Bridgeport Fittings (Bridgeport, Conn.): David Turk has been appointed director of sales. He will report directly to Paul Suzio, executive vice president. Turk will oversee all sales activities for the business, and will have primary responsibility for the Western sales region. Turk has 26 years of electrical industry experience. Most recently, he was national sales manager and director of sales for Edwards Signaling & Security Systems. He has worked in various senior sales positions with Plymouth Rubber and Midland-Ross/American Electric.
CLS (Hartford, Conn.): John Corey has been named a sales representative in the company’s Manchester, N.H., location. He will service the company’s electrical contracting customers in the Portland/southern Maine area. Previously, Corey owned Industrial Electric Supply of East Newport and Baileyville, Maine.
Lenox (East Longmeadow, Mass.): Rich Wuerthele has been promoted to president of sales. He joined the company in December 2002 as vice president of sales to lead the transition of the sales organization after the acquisition of Lenox by Newell Rubbermaid in January 2003. In his new position, Wuerthele will be responsible for expanding Lenox sales globally and supporting strategic sales initiatives throughout Newell Rubbermaid’s North American Tool Group. He will report to Lenox President Bob Heisner. In addition to his three years with Lenox, Wuerthele has 18 years of tool, hardware and home improvement sales experience.
Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Little Neck, N.Y.): Mike Hadank has been appointed distribution Mid-Atlantic district sales manager. He joined Leviton in 1999 as a construction sales representative covering the southern Illinois, St. Louis and southern Missouri territories. He played an instrumental role in promoting Leviton Integrated Networks’ Installer Certification Program and numerous other Leviton training programs. In his new role, Hadank will spearhead management of the Mid-Atlantic region’s construction and industrial sales, including the MRO, construction and commercial sales environments, as well as oversee sales and marketing management of three outside sales agent firms and a staff of 13 inside sales representatives.
W.A.C. Lighting (Garden City, N.Y.) Gloria Yonkin has been appointed chief financial officer. She will oversee the financial departments, including accounting, accounts payable and accounts receivable. In addition, she will manage operations, which includes order entry, information systems, customer service, warehousing, inventory control and shipping. Yonkin previously served as the director of business transformation for a leading business consulting firm where she completed major financial projects for Fortune 100 companies.
Power Measurement (Victoria, B.C.): Ruston Johnson has been appointed district sales manager for Louisiana, Mississippi and western Tennessee. He will work with the company’s sales team in the western United States. Johnson joined Power Measurement in 2003, after several years with Fluor Daniel.
Vari-Lite, a Genlyte company (Dallas): John Adams has been appointed director of product development. He will direct all engineering and project efforts through his engineering, software and optical staff. Adams is a lighting industry veteran and founder of a U.K. lighting distributor, Lightfactor. Most recently, he directed the engineering, product design and manufacturing operations for Chinese-based Apogee Lighting for the IAG Group.
Toshiba America (Irvine, Calif.): Vincent J. Giovinco has been appointed national sales manager, Medical Imaging/Factory Automation (ME/FA Group). The ME/FA Group is one of two groups under the Imaging Systems division which is part of the Digital Solutions division of Toshiba America Information Systems. Giovinco will oversee sales and marketing activities of the Toshiba brand industrial video cameras, which are used in the factory automation, medical, machine vision, non-destructive testing and specialty video markets.