Management Team
Douglas Woollings
President and CEO
Douglas Woollings is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Interfast Inc., a role he has served since 1966 upon forming the company. From modest beginnings in 1966 when he started the company with three people, Doug has succeeded in growing Interfast to the number one market position in Canada and as a top 10 aerospace fastener distribution firm globally, with customers in Asia Pacific, Europe, North and South America. Recognizing a company’s strength is based on its people, Doug has built a strong management team and taken an usual step of establishing a board of directors to support management, despite the fact that Interfast is a private company.
Doug has served on several boards including his past role as a Director of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada. He has served on the Technical Standards Committee for Fasteners and has acted as a Technical Advisor to the fastener industry over the past several years.
Doug has been involved in the aerospace and industrial fastener industries since 1959, starting his career in parts management in the automotive industry. He later served as a National Sales Manager at a British fastener company prior to establishing Interfast.
Doug is an avid pilot and enjoys fly fishing.
Tom Worden
General Manager of Canadian Operations
Tom Worden is general manager at Interfast, responsible for Canadian operations. He has played an integral role in the financial and day-to-day operations of the company since joining back in 2007.
Prior to Interfast, Tom Warden spent a distinguished 26-year career at KPMG. A chartered account, he filled a number of roles with the company over the years, including serving as a partner in KPMG’s Assurance practice.
Tom is a Board Member of Grandview Children’s Centre and currently is on the Board of the Oshawa Hospital Foundation. He previously had served as Vice-Chair of the Oshawa General Hospital Board of Governors (now Lakeridge Health Oshawa). Tom also is a member and Past Ontario Provincial Chair of Ducks Unlimited Canada.
Conrad Lennert
VP, Sales and Marketing
Interfast Inc.
Conrad Lennert is VP, Sales and Marketing at Interfast, responsible for global sales and marketing and oversees sales representatives in Canada and the United States. Conrad has been with Interfast for more than 25 years, starting out in technical sales. Early in his career at Interfast, he demonstrated significant success in growing new territories, leading to successive promotions within the company.
With his unique blend of engineering depth and strong sales skills, Conrad has played an instrumental role in growing Interfast’s business and in building the company’s engineering support capabilities, where Interfast staff can assist design teams with comparisons of engineering techniques, applications and technologies as the basis for alternative fastener-based solutions, with emphasis on safety, quality assurance and quality control.
Prior to Interfast, Conrad was a tool designer at Illinois Tool Works and also an engineering manager in tool design at TFI Fasteners.
Peter Oleck
General Manager
Interfast USA
Based in Miami, Peter Oleck is the General Manager of Interfast USA, responsible for Interfast’s American operations and a member of the company’s board of directors. He also oversees the company’s activity in South America and parts of Europe. With more than 20 years of aerospace fastener industry experience, Peter has significantly grown the U.S. operations since he joined Interfast in 2005. Peter has held many senior VP positions in a variety of Aerospace companies. His duties included supervision of Purchasing, Accounting, and Customer / Vendor relations. Peter was a corporate loan officer for AmeriFirst Bank and also had taught history at the University of Virginia.
Peter earned a BA from Tulane University, an MA from the University of Florida and a Masters of International Management (MIM) from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management.