Mustafa joins Avantus from Lisi Aerospace where he most recently served as the Director of Manufacturing in their flagship Torrance, CA facility. He brings with him 16 years’ top-notch experience in the aerospace fasteners business, among a 20 year career in manufacturing.
 
Throughout his career, Mustafa has led numerous safety improvement and business development initiatives. He has also been entrusted to identify strong business cases to gain multi-million-dollar growth-seeking capital investments. He led the modernization efforts at Lisi Fasteners over the past seven years.
Mustafa is an educated and trained Mechanical Engineer with a (BSc), including a Master of Science in Production & Industrial Management, along with an MBA. His extensive experience and proven leadership underscore his high level of fastener industry knowledge, operational experience, lean methodology, and investment/capex/automation identification and execution experience.
 
The Avantus team is thrilled to have Mustafa join our exciting journey. When asked to share his thoughts, Mustafa stated, “I’m honored with the opportunity to lead the FIT Team as its President, and I’m so glad and excited to be part of a team which is very experienced, supportive and focused making FIT a world class fastener supplier.”