manager at Eagle
Manufacturing Company
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
“We are creating hope and a
future that will help
West Virginians shine for
many years into the future.”
2009 Named president
and CEO of Eagle
Manufacturing Company
2010 Founded the Joseph
and Debra Eddy Foundation
2014 Established the
Joseph Eddy Technology
Scholarship Fund at WVNCC
2014 Founded the WVMA
Educational Fund Inc. and was
named chairman of the board
2017 Testified before the
U.S. House Committee on
Education and the Workforce
2017 Named to the advisory
board of the National
Institute of Standards &
Technology-MEP Program
of protecting people, property and the
planet. He also commits time to produc-
ing optimism among West Virginia manu-
facturers, skills among young people who
will seize the jobs of the future and hope
for the state.
Under his direction, Eagle has signifi-
cantly expanded its product lines and
market channel and created many new
jobs. He has also helped make community
involvement a part of the fabric at Eagle.
His employees serve as volunteer firemen,
coach local teams and serve as pacesetters
in the local United Way campaign. The
company also offers summer internships
for employees’ college-age students and
more than 500 students, and community
members tour the factory each year.
Over the years, Eddy has become a lead-
ing voice for manufacturing and energy,
both statewide and nationally. He currently
serves on the boards of the West Virginia
Manufacturers Association (WVMA) and
the National Association of Manufactur-
ers (NAM), as well as the boards for the
West Virginia Northern Community Col-
lege (WVNCC) Foundation, Marietta Col-
lege’s McDonough Leadership School and
West Virginia University’s global supply
chain management advisory council. He
also serves on the Regional Economic
Development Partnership board, Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Charleston
Industry Roundtable, West Virginia Eco-
nomic Development Authority board and
advisory board for the National Institute of
Standards & Technology-MEP Program.
In an effort to help prepare the next
generation of manufacturers, he founded
the Joseph and Debra Eddy Foundation
and the Joseph Eddy Technology Schol-
arship Fund at WVNCC. He is a founder
and chairman of the board of the WVMA
Educational Fund and its Explore the
New Manufacturing middle school cam-
paign, which promotes career track educa-
tion, leading to skilled trades in advanced
manufacturing.
“West Virginia is at the epicenter of the
natural gas boom,” he says. “We have al-
ready developed the upstream and mid-
stream energy industries, and with further
development of downstream chemical and
manufacturing, we will see unprecedent-
ed creation of jobs and technologies that
will give our young people the opportu-
nity to have rewarding careers that pay
excellent wages in West Virginia. We are
creating hope and a future that will help
West Virginians shine for many years into
the future.”
At the end of the day, his mission is to
empower West Virginians: to teach them to
fish for life, so to speak, instead of giving
them fish for a day. “I believe in the gen-
eral principle of alleviating poverty by
facilitating self-sufficiency—by teaching
a man a trade or by putting him into a
business—so he may earn an honest live-
lihood and not be forced to the alterna-
tive of holding up his hand for charity. I
believe the opportunity for prosperity for
all West Virginians is at our doorstep.”
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