People 110306

Nov. 3, 2006
Madison Electric Products (Cleveland): James “Jim” Dean has joined the company as regional sales manager. Dean will be responsible for the South Central and South Western

Madison Electric Products (Cleveland): James “Jim” Dean has joined the company as regional sales manager. Dean will be responsible for the South Central and South Western States. Dean was most recently national sales manager of Regal Manufacturing. Prior to Regal, Dean was with Red Dot and Ideal.

Leviton Manufacturing Co. (Little Neck, N.Y.): Keith Mitchell has been promoted to technical sales specialist for the company’s Lighting Management System Division. Mitchell was most recently lighting controls specialist for the Leviton Integrated Networks and Controls division, where he covered the Saint Louis, Mo., area. In his new post, he will provide technical sales support for Leviton’s line of lighting management systems. Joel Manjarris has been promoted to southeast regional manager for the company’s Lighting Management Systems Division. Manjarris joined Leviton in 2004 as a regional sales specialist, focusing on the Texas market. Manjarris has more than 20 years experience in the lighting control and electrical contracting industries, including sales, marketing and training expertise. He was awarded the Leviton Lighting Control Specialist of the Year Award in 2005 for Leviton’s Central Region.

Hein Electric Supply Co. (Brookfield, Wis.): Christopher Stoming has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing. Stoming will be responsible for training and motivating the Hein sales staff, including outside and inside sales and quotations and branch management, as well as directing the company’s marketing communications efforts. Specifically, Stoming will lead the growth in key business sectors such as industrial, commercial and residential construction as well as industrial and commercial MRO. Stoming will also supervise evolving the Hein Electric Web site into an information resource destination for Hein customers.

EESCO, a division of WESCO Distribution Inc. (Chicago): EESCO announces the following changes in its Minnesota district leadership team. Troy Thompson has been named industrial sales manager. Prior to joining EESCO, Thompson has had seven years sales experience with Revere Electric Supply and held various management positions with Steiner Electric in Chicago. Additionally, Craig Kruse has been named district automation sales manager. His background includes engineering positions with Eaton and Schneider prior to joining EESCO. Also in Minnesota, Rob Olson has been rehired to lead EESCO’s Minnesota construction sales efforts as construction business manager. Jim Smith, a 20-year veteran inside sales associate in EESCO New Brighton, has been promoted to inside sales manager to manage the restructured inside sales group focused on industrial and construction sales. Mike Lucido has assumed the Hoffman Meridian specialist role in Minnesota. In the greater northern Illinois market area, Scott Martin has been named district automation sales manager covering EESCO’s Chicago district Rockwell Automation APR. Martin had previously held sales, technical and management positions with Revere Electric Supply. Karen Dooley who previously held the district automation sales manager position for all of EESCO Greater Northern Illinois will now focus her efforts on the EESCO Hammond and Rockford markets.

Lamson & Sessions (Cleveland): The board of directors announced that Michael J. Merriman Jr., has been named chief executive officer and president, effective Nov. 15. Merriman will succeed John B. Schulze, who plans to remain as chairman until his retirement, which is expected to occur on or before the company’s next annual meeting of shareholders in April 2007. Merriman has been senior vice president and chief financial officer of American Greetings Corp. since 2005. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer from 1995 to 2004 of Royal Appliance Mfg. Co., makers of Dirt Devil appliances. He was elected as a director of Lamson & Sessions in April 2006. Schulze has been CEO since 1988.