Rexel SA (Paris): The company’s has appointed Pier Luigi Sigismondi as a member of its supervisory board. He replaces Françoise Gri, who has stepped down from the supervisory board to reduce her number of directorships.
Sigismondi has been a member of Unilever’s executive board and has served as the company’s chief supply chain officer since 2009. Prior to that he worked for Nestlé SA, where he was V.P. of corporate operations strategies, based in Switzerland, in charge of industrial strategies of the group worldwide as well as management of global cost improvement programs before moving to Nestlé Mexico in 2005 as V.P. of operations and R&D. He started his career in consulting, first with Booz Allen & Hamilton and later with AT Kearney. An Italian national, he holds a masters degree in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.