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Graybar's Reynolds Named NAW Chairman

Feb. 6, 2006
NAW elected its slate of officers for 2006. Robert A. Reynolds Jr., chairman/president/CEO of Graybar Electric Co., was named chairman of the NAW board of directors.

National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW, Washington, D.C.): NAW members have elected Robert A. Reynolds Jr., chairman/president/CEO of Graybar Electric Co., St. Louis, as chairman of the NAW board of directors. Reynolds succeeds Sydney "Tucker" Jones, president, Hudson Valley Paper Co., Albany. Jones will remain active on the NAW board as immediate past chairman. The following leaders were also elected NAW officers for 2006: Chairman-Elect Raymon A. York, CEO of Ewing Irrigation Products, Phoenix; First Vice Chairman C.S. "Chip" Hornsby, president and CEO of Feguson Enterprises, Newport News, Va.; Second Vice Chairman Randy Lindberg, president of the Western region of United National Foods Inc., Yorba Linda, Calif.; Secretary Robert N. Taylor, president and CEO of DO it Best Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind.; and NAW President and Chief Executive Officer Dirk Van Dongen.