Dale Delmege

Dale Delmege held sales and marketing posts at Black & Decker and was vice president of marketing at Ingersoll-Rand Automotive Tools before joining Mitchell International in 1989, where he became senior vice president of sales, marketing and research and development and then executive vice president of operations. He was later a principal in AutocheX and in 1994 founded the Chelsea Group, a consulting firm. He chaired the Collision Industry Conference in 1999 and 2000, was a founder, director and chairman of the Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association and was a founder and director of the National Auto Body Council. A lifetime member of SCRS and an ABRN columnist, he was also a poet, musician and artist. He died Feb. 15, 2015.