Minarik Automation & Control hired Ken Tevebaugh as sales manager of the Charlotte, N.C., facility...The Bostwick-Braun Co. hired Michael Deerwester as a key accounts manager for its Industrial Supply Division... The board of directors of Storeroom Solutions, Inc., elected Carlos L. Tellez as chief executive officer...B&D Industrial announced that its board of directors elected Howard Gainey as a vice president...Endries International hired Brien Yost as purchasing manager, and promoted Dan Stieber to vice president of operations...

Kennametal, Inc., elected Timothy R. McLevish, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd., to its board of directors... Werner Ladder Co. named Steven P. Richman president and chief executive officer...

MRO Software, Inc., elected David Campbell to its board of directors... Rockwell Automation, Inc. elected president and chief executive officer Keith D. Nosbusch as chairman of the board...

Mike Tracy of Select Sales and Marketing, Fairfield, Ohio, won the Sales Rep of the Year award for 2004 from Cannon Distributing, Carbondale, Ill....Laystrom Manufacturing Co. named Wallace Electronic Sales of Kernersville, N.C., as its exclusive sales representatives for the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.