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Current (Greenville, SC)
Bill Tolley (photo) was appointed as interim CEO. Departing CEO Manish Bhandari was instrumental in leading the company through the pandemic and the acquisition of Hubbell’s C&I Lighting business.
Tolley has served on Current’s board of directors for several years. He has decades of experience in the electrical and lighting industry as a long-time senior executive of Hubbell. He will focus on implementing the company’s strategic and tactical agendas while identifying and onboarding a permanent CEO.
Turtle & Hughes (Linden, NJ)
The company’s Integrated Supply division promoted Blake Varbero to vice president, Business Development, responsible for leading the division’s national sales efforts. Varbero has spent his entire Turtle & Hughes 13-year career in this division, which provides MRO (maintenance & repair operations) supply chain services to Fortune 100 companies. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a minor in Business.
Schaedler Yesco Distribution (Harrisburg, PA)
Matt Healy is now residential construction sales manager. Schaedler Yesco has built a reputation serving the industrial and commercial market, and is now working to also build sales in the residential market. Healy has been with Schaedler Yesco since 2019 as a customer experience manager.
Crawford Electric Supply/Sonepar (Houston)
Regional Vice President Tim Horny, a 18-year-company veteran, will be retiring March 31. He has more than 40 years of industry experience and established the distributor’s San Antonio market. The press release said Horny built a successful career recruiting talented associates, mentoring future generations of leaders, executing strategic plans that increased market share and contributed to shaping the company’s profitable growth.
McNaughton-McKay Electric Co. (Madison Heights, MI)
Donald Slominski Jr., chairman and CEO, retired on March 31. The board of directors has appointed Mark Borin to succeed Slominski as CEO on April 1. Following this transition, Slominski will continue to serve on the organization’s board of directors in the role of executive chairman.
Slominski joined McNaughton-McKay Electric Co. in 1996 as the director of finance and was elected president and chief executive officer in 2005. He guided McNaughton-McKay through the successful transition from a family-owned to an employee-owned organization, delivering a number of strategic acquisitions and transforming the company from 800 employees and $450 million revenues to 1,750 employees and $2.2 billion in revenues. Borin joined the McNaughton-McKay leadership team as president in June 2020. Prior to joining the company, Borin spent 12 years at Pentair plc, most recently as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Graybar Electric Co. (St. Louis)
Effective April 1, Andy Ciccone has been named District vice president in Richmond and Mark Hirst has been named vice president of Technology.
Ciccone currently serves as Graybar’s VP and CIO. Since joining the company more than 30 years ago, he has worked in sales, branch management, district management and corporate leadership roles. In his new assignment, he will lead Graybar’s business in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and portions of South Carolina and Tennessee. Ciccone holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration in marketing from Texas A&M University and is a graduate of the Rutgers-Graybar Supply Chain Management Program. He currently serves as director, Architecture and Operations for Graybar.