PEOPLE

By Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 7/1/2000

DISTRIBUTORS

Newark Electronics, part of Premier Farnell plc, named Ken Jochum vice president of human resources... Weber Distribution hired Bob Lilja as director of transportation and Mike Fitton as business development executive for its Midwest region... Weimer Bearing & Transmission promoted Chris Wagner to general manager... Newark Electronics named Tony Chien vice president and general manager of e-commerce... W.W. Grainger selected Kathy Hebb to be vice president, product management. She replaces Bob Thrush who recently was named vice president, national accounts... Warren Electric Group's Cheryl Thompson-Draper received several awards recently, including the U.S. Small Business Administration's District Directors Award and a Woman of Excellence award from the State of Texas... Applied Industrial Technologies appointed Mark L. Cuthbert vice president, industrial product management and Chris Christensen to vice president, fluid power business development. Ronald P. Gilstrap has been appointed vice president, industry and strategic alliances and Marion R. Stoneburner is now vice president, engineered systems and automation division. Salvatore "Sal" Spada is vice president and general manager, air and hydraulics and Dees fluid power...

MANUFACTURERS

Industrial Holdings, Inc. elected Michael N. Marsh to be president and chief executive officer... SETCO promoted John Garratt to president... Brady Corp. elected Mary K. Bush and Frank R. Jarc to its board of directors... Illinois Tool Works selected David T. Flood to be its executive vice president... Adalet hired John T. Whalen to be its southern California regional sales manager and chose Eric S. Snavely as product manager... Ingersoll-Rand Co. appointed Peter Hong to be vice president and treasurer and elected Herbert L. Henkel as chairman of the company. Henkel succeeds James E. Perrella, chairman since 1993... Nobles announced Jeff Elenbaas will be marketing manager... CTS Corp. named James A. Hart vice president and general manager. James M. LaNeve was named controller for its RF integrated modules... ASCO appointed Richard Laporte to vice president, sales Americas... Bourns, Inc. promoted Darryl Craft to direct its Trimpotrproduct line and Gary Straker to general manager of its Multifuserproduct line... White Systems, Inc. appointed Richard C. Frye as vice president sales and marketing... Bradley Corp. hired Tom Tan as its West Coast sales manager... Burkert USA named Andrew Harris to the newly created position of vice president of marketing...The Timken Co. announced Jacqueline F. Woods was elected to its board of directors for a three-year term. She has served as president of Ameritech Ohio. Re-elected to the board of directors were Stanley C. Gault, John M. Timken, Jr. and W. R. Timken, Jr...Eskay Screw Corp. promoted Richard G. "Dick''Boyett to vice president, sales and marketing... Lintern Corp. announced Mike Considder is now sales manager... NSK Corp. promoted John Ellis to the position of vice president, finance and information systems technology. David Bradshaw has joined NSK as director of finance...M agline, Inc. appointed Michael Kirby vice president of marketing and international business development. Kirby replaces Bruce Law, who will serve as vice chairman of Magline's board of directors. Joe Hatfield joins Magline as product applications specialist... Cooper Industries announced Alain J. P. Belda, currently president and chief executive officer of Alcoa, stepped down from Cooper's board of directors... Dimco-Gray hired Randy King as its accounting assistant... CTS named Patrick J. Dennis senior vice president finance and chief financial officer... Metal Coatings International Inc. named Brian Glowacki and Ken Casolari account executives for its DACROMETrand GEOMETrlines of corrosion resistant coatings... The C.H. Hanson Co. promoted Michael J. Meegan to vice president, sales and marketing for North America... Dana Corp. appointed chief executive officer Joseph Magliochetti company chairman. He succeeds Southwood Morcott as chairman. Morcott announced in October he would retire from Dana after 37 years with the auto parts supplier... NewAge Industries announced two promotions. Dan Austin will be territory manager for the company's Rocky Mountain and West Coast regions. Michael Vaughan is now sales/service representative of NewAge's Midwest and North Central regions...

SOFTWARE/TECHNOLOGY

Project Software & Development Inc. named Peter Rice chief financial officer. He replaces Paul Birch, who resigned in February... IBM's Integrated Warehouse Solutions & Supply Chain Logistics Practice selected Lawrence "Rusty" Griffin as a solutions integration architect... AssetTrade named Gavin Kerr interim chief executive officer. He also will serve as chief operations officer. Kerr replaces former chief executive officer and company founder Robert Kohn, who resigned to pursue other business interests... J.D. Edwards selected Jim Maikranz as senior vice president and Juergen Kuebler as vice president... Lawson Software announced Jay Coughlan would become its president and chief operating officer. Richard Lawson will now be chief executive officer and William Lawson, Sr. remains chairman of the board... PurchasingCenter.com appointed George McHorney chief financial officer and Mark Overington vice president of marketing. Eric Pyenson is vice president and general counsel... MindFlow Technologies added Judy Hollis to its board of directors and Lisa M. Ellram, Ph.D. to its board of advisors... ShipLogix named Dennis Koziol and Wayne Chapman vice president of business development for the Midwest and West, respectively. Stephanie Shearer has joined the company as director of business development.

CLARIFICATION:

In a June story, "Fastener Sales Hold Steady," p. 94, Joe McIlhon's former position with Iowa Industrial Products, Inc. was incorrectly stated. McIlhon was vice president of the company before becoming vice president of the Cedar Falls division of IIP/Bossard.