Border States Electric Names David White Executive VP
Border States Electric (BSE) (Fargo, N.D.): David White, currently Shealy Electrical Wholesalers’ president, will become the executive vice president of BSE Aug. 1. BSE’s acquisition of Shealy Electrical Wholesalers will close August 1.
“David has a proven track record,” said Tammy Miller, BSE ‘s CEO in a press release. His ability to grow sales, integrate acquisitions and build a strong leadership team will complement our team and help us execute our strategic plan. David is a natural leader and is well respected in our industry, having served on National Association of Electrical Distributors and Affiliated Distributors boards. His 27 years in our industry and past 17 years with Shealy have prepared him well for the executive vice president position.”
“I’m excited for the opportunity to join the Border States leadership team, and I look forward to working with employee-owners of Border States to make our company—our 100 percent employee-owned ESOP company—the best it can be,” added White in the press release.
White will join BSE’s executive leadership team; he will report to the CEO, and his direct reports will include the senior vice president of sales – Construction and Industrial, the senior vice president of sales – Utility, the vice president of Marketing and five regional vice presidents. With this move, David and his wife, Therese, will relocate to Fargo. David and Therese have three grown boys and in their spare time enjoy travel, outdoor activities and spending time with friends and family.
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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.