PEOPLE

By Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 5/1/2000

DISTRIBUTORS

Gerotech, Inc. named Leslie Charbarneau manager of its tooling division. He will oversee operations, sales, purchasing and customer service... Flo-Pac Corp. named Jim Kilroy its Southeast field sales manager... Miller Bearings, Inc., elected Craig O. Faber corporate secretary... H & C Tool Supply appointed Mike Wunsch sales application specialist... Integrated Technologies, Inc. named Scott Moorman vice president of operations and Laura Swetland administrative assistant... Paxis LLC appointed Richard G. Piontek vice president sales and marketing... Holt & McArdle Associates, Inc. appointed Richard Murr to sales representative for its southern territory... Pacific Pipe Company appointed David Mirliss CEO and president... W.W. Grainger, Inc. named Y.C. Chen vice president international Internet commerce, a newly created position, and named Patrick H. Davidson vice president information services. Davidson succeeds James T. Ryan, named president of Grainger.com. Chen and Davidson also are new company officers. Elizabeth Olig was named president of a new Internet business unit, TotalMRO.com... Strategic Distribution, Inc., elected William R. Berkley chairman of the board of directors. Andrew M. Bursky, chairman since 1988, will remain a director of the company. Bursky resigned as chairman March 15... Peerless Paper Mills, Inc. appointed Arne Halstensen and Jerry Hartman as sales representatives. Halstensen's sales territory is the upper Midwest and Hartman's is Virginia...

SOFTWARE/TECHNOLOGY

Prophesy Transportation Software, Inc., named Gordon Perrins vice president of development... Supply Chain Council elected Burt Rabinowitz to its board of directors. Rabinowitz is vice president of Supply Chain Management with Intermec Technologies Corp... Sterling Commerce named Jim Hoyt senior vice president of E-Business Process Integration Development... bestroute.com LLC made several appointments, including David T. Kerrigan to lead its ERP team; Robert J. Triggs to direct planning and logistics; Andrew L. Cummings to lead its Web team; and Michelle B. Cook as administrative assistant...

MANUFACTURERS

Pactiv Corp. announced its new executive team: James D. Morris, vice president and general manager of protective and flexible packaging; John Schwab, vice president and general manager consumer products; Peter Lazaredes, vice president and general manager foodservice, supermarket and institutional packaging; Jan Reeves, vice president business management; Kevin Quinn, vice president manufacturing; Ken Hinett, vice president engineering; Said Farha, vice president, product development; Michelle Leissner, director, finance. All are based in North America... Eskay Screw Corp. appointed: Michael "Mike" Flannery president, Melissa Callahan human resources administrator and Joanne Papas and Julee Mortensen inside sales representatives. Flannery replaces E.J. "Skip" Stehle who is relocating to Ohio... Thomas & Betts Corp.'s electrical components group named Mike Gallagher president of its industrial division... Sales & Marketing, Inc. hired Tom Stokes...Richco Inc. appointed Rick Streicher president...Interroll Corp. named Mark Dorpinghaus regional sales manager... Pass & Seymour/Legrand promoted Robert P. Smith executive vice president of sales and marketing; Tim Burnham vice president of marketing; Fred Kandel vice president of new market development for Legrand, North America; James D. Taggart president of Pass & Seymour Canada; while Joseph C. Wurz was promoted to vice president of engineering at Pass & Seymour's corporate headquarters in Syracuse, N.Y... Olympia Group, Inc. named Brian Henson general manager of its continental abrasives division... Tennant Co. added Terrell Abbott to its manufacturers representative group... International Motion Control Inc. appointed E. Wayne Foley president of Cleveland Motion Controls, Inc. and IMC's controls group... SpanSet USA hired Sean P. Burke as product manager of its load-control and lifting products... Bostik announced Jeffrey Weinstein will oversee all sales and marketing initiatives for its industrial, construction and MRO distribution business... Greenfield Industries named Philip Metz as its managing director of gages and international sales... C & D Technologies, Inc. announced Dr. Kathryn R. Bullock will be vice president of technology. Dr. Bullock replaces Dr. Les Holden who retired in January after 10 years with C & D... JET Equipment & Tools announced Donald Bell will be director of sales and marketing for its group sales. Bell will work in the Midwest. Bell joins Michael Hughes, director of sales and marketing, Eastern region, and George Blanchfield, director of sales and marketing, Western region.