The Home Depot named Helen Johnson-Leipold to its board of directors…Airgas Inc. appointed Thomas Smyth vice president, controller and chief accounting officer…Affiliated Distributors named Peter Wilkes director of supplier relations for the Electrical Supply Division…Saf-T-Gard International appointed Timothy Olson senior safety specialist…Bunzl Distribution named Mark Sementilli executive vice president, global sourcing, and Earl Engleman senior vice president, corporate strategic sourcing…Vertex Distribution appointed Don Smith new product manager…Hartwig Inc. named Thomas Diercks regional sales director…Motion Industries named Jim Neill vice president of human resources…

QA1 Precision Products Inc. named Cliff Bannon national sales manager of its industrial division…Lenox named Pedro Caceres global vice president of operations…Omaha Standard appointed Mark Thompson director of safety and training, and Todd Pendgraft quotations manager…Axway Inc. named Paul Fowler vice president of healthcare strategy…Hannibal Carbide Tool Inc. named Robert Willet vice president of operations…Streamlight Inc. named Dawn Dalldorf-Jackson director of sales for its industrial division…Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. appointed Steven Richman president…Jet Edge Inc. appointed David Arthur regional sales manager for the southeast…Walter USA appointed Brett Wharton national sales manager for the Walter product line…Ferraz Shawmut named Mark Taylor vice president of OEM sales, and Dean Cousins vice president of business development…Schneider Electric appointed Ralph Harris vice president, U.S. sales…Kennametal named Frank P. Simpkins vice president and CFO and Wayne D. Moser vice president, finance and corporate counsel…Cognis Corp. promoted Chris Toomey to regional vice president of the company's functional products division…Bosch Rexroth named Berend Bracht president and CEO…Ideal Industries Inc. appointed Brian Thomas district sales manager for Texas.