Blanton Bartlett

Blanton Bartlett was the President of Hannibal Industries, Inc., (Hannibal) a company that designed, developed and manufactured material handling products in Los Angeles and Houston. He was the President for 22 years and the Vice President of Finance for 10 years.

Blanton was responsible for managing all executive decisions and key policy implementations at Hannibal. He led the formation of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in 2008 when Hannibal was acquired from its parent company and the subsequent sale of the ESOP to a Fortune 400 company in 2022. The sale of the ESOP was at a compound annual growth rate of 40%.

Prior to joining Hannibal, Blanton was an Audit Manager at Ernst & Whinney, the predecessor to Ernst & Young.

Blanton earned a B.S. from California State University – Sacramento and his son graduated in 2024 from the University Wisconsin-Madison with a major in Economics.