PMC Smart Solutions

PMC Smart Solutions

PMC Smart Solutions traces its operational roots to 1929, when Ed Gerdes co-founded a manufacturing business later formalized into a defined-benefit entity in 1963. Today the firm operates under Lisa Jennings, the fourth-generation president and CEO, with her father Thom Gerdes serving as chairman. The company is structured around a dual posture: an advanced manufacturing business with plants in Blue Ash, Shelbyville, Detroit, Wiesau, and San Jose Iturbide, and a pension trust that allocates capital across venture, growth equity, and natural resources. The manufacturing arm is a specialized contract producer for life sciences and mobility. Confirmed medical-device relationships include Medtronic as a strategic supplier of surgical therapies and Beta Bionics, for which PMC manufactures the cartridge connector used in the iLet Bionic Pancreas, an automated insulin delivery system. The company also received the Bosch Global Supplier Excellence Award. The investment portfolio, managed through the PMC Pension Trust established in 1963, spans buyout, early-stage, start-up, seed, expansion, and venture strategies, alongside natural resources allocations. PMC operates five manufacturing facilities across three countries and is certified as a Women's Business Enterprise by WBENC. The firm maintains bioscience industry ties through BioOhio and regional business connections via the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. Philanthropic commitments include ArtsWave and the Venti-Now Non-Profit Corp. Architecturally, PMC is unusual in fusing an operating manufacturer with an active pension-trust investment vehicle under a single family-controlled governance structure. Most family offices separate the operating company from the investment pool; PMC runs both under the same fourth-generation leadership, with the pension trust providing a structural bridge between factory cash flows and venture allocations.