Irick to lead new combined sales organization at GE Lighting
GE Lighting, East Cleveland, Ohio, is aligning its Lighting Solutions sales and applications solutions teams with its North America professional sales teams under a single structure and single leader. Jaime Irick, who has been leading GE Lighting Solutions -- GE's LED and lighting fixtures business -- will now be responsible for all sales activities of all lighting technologies in GE Lighting's commercial and industrial product portfolio as general manager for the new organization named North America Professional Solutions. Dan Jenkins will continue to lead GE Lighting's professional sales team that will now be part of this single organization. He and his sales teams will report to Irick. Prior to this realignment, GE's LED and non-LED sales organizations were separate functions. Details
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