Sonepar Promotes OneSource’s Smith and Mouritzen

Mike Smith, currently president of OneSource Distributors, will be taking on a new role as the CIO and V.P. of operations for Sonepar USA.

Jim Lucy Blog

July 15, 2016

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Sonepar USA (Charleston, S.C.): Mike Smith, currently president of OneSource Distributors, will be taking on a new role as the CIO and V.P. of operations for Sonepar USA. He has held different leadership roles at OneSource for the past 10 years, and has served as the president for the past five years. Sonepar says his strong background and extensive experience in IT infrastructure and business leadership makes him uniquely qualified to fill this important role on the Sonepar USA leadership team.

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As a result of Smith’s new position, Dana Mouritzen, currently senior V.P. of sales for OneSource Distributors, will be taking over the role of president of OneSource. He has been in the electrical distribution industry for over 20 years, starting his distribution career at Orange Country Wholesale prior to its acquisition by OneSource in 2000. Since then, he held different leadership roles at OneSource over the past 16 years, beginning with his role as manager of OneSource’s Industrial Automation Division.

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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.