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Coburn Technologies announces several leadership promotions
Coburn Technologies, the lens processing equipment division of SDC Technologies, has promoted Jason Frank to Vice President of Sales. Frank joined the company last year as Director of Sales for the U.S. market, following management roles at several lens manufacturers, including Essilor International, Signet Armorlite, and Hoya Vision Care. Other ...
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Zeiss Vision Care US names new head of retail
Zeiss Vision Care has announced the appointment of Emi Cardarelli as Vice President and Head of Retail in the US market. Cardarelli joins the company after a short career break. She previously held senior leadership roles at Kenvue, previously Johnson & Johnson, Unilever and Walmart.
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Silhouette picks luxury retail expert as new CEO
Silhouette International has appointed Christian Bachler as its new CEO, effective today. Before joining the Austrian eyewear maker, Bachler spent 15 years at Fiskars Group—most recently until April 2025 as Executive Vice President of the Vita business unit, which focuses on luxury home and lifestyle brands like Georg Jensen, Royal ...
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KITS Eyecare appoints new president from within
KITS Eyecare has promoted Tai Silvey to the position of President. A seasoned executive with past leadership roles at global consumer brands such as Red Bull or Dyson, Silvey joined the Canadian-based e-tailer in 2022 as Senior Vice President Operations and was later appointed Chief Business Development Officer. In his ...
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Topcon Healthcare reshuffles top management
Topcon Corporation has announced the promotion of Lance Patton to the position of President of Topcon Healthcare Inc., its US-based branch focusing on digital healthcare solutions and AI-powered care systems. A former Optos executive, Patton joined Topcon Healthcare in 2024 and has served as Chief Commercial Officer since. The group ...
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Menicon EMEA has a new CEO
Menicon has appointed Oxana Pastushenko as its new CEO for the EMEA region, effective today. Pastushenko joins the Japanese-based contact lens maker from HOYA Vision Care where she was serving as Chief Marketing Officer. Her previous experiences include marketing and commercial leadership roles at Bausch+Lomb and CooperVision.
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SightGlass Vision reinforces medical and professional affairs team
SightGlass Vision, the EssilorLuxottica and CooperVision joint venture developing myopia management lenses, is reinforcing its medical and professional affairs team with two appointments. David Webley has been appointed Senior Director, Clinical, Medical and Professional Affairs. He has previously held similar roles at Vision Express in the UK and ...
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Specsavers appoints new Canada manager from within
Specsavers Canada has announced the appointment of Jane Hoban as its new managing director, replacing Bill Moir, who will join the retail group’s global team as Chief Customer Officer, a newly created position. Hoban joined Specsavers in 2018, from Unilever, and has held senior management positions at the group’s Australian ...
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VSP Vision appoints Chief Medical Officer
VSP Vision has appointed Dr. Michele Andrews as Chief Medical Officer. Reporting to President and CEO Michael Guyette, Dr. Andrews will oversee the company’s strategy across all clinical modalities, align clinical aspects of optometric care and develop programs to deliver and monitor high-quality and accessible eye care for VSP patients, ...
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Hoya Vision Care streamlines North American management team
HOYA Vision Care has announced that Stefen Haifawi, President of HOYA Vision Care Canada, will serve as Senior VP of US Commercial, leading the company’s ECP Sales, Marketing and Customer Service teams in the country while keeping continuing to lead the Canadian operations. Haifawi joined the company from ZEISS Vision ...
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Warby Parker has a new CFO
Warby Parker has appointed Adrian Mitchell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing in this function Dave Gilboa, co-founder and co-CEO of the company who has served as interim CFO since the departure of Steve Miller in October last year. Mitchell joins the direct-to-consumer eyewear brand from US department store group ...
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UK eyewear company taps former Menrad executive for export growth
Eyespace, a UK-based eyewear company, has appointed Tim Halter as its director of global strategy. Halter, a senior industry executive previously working as managing director for Menrad, will be in charge of accelerating the company’s international growth. Eyespace is a certified B. Corporation with a mixed portfolio of house brands ...
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Europa Eyewear long-time president retires
Jerry Wolowicz will retire as President of Europa Eyewear at the end of February after over four decades of service but will remain involved in the US eyewear business as member of the board of directors. He is replaced by Andy Skitmore, an industry veteran who joins the company from ...
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New Chief Commercial Officer at Magrabi
MAGRABI Retail Group has appointed Andrea Zaffin, a senior eyewear industry executive, as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Zaffin joins the Dubai-based group from Safilo where he has served as Commercial Officer for India, Middle East and Africa since 2019. Prior to that, he spent over 20 years working in ...
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ArticleNicola Zotta returns to VSP to lead Marchon/Marcolin integration
VSP Vision has appointed Nicola Zotta as its President of Eyewear and Managing Director of both Marchon Eyewear and Marcolin, the Italian eyewear maker whose acquisition was completed at the end of last year. This marks Zotta’s return to Marchon, where he worked from 2009 to 2022, including the last ...
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DEG appoints VP of Sales North America
Design Eyewear Group (DEG) has announced the appointment of Heinz Pichler as its new Vice President of Sales for North America, a seasoned industry executive with previous leadership roles at Marchon, Silhouette and MODO, among others. North America is DEG’s most strategically important market, DEG stressed.
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VSP Vision appoints Chief Insurance Officer from within
VSP Vision has announced the appointment of Dave Plevyak as the group’s Chief Insurance Officer, in charge of the not-for-profit company’s vision benefits business. Plevyak has held several management roles at VSP Vision, which he joined in 1992, including Vice President of Finance most recently.
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OBE restructures management team
Effective Dec. 31, 2025, Erik Schäfer, Managing Director of the OBE group, will step down from his position after over 35 years at the company, including more than 22 as a management board member. He will continue to collaborate with OBE in an advisory capacity, the group has announced. ...
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Hoya Vision Care’s Western Europe VP to also lead North America
Oliver Fischbach, Hoya Vision Care’s Senior Vice President for Western Europe, is now also overseeing the Japanese lens manufacturer’s business in North America, the company has announced. Fischbach is replacing Edouardo Martins, who has stepped down after six years at the helm of the group’s US branch. The German executive ...
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Optic 2000 appoints new general manager
Effective Jan. 5, 2026, French optical and hearing aids retailer Optic 2000 has appointed Martine Loyer as its new general manager in replacement of Benoit Jaubert who abruptly passed away in May. She will oversee all retail banners of the company (Optic 2000, Lissac, Audio 2000) as well as Gadol, ...
