EGS Electrical Group announces several promotions

EGS Electrical Group, (Rosemont, Ill.): Jean-Baptiste Trolle has been promoted to the position of V.P. of marketing and business development of the ECM business segment. Trolle has been with the EGS organization since its acquisition of ATX in 1998, ...
Nov. 11, 2010
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EGS Electrical Group, (Rosemont, Ill.): Jean-Baptiste Trolle has been promoted to the position of V.P. of marketing and business development of the ECM business segment. Trolle has been with the EGS organization since its acquisition of ATX in 1998, serving the company in various sales and marketing roles. In this new role he will manage the Appleton and O-Z/Gedney product marketing team, the sales and marketing integration of the newly-acquired Nutsteel business, and the acquisition activity supporting EGS.

The company also announced several other promotions. Kerry Nedic has been promoted to the position of director, pricing and technical support; Jason Overbey is being promoted to director of marketing; and Dan Douglass is being promoted to director of marketing responsible for sales support and business development.

In other personnel changes at Emerson, Craig Morris has been promoted to the newly-created position of V.P., global accounts. Kevin Jacks, currently director of global accounts, will replace Morris as director of sales, Southwest Region.

Jim Gibson has been appointed to area manager, Canada for Appleton, O/Z-Gedney and SolaHD. A 15-year veteran of the electrical and automation industry, he joined EGS in 2005, and has held positions of ascending responsibility within SolaHD, most recently Northeast Region manager.

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