All Executive changes articles – Page 22
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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 ...
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Clearly has appointed Arnaud Bussières as its new managing director....
Clearly has appointed Arnaud Bussières as its new managing director. Bussières has extensive experience in strategy, marketing, sales and finance. Most recently, he led the eyeglass business strategy for Essilor International's online division. In his new role as managing director of this North American e-commerce business owned by Essilor, he ...
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Moritz Maier has been appointed as head of marketing at...
Moritz Maier has been appointed as head of marketing at Alpina Sports, the German specialist in winter sports helmets and eyewear. Maier was previously at Head Sportswear, where he spent three years as international marketing manager, after six years in multimedia management and key account marketing at Mammut Sports Group. ...
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DAO, the German ophthalmic optics company, not to be confused...
DAO, the German ophthalmic optics company, not to be confused with the big Chinese optical chain by the same name, has expanded its executive board. Verena Burghardt, responsible for finances, human resources and business organization, and Johannes Hoffman, responsible for DAO's product line, production and logistics, will be supported by ...
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T.J. McMeniman, who served most recently as global marketing director...
T.J. McMeniman, who served most recently as global marketing director at Bauer Hockey, has been appointed vice president of marketing at Costa, the American brand of sports sunglasses recently acquired by Essilor International. He will have global responsibilities, reporting to Holly Rush, chief executive of Costa. Before joining Bauer in ...
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Francesco De Michino, who comes from another medical device segment,...
Francesco De Michino, who comes from another medical device segment, is the new Italian sales manager for Cecop, an international buying group that now counts 3,200 affiliated optical stores in eight countries
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Olivier Chupin has been appointed managing director at BBGR, one...
Olivier Chupin has been appointed managing director at BBGR, one of the brands owned by Essilor International. Chupin first joined the French group in 1999 and spent most of his career in Asia-Pacific, first as Essilor New Zealand's general manager and then as marketing and development director at Nikon Essilor ...
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Novaliq has appointed Gabriela Burian as chief medical officer. She...
Novaliq has appointed Gabriela Burian as chief medical officer. She will report to Christian Roesky, the company's managing director and chief executive. Burian has more than 25 years of international clinical experience, with specific knowledge in the areas of ophthalmic biomedical research and clinical translation, and specialized expertise in retina ...
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Gunter Fink has stepped back from the daily business at...
Gunter Fink has stepped back from the daily business at Flair. The owner and chief executive of the German eyewear firm passed the helm at the beginning of July to a four-person management team under the leadership of Sven Reiss. Reiss, the new managing director, has a proven track record ...
