Jay Nartatez

Executive Vice President of Finance and Risk / Chief Financial Officer McLanahan Corporation

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Jay Nartatez is Executive Vice President of Finance and Risk and Chief Financial Officer of McLanahan Corporation, the Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania manufacturer of processing equipment for the aggregates, mining and dairy industries. He is responsible for the company’s accounting, finance and risk management. An accountant by training and a Pennsylvania CPA, he joined McLanahan as Financial Controller in October 2007 and rose to its senior finance role inside the business — a notable path at a company that has been owned by the same family since 1835 and has, over the past decade, expanded abroad and acquired several other equipment makers, including Anaconda Equipment of Northern Ireland.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President of Finance and Risk and Chief Financial Officer of McLanahan Corporation, responsible for accounting, finance and risk management.
• Joined McLanahan as Financial Controller in October 2007.
• Previously Senior Accountant, Accounting Manager and then Controller at Albemarle Corporation in Tyrone, Pennsylvania.
• Began his career as a Senior Staff Accountant at Alpern, Rosenthal & Company in Pittsburgh.
• Has held an active Pennsylvania CPA licence since 2002.
• Served two terms on the board of The Chamber Foundation in Blair County.

Professional Journey

Nartatez graduated from The Pennsylvania State University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and started out as a Senior Staff Accountant at Alpern, Rosenthal & Company, an accounting firm in Pittsburgh.

He moved into industry at Albemarle Corporation’s operation in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, where he progressed through positions of increasing responsibility, from Senior Accountant to Accounting Manager to Controller. He has held an active Certified Public Accountant licence in Pennsylvania since 2002.

In October 2007 he joined McLanahan Corporation as Financial Controller. McLanahan traces its origins to the Bellerophon Foundry, established in Gaysport, Pennsylvania in 1835 by James Craig McLanahan and partners, and has been in Hollidaysburg since 1863. It remains a sixth-generation family-owned company and today designs and builds equipment for aggregate, mineral and agricultural processing.

His time at McLanahan has coincided with the company’s international expansion. It opened subsidiaries in Hyderabad, India and Santiago, Chile in 2015, acquired Anaconda Equipment of Northern Ireland in 2019, completed the acquisitions of RubbleCrusher and CMB International in 2022, and added Diefenbach SRL, a maker of filter presses and thickeners, in 2023. He now serves as Executive Vice President of Finance and Risk and Chief Financial Officer, with responsibility for accounting, finance and risk management, working alongside Chief Executive Officer Sean K. McLanahan and Chairman Michael W. McLanahan.

Outside the company he served two terms on the board of directors of The Chamber Foundation in Blair County, and his past volunteer work includes Junior Achievement and coaching local sports teams.

Education

The Pennsylvania State University

Bachelor of Science, Accounting, 1992