Warren Lasch

A leader and pioneer in the automotive transportation industry, Warren Lasch is the Vice Chairman and former President of Precision Motor Transport Group, LLC, of Okemos, Michigan. From 1992 to 2008, Mr. Lasch helped expand Precision Motor Transport Group's annual revenue from $3.2 million to $70.2 million.

While studying business management at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, Warren Lasch also worked in the corporate mailroom at Leaseway Transportation Corporation. By the time he had earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1968, Mr. Lasch's work ethic and innovation had seen him climb to Operations Manager of one of Leaseway’s subsidiary truck leasing groups, later serving as the head of the corporation's Michigan Group and as Marketing and Sales Director for its Cleveland office. Warren Lasch brought determination and strategic planning with him in all his various positions throughout a career of more than 40 years.

In his time between working with the mailroom at Leaseway Transportation Corporation and heading the Precision Motor Transport Group, Warren Lasch was also a District Manager for The Hertz Corporation’s Trucking Company; co-founder of Robin Transport, Inc.; and founder of Bavarian Motor Transport. Eventually, when Bavarian Transport Group and Tri-Star Transport, Inc., merged under Precision Motor Transport Group, Warren Lasch was appointed President of the new consortium.

In addition to his work in the vehicle transport industry, Warren Lasch has worked as a former Chairman of the Friends of the Hunley to recover, restore, and preserve the historic submarine, H.L. Hunley, the first craft of its type to sink an enemy warship, as well as the legacy of its doomed sailors. Among the honors bestowed upon Mr. Lasch are the APPL Award from the National Park Service; the Christopher Gadsden Award from the Maritime Association of the Port of Charleston; the Horace L. Hunley Award from the Sons of Confederate Veterans; the Legacy Award from the Civil War Preservation Trust of Washington, D.C.; the Virginius Dabney Award from the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia; and the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian award given by the State of South Carolina.