PPG makes several executive appointments
PPG Industries has made four executive
appointments. All changes are effective
Sept. 1. J. Rich Alexander, PPG executive
vice president, has been appointed to lead
all of PPG’s architectural coatings businesses. In this role, Alexander will direct the
integration of PPG’s current architectural
coatings – EMEA (Europe, Middle East and
Africa) and architectural coatings – Americas and Asia Pacific businesses. In addition,
Alexander will assume executive leadership
responsibility for the Asia Pacific region and
will retain responsibility for PPG’s fiberglass
and flat glass businesses, as well as the purchasing and distribution, and corporate
marketing functions. Alexander, based in
Pittsburgh, Pa., will continue to be a member of PPG’s executive and operating committees and will continue to report to
chairman and CEO Charles Bunch.
Pierre-Marie De Leener, PPG executive
vice president, has been appointed to lead
PPG’s global automotive refinish, protective and marine coatings, and aerospace
businesses. De Leener also will assume executive leadership responsibility for the
Latin America region. He will retain responsibility for PPG’s global information
technology function. De Leener will relocate to Pittsburgh from PPG’s EMEA
headquarters in Rolle, Switzerland. De
Leener will continue to be a member of
PPG’s executive and operating committees
and will continue to report to Bunch.
Viktor Sekmakas, PPG senior vice president, industrial coatings, and president,
PPG Asia Pacific, will be named senior vice
president, industrial coatings, and president,
PPG Europe. Sekmakas will assume leadership responsibility for the EMEA region in
addition to leading the global industrial
coatings and packaging coatings businesses.
Sekmakas will relocate from PPG’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong to Rolle,
Switzerland. Sekmakas will continue to be
a member of PPG’s operating committee
and will continue to report to Bunch.
Michael Horton, vice president, Asia Pacific coatings, and general manager, auto-
motive refinish and architectural coatings,
Asia Pacific, will be named president, PPG
Asia Pacific, and vice president, automotive
refinish and architectural coatings, Asia Pacific. Horton will remain based in Shanghai
and will report to Alexander, executive vice
president, for his Asia Pacific regional and
architectural coatings responsibilities.
Hempel names Stallings group
multinational coordination
manager
Hempel has hired Ben Stallings as the new
group multinational coordination manager.
He will be working in close coordination with
Hempel’s U.S. sales team and primarily focusing on the U.S. based companies that have
major projects overseas. His main tasks will
be to make sure that Hempel is included in
the corporate and project coating specifications of these companies as well as to follow-up and secure these projects together with
Hempel’s sales people in the other regions.
Stallings has more than 20 years of experience
in the oil and gas segment working for global
companies like Halliburton, Schlumberger,
CB&I and Jacobs Engineering. He has spent
more than 11 years of his career working outside the U.S. in Qatar, UAE and France in
business development positions.
Whitford names Pinter
business manager for flexible
finishes in North America
Mike Pinter has been named Whitford’s
new business manager for flexible finishes in North America. Pinter joins
Whitford with more than ten years experience in the development, formulation, validation testing, production and
sales of coatings specifically designed for
use on such flexible substrates as
weather stripping. He has been granted
one patent in the technology and has
three more pending. He spent many
years at Cooper Standard, managing engineers, chemists and technicians on a
wide variety of projects, all dedicated to
issues related to flexible finishes.
Red Devil Equipment Company
adds to sales team
Red Devil Equipment Company has named
Matt Docherty director of sales. He brings
more than 20 years of equipment experience
in the coatings industry and will be headquartered at the corporate headquarters in
Plymouth, MN. Red Devil also announced
that Bob Brockman was promoted to director of sales corporate accounts. In this role,
he will focus his efforts towards managing
business relationships with some of the company’s larger customers.
Peter Zazzaro named vice
president of operations at Dur-A-Flex
Dur-A-Flex, Inc. has named Peter Zazzaro
vice president of operations. Zazzaro is
the former global director of operations,
quality and regulatory affairs for Dymax
Corp., an ISO 9001 certified, global manufacturer of solvent-free, UV light curable
adhesives and systems. Zazzaro joins Dur-A-Flex with more than 20 years of operations and quality experience. While at
Dymax, he managed the operations for
medical device, automotive, electronic and
aerospace chemical and equipment for the
U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to joining
Dymax, Zazzaro spent 19 years with Ger-many-based Henkel Corporation where
he held a number of North American positions in quality, operations, plant and
project management.
Sherwin-Williams’ Brian Skerry
joins SSPC board
Sherwin-Williams announced the election
of Brian Skerry global technical director,
protective and marine coatings, to a four-year term on the board of governors of the
SSPC: The Society of Protective Coatings.
Skerry has published 41 technical papers
and received two Sherwin-Williams
awards and six coatings industry technical
publication awards as well as the National
Association of Corrosion Engineers’ A.B.
Campbell award. CW
