If he's being really honest, PFT President Andrew Ingram will admit that he founded Performance Field Testing mostly so he could take a bunch of cool new products outside and use/wear/challenge them. But when he's playing the role of the serious business professional, he'll tell you with a straight face that his long career in manufacturing -- including a ten-year stint at a leading national apparel and equipment company where he gained valuable experience in sales and merchandising and where he ended up running the in-house testing department -- prepared him for the grueling demands of his current job.