Leviton's Kleinman now director of marketing for distribution

Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.):Peter Kleinman is now director of marketing for Leviton's distribution channel and will report to William Marshall the company's senior V.P. of sales and marketing,. Kleinman will lead the marketing, branding and advertising for the company's full line of products across the distribution sales channel.

In a career spanning more than 20 years with Leviton, Kleinman has served as senior designer for the marketing communications department where he produced the company's first electronic catalog in 1992; manager of creative and production services for the commercial/industrial division where he named and help market the launch of the Evr-Green Electric Vehicle Charger line; and marketing communications manager for distribution.

Before joining Leviton, he worked for Esquire and National Lampoon magazines; as V.P. of marketing at Sekani Inc., where he built and ultimately sold a company that provided content via the web efficiently for Fortune 500 companies. Kleinman majored in communications and advertising at Pratt Institute, and will be based at Leviton's corporate headquarters.