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MEET THE COMPANY
Meet the Owners


Bud Filler, Founder/Partner
Bud has a degree in wood utilization from Penn State, and a MF in forest products from the University of British Columbia. His background includes summers as a Forest Service smokejumper, two years of active duty as an Army artillery officer and experience as a logger and mill worker before moving into sales and marketing management for Boise Cascade. He has been on the board and served as past president of the American Institute of Timber Construction. His hobbies are flying, skiing, hunting and writing. He and his wife, Ellie, live in Boise, Idaho. They have three sons and two daughters. more

Wayne King, Founder/Partner
Wayne has a degree in forestry from the California State University of Humboldt, and a MBA from the University of Oregon. His background includes summers as a U.S. Forest Service hotshot crewman, logging in northern California and working in mill and regional management for Boise Cascade. He is active on the board and as past president of the Timber Manufacturers Association. His hobbies are flying, aircraft restoration, hunting and backpacking. He lives with his wife, Dorthea, in Boise, Idaho. They have three daughters.

Meet the Sales Staff


Amy Vitek, Sales Manager

Amy started as Traffic Coordinator with Filler King Company. As Filler King continued to grow, she was promoted to sales. Amy has been in sales for 3 years and is currently the Sales Manager. She enjoys the challenges of meeting customer needs and the friendships she has made.

Outside of work, Amy enjoys spending time with her family and friends. Her hobbies include fishing, swimming and showing cutting horses.



Beth Bonner, Sales/Traffic Coordinator

Beth has been with Filler King Company for 3 years.
She began in the shipping department and has recently moved into sales. Among her new job duties she enjoys being able to help customers get the products they need, as well as the new friendships she has begun to make.

When not working, Beth enjoys spending time with family and friends. During the summer months her hobbies include camping, fishing and water-skiing. However, when the weather turns cold she enjoys baking and scrap booking.



Meet the Production Staff
Production Staff

Tony Guzman, Plant Manager

Tony started working for Filler King Company shortly upon graduation from Wilder High School in 1988. Tony started on the production line doing a variety of jobs in the beam lay-up department. As a new addition to the company at the time, he was given the toughest jobs including beam tamping. This job involves using a 40 pound weight on the end of a bar and tamping each lam before clamping up. After working on the line for four years, Tony was promoted to plant quality control supervisor. Tony says, “ I was nervous in this new job, but it was interesting and I wouldn’t have to run the tamper anymore”.

Tony was promoted, several years later, to his current position as Plant Manager. Tony is married and he enjoys being around people, making new friends and takes pride in being part of the Filler King team. Tony is also well known for his cooking abilities as he is in charge of conducting company barbecues. He takes pride in making sure that everyone at FillerKing has a full stomach. 



Jim Griswold, General Manager

Jim Griswold has been our General Manager since February of  2003. Jim comes to us with a vast array of knowledge and expertise in manufacturing, sales and administration, with a 1991 BS in Forest Products from Oregon State.

Jim said, "The past five years have been very exciting here at Filler King.  We have made many plant improvements which have kept things exciting and at the same time challenging.  We have a great team of employees that  really works well together. "

Jim has been married to his beautiful wife Evie for 15 years. They have three children, Madison 12 , Emmalie 11 and Nate 8. He is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hiking, hunting and fishing.



Glenda Johnson, Plant Coordinator & Accounting (right)

Glenda Johnson has been employed by Filler King Company since June of 1989. She began as a finger-joint off-bearer and over the past 20 years she has worked in a variety of jobs in the plant, including deck plant supervisor. Her current responsibilities include overseeing plant scheduling, shipping and inventory. Glenda also serves as plant safety coordinator.

Glenda has been married for 31 years and has two daughters. The elder daughter is attending college and has 2 sons; the younger daughter is in the Navy. Glenda enjoys a variety of activities including family time, reading and gardening. 4-wheeling, camping, hunting and fishing are also on her schedule when time and weather permits.




Lori Davies, ACCOUNTING (left)

Lori has been with FIllerKing for 5 years now and is currently in the accounting department.  She is also in-charge of making all those colorful tags that go on the ends of all the beams you order.  Before FillerKing she has been in retail management for the last 15 years, which included owning and operating a small soup, sandwich & latte shop here in Homedale.

Just recently becoming a new grandma, Lori can be found hanging out with her new beautiful granddaughter, working on the farm, sewing or doing her new found passion, calligraphy.