Featured Folks
Cecil Greene—Shealy
Electrical Wholesalers sent along a note telling us that Greene just turned
90 years old and is celebrating his 50th year with the company. He
serves as a utility consultant.
Sandi Howlett—with
Ainsworth (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Howlett is the incoming chairman of the
board for the Electrical Apparatus Service Association.
Jason Loch—he won the Great Montana IEC state Wireoff
competition. He’s with Schine Electric in Havre, Mont., and is a graduate of
the Great Falls IEC Electrical Apprenticeship school, according to the Great
Falls Tribune (Aug. 7).
Moves, Adds & Switches
REXEL SA ADDS GIET–
with a 20-year career in advertising and corporate communication, Pascale Giet
is now senior vice president of communications and sustainable development for
Rexel in Paris. The 47-year-old most recently worked for six years with Europ
Assistance; she left for Rexel from the post of vice president for corporate
social responsibility.
Chairman & CEO Removed
Lee Vanatta’s resigned as chairman
and CEO of PureSpectrum, according to this Aug. 25 SEC filing. The filing included these words:
The Directors judge these actions by management to be malfeasance of duty
and willful misconduct on behalf of management. Furthermore, the Directors
find that management's repeated failure to deliver on any revenue or sales
projections presented to the Board of Directors and refusal to engage in any
significant cost-cutting measures to be gross and negligent mismanagement
of company, and therefore, shareholder assets.
PureSpectrum is an insolvent company. It is likely that the Company will
not continue operations. The Directors will use their best efforts to identify
potential investors who might inject capital into the company in order to
preserve some value for the company's shareholders and seek management that
will cooperate promptly, fully, and truthfully with any request for information
made by such investors. There is no guarantee, however, that any such efforts
will be successful.
Lighting People
EYE’S NEW VEEP—EYE
Lighting International has lured Robert Freitag away from Philips Day-Brite,
where he was a product manager for Philips Capri, according to a release. He’ll
now serve as EYE’s vice president of marketing.
ILT NAMES MATAS—International
Light Technologies named Richard Matas, who has more than 30 years of
sales experience in electronics and electrical, as Western regional sales manager
for the Innovations Group (in which you’ll find the LED product line).
LBL ADDS SORENSON—Steve
Sorenson is now vice president and general manager for LBL Lighting. His
experience includes marketing posts at Elkay and Warmly Yours; earlier in his
career, he worked for The Stiffel Company.
ORION APPOINTS PRESIDENT—Michael
Potts has been named president and COO of Orion Energy Systems. With 20
years behind him in energy management, he served the company most recently as
executive vice president, after having joined the company in 2001.
Libbe Milicia |
PROGRESS HIRES MILICIA—Libbe Milicia has joined Progress
Lighting as director of product development. She brings more than 20 years
of consumer-focused, lifestyle-driven design and product development (for
manufacturers in the lighting industry) with her. |
Michael Maltezos |
SCHREDER’S NEW DOT SPECIALIST—Michael Maltezos
is now DOT transit and tunnel specialist for Schreder Lighting. He brings
25-plus years of experience in electrical and construction engineering,
project management, and lighting design management with him. |
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