People Sept. 30, 2005

Sept. 30, 2005
Griffith Electric Supply recently announced several appointments.

Griffith Electric Supply Co. Inc. (Trenton, N.J.): Griffith Electric Supply recently announced the following appointments. Margaret Kline, who has been with the company for 15 years, has been promoted to executive vice president. Dave Young, also a 15-year Griffith veteran, was promoted to branch manager at Griffith’s newest location in Robbinsville, N.J. Pat Standish joined the company as branch manager for the Somerville, N.J., branch. Ronald A. Lim joins Griffith as sales manager. Previously, Lim was president of sales and marketing for Genlyte-Crescent/Stonco.

Providence Pipe Products (Canyon Country, Calif.): With more than 40 years of electrical industry experience, Merle Bassett joins Providence Pipe Products as national sales manager.

Super Vision International Inc. (Orlando, Fla.): Mike Bauer has been appointed president and CEO effective Jan. 1, 2006. Bauer has served as the company’s vice president of sales and marketing for the past year and was recommended by Super Vision’s current president/CEO, Brett Kingstone, to succeed him. Kingstone will remain president and CEO until Bauer takes office on Jan. 1; Kingstone will then continue as chairman of the board.

Leviton Manufacturing Co. (Little Neck, N.Y.): David Weigand has been appointed product manager for lighting management systems. Weigand has more than 25 years of industry experience.

Allied Moulded Products Inc. (Bryan, Ohio): Larry Kujala has been appointed director of business development. Previously, Kujala has held marketing and sales management, business development management and vice president of marketing and sales positions during more than 25 years experience with GE, Cooper Industries and Invensys.

Emerson Network Power (Columbus, Ohio): Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, announced that Earle Weaver has been named president of Liebert North America. Weaver joins Liebert from Emerson’s White-Rodgers division, where he served as president.

JJI Lighting Group Inc. (Greenwich, Conn.): Jim Fowler has been appointed vice president and general manager for both Vista Lighting and Morlite, divisions of JJI Lighting Group. With more than 30 years of experience in the lighting and electrical industries, Fowler most recently served as vice president, brand manager of Vista Lighting. He will continue to work from Vista’s headquarters in Erie, Pa.

Ideal Industries Inc. (Sycamore, Ill.): Tim Dye has been promoted to district sales manager of the company’s newly-created Midwest district. Until he assumed his new responsibilities, Dye had been a senior area sales manager.