People On the Move - August 22, 2025 Update

Exec news at Zekelman, Viking Electric, Forward Solutions, Robroy and Epicor.
Aug. 22, 2025
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Jeff Cole (left) and Chris Hoyt
Jeff Cole (left) and Chris Hoyt

Zekelman Industries (Chicago, IL)

Jeff Cole has been named COO and Chris Hoyt (Above) has been appointed president of Atlas Tube.
Cole began his career with Atlas Tube as a mill operator and is a 32-year veteran of the company, most recently serving as president of Atlas Tube. 
Hoyt succeeds Cole at Atlas Tube. In Hoyt’s new role as president of that company, he will be responsible for the overall success of Atlas Tube with direct oversight of sales, service and production planning teams. Hoyt joined Zekelman in 2022 as the vice president of Sales. Atlas Tube and is a seasoned commercial leader having held multiple sales leadership roles in the U.S. steel industry prior to joining Atlas Tube.

Viking Electric/Sonepar (St. Paul, MN)

Charlie Bradburn was appointed president. Viking Electric serves customers across Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago through 23 branch locations and more than 900 associates.
Bradburn joins Viking Electric with over two decades of experience in distribution, including leadership positions at Lyman Companies and its parent company, US LBM Holdings, LLC, where he most recently held the position of Regional VP for the Midwest. 

Forward Solutions (Alpharetta, GA)

Colleen Mocko was appointed CFO. She brings more than 20 years of experience in financial leadership across private equity-sponsored companies in the electric, utility infrastructure, healthcare and software sectors. She most recently served as CFO of Sparkstone Electrical Group, leading the company through a successful recapitalization and sale.
Forward Solutions provides centralized operational resources to  reps in various niche industries. It entered the electrical market with its 2023 acquisitions of RB Sales Corp., Hiawatha, IA, and ElectroRep, Irvine, CA, and its 2025 acquisitions of Field Electrical Sales, Lebanon, OH.  


Robroy Industries’ Enclosures Division (Belding, MI)

Keith Phillips was hired as a new program sales representative.

Epicor (Austin, TX)

Kerrie Jordan, an ERP industry veteran, was appointed chief marketing officer. 
Since 2023, Jordan has served as Group VP of Product Management and ISV Partner Programs at Epicor, where she’s driven the company’s Cognitive ERP roadmap, an AI-driven approach that transforms ERP from a system of record to a system of action and insight. Prior to Epicor, Jordan held product marketing leadership roles at Oracle. Before Oracle, she also drove strategic marketing programs for enterprise technology clients as part of her consulting roles at global marketing firms. Jordan is also a frequent Forbes Tech Council contributor. She holds a bachelor's of science in Marketing from Santa Clara University.