For immediate release · November 11, 2026 · Cyclone Bolt

HOUSTON, Texas, November 11, 2026. Cyclone Bolt, Inc., a Houston manufacturer of fasteners, threaded products and custom machined components, has added six people to its team in the past 90 days. The new hires work in inside sales, supply chain, finance and marketing.

The hires bring Cyclone to 86 employees: 63 in manufacturing and warehouse across day and night shifts, and 23 in sales, quality, accounting and engineering. The sales team now numbers 11.

“Too much of this industry still runs on voicemail and ‘we’ll get back to you,’” said Joshua Mayes, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cyclone Bolt. “We’re building the opposite: a fastener manufacturer that answers like a software company and documents like an aerospace shop. These six people are how we scale that.”

The new team members are:

  • Ruben Moreno, Controller. Ruben is the company’s first Controller. He runs Cyclone’s accounting department: financial reporting, cash flow and the controls behind them. He also works with the ATLAS development team on the accounting side of the factory operating system Cyclone runs on.

  • Brad Johnson, Director of Marketing. Brad is Cyclone’s first marketing hire. A Houston creative director and filmmaker, he leads the company’s presence on LinkedIn and YouTube, video from the shop floor, trade shows and customer-facing materials.

  • Melissa Wieladek, Supply Chain Manager. Melissa brings fastener industry experience in expediting, shipping coordination, customer service and sales support.

  • Victoria Paige, Inside Sales. Victoria brings more than four years of fastener industry experience in customer service and inside sales.

  • Caylynn Moore, Inside Sales. Caylynn brings account management and customer support experience from industrial equipment suppliers, along with project and logistics work in piping materials.

  • Julie Scholten, Inside Sales. Julie is a fastener industry veteran with more than a decade in inside sales, outside sales and purchasing.

The additions follow Cyclone’s October expansion of its published mil-spec offering: MS, NAS and AN bolts and screws machined to order from certified bar, with no minimum quantity. The company holds AS9100D, AS9120B, ISO 9001:2015, API Spec Q1, API 20E and API 20F certifications and has served more than 1,000 businesses since 2016.

The full team, with direct contact details, is on the team page.

About Cyclone Bolt

Cyclone Bolt, Inc. manufactures fasteners, threaded products and custom machined components in a 41,000-square-foot facility in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2016, the company makes parts to customer drawings and specifications for oil and gas, aerospace and defense, petrochemical, power generation and marine customers. Its quality system is certified to AS9100D, AS9120B, ISO 9001:2015, API Spec Q1, API 20E and API 20F. CAGE code 8HH90.

Media contact: Brad Johnson, Director of Marketing · brad@cyclonebolt.com · 281-372-6050