PEOPLE

By Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 2/1/2001

DISTRIBUTORS

Crescent Electric Supply appointed Jeff Hoyt the new manager of the San Marcos, Calif., distribution facility and Fred Rockafellow as the manager of the new Dallas, Texas, distribution facility... Hagemeyer North America appointed Christopher C. Nowell vice president and treasurer and Richard Harrison executive vice president and chief operating officer of Vallen Corp. .... The BC Bearing Group appointed Robert S. MacPherson chief executive officer... The Bostwick-Braun Co. appointed Michael F. Dastoli the new director of merchandizing... David Pfeil replaced his father Vince Pfeil as president of Fluid-Air Products, Inc. ... Marmom/Keystone promoted Stan Quarles of Canton, Ga., to account manager for the Atlanta branch and appointed David Grothe to account manager at the Chicago service center... Insupco of Temecula, Calif., appointed Brian B. Shaw sales and marketing manager of its industrial supply products...

MANUFACTURERS

The Gates Rubber Co. named Patrick Lee vice president of the industrial sales division... Quest Technologies, Inc. elected Mark Mazzo vice president and general manager of the Rochester Technical Center, Jim Banach vice president of operations, and Cliff Wolcott vice president of marketing... Nylok Fastener Corp. appointed Nilo Urbani vice president of sales and marketing and Gregory Alaimo corporate engineering manager... Walter Waukesha, Inc. appointed Peter Witteczek and Rick Martin to the board of directors and named Jim Strolberg national manager of special tooling and projects... The National Electrical Manufacturers Assn. named Peter McIlroy II , chairman and chief executive officer of Robroy Industries, Inc. , NEMA's new chairman of the board... DE-STA-CO Industries appointed Scott Foster to the company's newly created position of plant account manager... National Chemical Laboratories, Inc. appointed Chris Robertson regional sales representative for New England and Eastern New York and Joe Cooper division manager for the company's new Stone Care SolutionsT maintenance program... Pentair, Inc. announced Frank J. Feraco, formerly president of Textron's Industrial Products Segment, will join the company as president and chief operating officer of the Tools Group ... Coleman Cable appointed Earl Porter western regional manager for the wire and cable distribution channel... Dimco-Gray Co. hired Gary Moore as management accountant, Fred Lehnert as sales coordinator for the plastic division and promoted Erin Grim to sales coordinator for the timer division... JLG Industries, Inc. promoted Thomas D. Singer to the position of senior vice president of general counsel and secretary... Diamond Saw Works, Inc. appointed Tim Swift director of marketing and sales... The duMont Co. appointed William A. Dufraine president, succeeding Peter Elliott... Bardo Abrasives appointed Eric Smith field applications expert. He will cover West Pennsylvania, Ohio, and N. West Virginia... CTS Corp. named Matthew W. Long assistant treasurer... Frazier Industrial Co. appointed Carlos Oliver president... Channellock, Inc. announced the addition of Mark A. Yoder as national sales manager... Joe Murdock joined Accuride as director of international business development and Gilles Olivier joined the company as international market manager ... Flexco promoted Martin J. O'Neill to the new position of western regional sales manager... Cooper Industries, Inc . promoted Ralph E. Jackson, Jr. to the new position of chief operating officer, designated Terry A. Klebe chief information technology officer, and named David A. White, Jr. the company's new venture development officer...... Textron Fastening Systems appointed Camilla Denison president of its automotive solutions-Americas group... Best Manufacturing named James Richard "Brian" Peet product line manager and named Cynthia Heim Smith its new territory manager for Minnesota, North Dakota, and parts of South Dakota, and Iowa... Bahco Tools, Inc. appointed Dallas W. Stuck director of training and sales development... Magline, Inc. appointed Steve Perry director of engineering and manufacturing... Nachi America, Inc. appointed Toshio Sugiura president of Nachi America and named Steve Itoh chairman/CEO of Nachi groups ... Leeson Electric Corp. appointed Jeffrey R. Hubert vice president of sales and marketing... DE-STA-CO Industries appointed John Laing to senior product engineer... Saf-T-Gard International, Inc. appointed Ron A. DiMarzio its new senior market manager for the meat and poultry markets... Haas Automation, Inc. appointed Tim Brooks Haas Factory Outlets business manager... Louisville Ladder Group LLC promoted Mark Anton to national marketing manager and Gordon Hunter to national sales manger... JLG Industries, Inc. promoted Geoffrey G. Campbell to senior vice president of international operations and appointed current president and CEO William M. Lasky to the position of chairman of the board...

SOFTWARE/TECHNOLOGY

HK Systems, Inc. appointed Paul Probst vice president of the food and beverage center of excellence (COE)... IBS Group appointed John O'Connor vice president of sales, with a responsibility for the company's global software sales... Buzzsaw.com, Inc. appointed John Browne chief technology officer... HandySource.com appointed Steve Dabbs chief financial officer, promoted Bob Milhoan to vice president of e-commerce, and named Brian Geverd director of marketing communications.