All Executive changes articles – Page 13
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Inspecs names Nev Trotter general manager of Norville
Inspecs has appointed Nevil “Nev” Trotter as general manager of Norville, the British manufacturer of spectacle lenses it bought on July 14. Immediately after buying Norville, which was in administration, Inspecs started searching for a new general manager to run the business. Trotter joins Inspecs from Specsavers, where he was ...
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Pro Optik hires Gerd Kaufmann as CFO
Pro Optik, the German eyewear chain, has hired Gerd Kaufmann. He previously held a similar position with bielomatik, a German plastic welding firm. Micha Siebenhandl, Pro Optik’s chief executive, who was appointed in March 2020, has been reinforcing the company’s management team over the past weeks. The company previously announced ...
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Top Rossignol executive joins Bollé Brands
François Beneben has left the position of vice president of the Rossignol Group for Europe, Asia and the Southern Hemisphere, which he had held since March 2018, to join Bollé Brands as president of its Sport & Luxury business, covering the group’s brands of sunglasses and goggles: Bollé, Spy, Cébé, ...
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Raen hires Jeffrey Ishmael as CFO
Raen, a California-based brand of eyewear, has appointed Jeffrey Ishmael as chief financial officer (CFO). He will be based in the company’s global Oceanside headquarters and report to brand chief executive, Jeff Fitzhugh. He most recently served three years as CFO at the cybersecurity company Obsidian Security. Prior to that, ...
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New board at the French LEOO industry association
Sandra Timon, marketing director of the French eyewear brand Minima, last week was elected president of the French industry association Les Entreprises de l’Optique Ophtalmique (LEOO). Jenkiz Saillet, general manager of Novacel, Jérôme Colin, Oxibis’ associate director and Jean-Charles de Lemps, president of Modern’Optique complete the board of the association. ...
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Mister Spex hires Sebastian Dehnen as CFO
The German optician and eyewear retailer Mister Spex has appointed Sebastian Dehnen as chief financial officer, replacing Tobias Steffer, who has taken over the newly created position of chief data and corporate development officer. Prior to joining Mister Spex, Dehnen was CFO at AutoGravity, a Californian company that created a ...
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Amazon’s head of European retail is stepping down
Xavier Garambois, who has been running Amazon’s European retail operations for the past eight years, is leaving the company. According to The Telegraph, he will be replaced by Jorrit Van der Meulen, Amazon’s vice president for Europe, who has also been in charge of Amazon Devices (Alexa, Vesta, etc.) outside ...
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News briefsLena Henry becomes president of GIFO
Lena Henry, the managing director of Essilor France since December last year, has been elected as the new president of GIFO, the French eyewear industry association. As of Sept. 1, she is taking over the position from Oxibis’ associate director Jérôme Colin who had been at the helm of the ...
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News briefsPro Optik reinforces its management
Micha Siebenhandl, Pro Optik’s 47-year old chief executive, who was appointed in March 2020, has reinforced the German company’s management. The company has hired Holger Schumann, previously head of financial planning and analysis at Apollo-Optik, as head of controlling. Meanwhile, Thorsten Lücke was appointed to be in charge of purchasing ...
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Shopko Optical names Richard Chapman vice president of sales
Shopko Optical, the American optical retailer with 80 locations, has appointed Richard Chapman as vice president of sales. He has more than 20 years experience in retailing, including a more than two-year stint at the optical retailer Visionworks of America, where he worked from January 2016 to May 2018 as ...
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Smith announces major executive changes
Smith Optics, a Safilo brand, has appointed Francesco Rinaldi Ceroni as general manager. He joins the company after more than 13 years in both wholesale and retail eyewear, serving most recently as vice president of international strategy and business development at Costa Del Mar. In his new role, he will ...
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ArticleCirillo Marcolin takes over presidency of Confindustria Moda
As planned, Cirillo Marcolin has taken over the rotating presidency of Confindustria Moda, the umbrella organization of the Italian fashion industry, replacing Claudio Marenzi. Confindustria Moda comprises Sistema Moda Italia (SMI), which groups the textile and apparel firms operating in the country; Assocalzaturifici, the shoemakers’ association; Assopellettieri, formerly called Aimpes, ...
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News briefsPrada appoints Christopher Bugg group communications director
Prada has appointed Christopher Bugg as communications director for the group and will report to Lorenzo Bertelli, the Italian fashion group’s head of marketing. Bugg joined the group in January 2020 as Prada’s marketing and communication director for Asia. Previously, he was the global digital communications director at Louis Vuitton ...
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News briefsCooperVision names Doug Bairner country manager for U.K., Ireland
CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies that produces soft contact lenses, has appointed Doug Bairner as country manager for the U.K. and Ireland, replacing Debbie Olive who has been promoted to senior vice president for Europe. The U.K. is CooperVision’s third largest market globally. According to his LinkedIn account, Bairner ...
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News briefsCooperVision appoints Simon Seshadri to head global marketing
CooperVision, the contact lenses unit of the U.S. group, CooperCompanies, has appointed Simon Seshadri as senior vice president in charge of global marketing, effective immediately. He succeeds Guy Whittaker, who earlier this year was promoted to senior vice president in charge of global strategy and lifecycle management. Seshadri was previously ...
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News briefsI-deal Optics names Jan Cory executive VP, chief commercial officer
The Michigan-based eyewear firm I-deal Optics has appointed industry veteran Jan Cory as executive vice president and chief commercial officer. The position became effective on March 9. In her career, Cory was president and chief executive of Silhouette International from August 2014 to December 2017. She was senior vice president ...
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News briefsMarcolin names Fabrizio Curci CEO
Marcolin has appointed Fabrizio Curci as its new chief executive and general manager, effective June 22. He replaces Massimo Renon, who left the company on April 14 to join the Benetton Group, the Italian apparel company, as CEO. Curci was previously CEO and general manager of Milan’s exhibition hall operator ...
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ic! berlin names Sylvia Jensch as sales and marketing head
German eyewear brand ic! berlin has chosen Sylvia Jensch as its chief sales and marketing officer. Before joining ic! berlin, Jensch had spent the last 16 years of her career at the hotel cosmetics firm ADA Cosmetics International, most recently serving as its chief sales and marketing officer. She has ...
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Essilor revamps North American management
As Vision Monday reports, the Essilor Group’s new chief executive, Paul du Saillant, has revamped the company’s management for North America, with an eye towards the post-pandemic recovery. Rick Gadd is switching from president of Essilor of America (EOA) to group president for North America, with oversight of the lens ...
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Michael Jardine’s Story
As we reported in our last issue, Michael Jardine is retiring as chief executive of Mondottica, the multi-brand company that he founded two decades ago. He has an interesting story about his experiences and future plans, as well as some very pertinent observations to make about the industry: Born ...
