People News: 2.4.2010

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BICSI’s president—it’s Brian Hansen, RCDD, a specification sales engineer for Leviton Network Solutions (in the North Central region). He’s been in the biz for more than 23 years and will serve as president of the organization until Jan. 12.

Installers of the Year—nine men were honored with Installer of the Year honors during BICSI’s winter conference, including:

• first place ITS Installer 1—James Sundy, Staley (Little Rock, Ark.)
• first place ITS Installer 2—Jeffrey Johnson, Staley (Little Rock, Ark.)…(note, not a mistake!)
• first place, ITS installer 3—Jesse Spearman, Vision Technologies (Ranson, W.Va.).

See release.

Brian Ensign

One of the directors—Legrand/Ortronics issued a release noting that Brian Ensign, RCDD, NTS, OSP, CSI, was re-elected as Northeast Regional Director of BICSI. He’ll serve a second term (2010-11).

TR-42 group—the TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems engineering committee held leadership elections in November. The member organization, the Telecommunications Industry Organization, provided election results here. Of note:

• Paul Kish of Belden was elected chair of TR-42.5, Telecommunications Infrastructure Terms & Symbols.
• Valerie Maguire, global sales engineer for Siemon, was elected to a fifth consecutive term on TR-42.7, the Copper Cabling Systems Subcommittee (a company release alerted TedMag to that development).

Moves, Adds, & Switches

AETI ADDS TWO—Marcelo Garcia and Dean Swift have joined American Electric Technologies. Garcia is manager of the High Voltage Services group in Houston; he had been sales and operations manager in that city for Electrical Power Systems. Swift will be manager for Beaumont Services; he had been with Coastal Switchgear.

EATON FILLS NEW SLOTS—

Richard Holder

When the newly formed Electrical Components Organization at Eaton needed a new president, the company put Richard Holder in the position. He came to the company in 2001 as vice president of supply chain and operational excellence in the Electrical Group (after serving at US Airways and Allied Signal). Most recently, he was executive vice president for Eaton Business System. Note: The ECO combines the industrial controls, residential products, and low-voltage and medium-voltage circuit breakers divisions.

Kenneth Narod

Recently, Eaton created a new position: Segment director—U.S. government. On March 1, Kenneth Narod will take the job, working with people in Eaton’s electrical, hydraulics, and vehicle businesses “to develop a coordinated approach to growing sales with the U.S. government.” Narod has been with the company for 31 years; until March, he fills the slot of vice president-channel for the Electrical Sector’s Americas Region.

ENCELIUM HIRES PARADISO—Anthony Paradiso has been hired as director of sales (Mid-Atlantic) for Encelium Technologies. He moved over from Professional Electric Products, a distributor, where he was director of sales and marketing.

Steve Syers	Jan McQuain
HALCO’S NEW HIRES—Halco Lighting Technologies has added Steve Syers (senior sales manager for customer support) and Jan McQuain (national accounts manager). Syers had been president of Franchise Gator; then the company was sold. McQuain has obtained several certifications, including TQC Certification for ISO-9001.

INTERMATIC’S THREE PROMOTIONS—

• Rick Boutilier is now president/CEO at Intermatic; he came to work there (as CFO) in 2004. He was promoted to COO in 2008.
• Gary Koetters is now vice president of sales. He, too, joined in 2004; most recently, he was director of industrial and retail sales.
• Deb Peterson is now vice president of marketing and product development. She joined Intermatic in 2007 (coming over from Motient, where she had been senior vice president).

Randall Booth	Julie Jozwik
KNIPEX RECRUITS TWO—Randall Booth and Julie Jozwik have joined KNIPEX-Tools. Booth, now a sales manager, had been with Minerallac; he previously worked at Bosch Tools, AEG Power Tools, and Hughes Supply. Jozwik left the mobile devices division of Motorola to work at KNIPEX’s sales and marketing operation, an assignment that the company said includes developing “social media plans and platforms.”

Scott Bausch

LEGRAND/P&S ELEVATES BAUSCH—Scott Bausch is now director of product marketing for Legrand/Pass & Seymour. He joined the company in 2004 as product line manager; most recently, he was marketing manager for commercial and industrial products.

M.K. MORSE MAKES MOVES—

• Now serving as vice president of national accounts at M.K. Morse is Lawrence (Chip) Tomlinson, who has been with the company for 10-plus years (in sales and marketing).
• Philip Metz has been hired on at Morse as industrial division sales director for Europe, Asia, and Australia. He brings “extensive” international sales experience with him.
• Also on an international tack, Carl Sparwer, who hired on in April 2008 as regional manager for Europe, is now the commercial division sales manager for the international business unit at Morse.

Ken Fairleigh

RITTAL’S NEW PRESIDENT—Ken Fairleigh, who worked previously at Fluke, GE, and Square D, has joined Rittal to serve as president.

SIEMENS NAMES U.S. PRESIDENT/CEO—Eric Spiegel, previously a senior partner at Booz & Company consulting firm, is now president and CEO of Siemens’ U.S. operations. He comes with 25 years of experience in the energy, manufacturing, utility, and healthcare industries.

WESTERN FORGE’S NEW GM—Randy Thompson, a 22-year veteran at IDEAL Industries, has been named general manager for Western Forge (a company IDEAL just acquired).