Gordon Takes Over CEO Role at Winsupply

Roland Gordon has been named as Winsupply's CEO effective Jan. 31. He retains his title as president of Winsupply. Jack Johnston is stepping down from the executive leadership role after leading the company through successive years of record growth.
Jan. 25, 2017
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​Winsupply Inc. (Dayton, OH): Roland Gordon has been named CEO effective Jan. 31. He retains his title as president of Winsupply. Jack Johnston is stepping down from the executive leadership role after leading the company through successive years of record growth. Johnston remains a member of the Winsupply board of directors. Gordon, who was named president in 2016, has served in leadership roles at Winsupply for 18 years. Johnston joined Winsupply in 1977 as an accountant with Winsupply’s  Group Services unit, which provides complete shared business services for Winsupply local companies.  Back then the corporation was an $84 million company. Today, Winsupply has $2.7 billion in total revenue, and its Electrical business unit is ranked #33 on Electrical Wholesaling’s 2016 Top 200. Johnston also served as WGS treasurer and company CFO, and was promoted to president in July 2011 and CEO in 2015.

Gordon joined Winsupply in 1999 as a manager with Winsupply Group Services (WGS) in Reno, NV. From Reno, Gordon took a position as the risk manager with WGS in Dayton. Following Winsupply’s acquisition of Noland Company in 2005, Gordon was appointed its CFO and liaison to the subsidiary. He was named CFO of Winsupply in August 2011 and promoted to president of Winsupply in Jan. 2016. 

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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.

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