Dave Bucklew has been named Eaton Corp.'s vice president, U.S. sales for global sales and marketing and Ken Narod has been named vice president, Channel.
In his new role, Bucklew will be responsible for providing strategic and operational direction of Eaton’s field-based sales resources, ensuring that the company works to achieve established volume, price, mix and growth objectives. In addition, he will be responsible for establishing commercial processes that allow Eaton to effectively transact business with key customers in a rapidly changing global environment. Bucklew held his most recent position as director, Channel Management, with Eaton for almost five years. Over the last 27 years, he has held a number of positions of increasing leadership responsibility with Westinghouse and Eaton, including OEM national sales manager, Residential/Light Commercial marketing manager, Global Sales Force region manager and district manager. Narod will be responsible for Eaton’s “go-to” market strategies and will lead the development and implementation of an integrated channel strategy across the Electrical Group’s Sales and Marketing organization. In addition, Narod will not only have responsibility for the existing channel organization, but will also assume leadership of the Utility Sales team and the Federal Sales group. Throughout his 29-year tenure with Eaton, Narod’s background includes sales engineer, area sales manager, branch sales manager, as well as district and regional sales manager assignments. He most recently held the position of zone director for the Southeast Zone.