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Marcel Zischler has been appointed a managing director of Knecht...
Marcel Zischler has been appointed a managing director of Knecht & Müller, the exclusive distributor of Hoya lenses in Switzerland and one of Switzerland's leading lens producers. Zischler, 54, a trained optometrist who studied at the Swiss College of Ophthalmology in Olten, is a long-time industry professional with a degree ...
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Arnaud Dupont has been appointed managing director of Nikon Optical...
Arnaud Dupont has been appointed managing director of Nikon Optical UK. The Frenchman has been working in Asia for the last 10 years, first with Essilor in South Korea as business analyst and marketing director. He then joined Nikon Lenswear in Japan in 2012 as overseas marketing manager. He started ...
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Etnia Barcelona has hired Cristina Trujillo as its new managing...
Etnia Barcelona has hired Cristina Trujillo as its new managing director. She succeeds David Pellicer, who founded the eyewear brand in 2001. Trujillo has 20 years of experience in the fashion industry. Prior to joining Etnia Barcelona, she worked at Desigual, where she has held a variety of roles in ...
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Monica Dal Cin, an Italian veteran of the eyewear industry,...
Monica Dal Cin, an Italian veteran of the eyewear industry, has been named managing director of Area98, the company that produces Coco Song and other lines, with responsibility for sales and marketing. The company has also appointed Luciana Olivotto as head of sales. Nothing else could be learnt about Area98 ...
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WestGroupe has promoted Wallatta Delvaille to the new position of...
WestGroupe has promoted Wallatta Delvaille to the new position of export sales manager, after ten years with the Canadian-based company
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Hanna Diewald, a skilled optician and a journalist specializing in...
Hanna Diewald, a skilled optician and a journalist specializing in technical subjects, has become the new chief editor of MAFO, publisher of the eponymous magazine, Focus, Global Contact and other related magazines and news services. She replaces Isabel Spangemacher-Fürst. The latter's father, Jörg Spangemacher, continues as publisher of the company, ...
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Marcolin has announced the appointment of Antonio Jové to the...
Marcolin has announced the appointment of Antonio Jové to the new position of general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), after working for the Italian group for many years. He will directly report to Massimo Renon, the newly appointed chief executive of the group. A few weeks ...
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Christopher Mullen, who has been central regional sales director of...
Christopher Mullen, who has been central regional sales director of Canada's WestGroupe since 2016, has been promoted to the position of national U.S. sales manager
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Thomas Spitzenpfeil is set to leave Carl Zeiss' executive board,...
Thomas Spitzenpfeil is set to leave Carl Zeiss' executive board, where he is serving as the group's chief financial officer and chief information officer with many responsibilities, including the supervision of the group's sales and service companies in Austria, Eastern Europe, the Nordics, Switzerland and the U.K. He joined the ...
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Silhouette International is searching a new president and chief executive...
Silhouette International is searching a new president and chief executive for its U.S. subsidiary following the departure of Jan Cory, who held the two functions. Cory has led Silhouette's U.S. business for more than three years. Carol Montgomery, who has worked with the U.S. management and advised the board during ...
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Giovanni Zoppas, who has been running Marcolin since 2012, will...
Giovanni Zoppas, who has been running Marcolin since 2012, will be the chief executive of Thelios, the new joint venture formed between LVMH and Marcolin after the French luxury giant took a stake in the Italian company through a capital increase of €21.9 million. Massimo Renon, who became commercial director ...
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Ocuco has appointed Jim McGrann to its global board to...
Ocuco has appointed Jim McGrann to its global board to advise the Irish eye care software company on its international growth strategy, particularly in the North American market. Starting his career at Arthur Andersen in 1984, he went to work for IBM. He became a partner of Ernst & Young ...
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Westgroupe of Canada has appointed a marketing director, Shaleen Ratansi...
Westgroupe of Canada has appointed a marketing director, Shaleen Ratansi who joined the eyewear industry three years ago by working at Tura after spending seven years in the fashion industry in the U.K. and Canada
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Audrey Bertheas joined Opal last month in the position of...
Audrey Bertheas joined Opal last month in the position of marketing director, replacing Caroline Linder who left the company at the end of July
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Hilary Halper has been promoted to the position of Essilor...
Hilary Halper has been promoted to the position of Essilor International's chief financial officer after the departure of the previous CFO, Géraldine Picaud, who has joined a Swiss construction giant, LafargeHolcim. Halper had joined Essilor a few months before the announcement of the merger with Luxottica in the position of ...
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Paulino Diaz, who has 25 years of experience in the...
Paulino Diaz, who has 25 years of experience in the optical sector, has become the new vice president of sales at Randolph Engineering, responsible for the U.S. and the rest of the world
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After a three-year absence, Davide Rettore will be returning to...
After a three-year absence, Davide Rettore will be returning to the Marcolin Group as chief executive for North America. Marcolin's U.S. business has been without a CEO since January, when Fabrizio Gamberini departed. Rettore returns from Kering Eyewear, where he served as global brand director. North America is a key ...
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Alex Versteeg has been appointed as the new chief executive...
Alex Versteeg has been appointed as the new chief executive of Essilor Germany. The 41-year-old manager has been working for more than 20 years for the Essilor group, among other positions as vice president for the Benelux countries, based in the Netherlands. Versteeg started to work for Essilor Germany at ...
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Alexandre Montague was appointed managing director of Essilor France last...
Alexandre Montague was appointed managing director of Essilor France last month. He has been working for the French company since 2011 in various top management positions in the Middle East and Asia. Before joining Essilor, he spent 15 years at Carl Zeiss Vision in Asia, rising to the position of ...
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Novartis has announced that its chief executive, Joseph Jimenez, plans...
Novartis has announced that its chief executive, Joseph Jimenez, plans to step down from the role in January 2018, and to retire from the company on Aug. 31, 2018. Vasant (Vas) Narasimhan, the company's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, has been chosen by Novartis' board of ...
