All Executive changes articles – Page 36
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Karavan & Co. of France hired Jessy Tissot for the...
Karavan & Co. of France hired Jessy Tissot for the newly created position of export manager last month. Previously, he worked as export manager for Marius Morel. The most important export market for the French company is Germany, followed by Belgium and the Netherlands. As previously reported by Eyewear Intelligence, ...
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The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has appointed Mauro Maloberti as...
The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has appointed Mauro Maloberti as area sales manager for the Swiss Optic brand . He is responsible for the introduction of Swiss Optic to the Middle East and North Africa, including Turkey since last September. Maloberti worked for 15 years for LTL Lenses in Italy ...
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Daniel G. McBride has been promoted to the position of...
Daniel G. McBride has been promoted to the position of executive vice president, chief operating officer and general counsel at The Cooper Companies, parent of CooperVision. McBride acted most recently as the company's vice president, general counsel and “chief risk officer.” Since he joined Cooper in February 2005, he has ...
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Logo Eyewear has hired Bernard Rony as vice president in...
Logo Eyewear has hired Bernard Rony as vice president in charge of industrial matters in order to improve the supply chain. He has spent 12 years with ST Dupont, managing the French company's manufacturing operations for lighters and eyewear, after working in the area of automotive components. Richard Vives, who ...
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Justus Felix Wehmer is the new chief executive of Carl...
Justus Felix Wehmer is the new chief executive of Carl Zeiss Jena since Oct. 1. He takes over the responsibilities and tasks of Peter Popp, former CEO and commercial director of this subsidiary of the Carl Zeiss group, who left the company at his own request. Together with Thomas Polzer, ...
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Mathias Schmidt, chief executive of Essilor Germany, left the company...
Mathias Schmidt, chief executive of Essilor Germany, left the company at his own request at the beginning of October. Bernhard Nüsser, senior vice president for Central and Northern Europe, has assumed the post of chief executive of the German subsidiary on an interim basis.
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Poc Sweden, a specialist in creative sports helmets, is investing...
Poc Sweden, a specialist in creative sports helmets, is investing more in its eyewear line, which was first presented at the Mido show in Milan last year. It has hired a new global marketing director for its eyewear business unit, Jonas Söderqvist, replacing Sarah Laurell in this function. The 40-year-old ...
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Marc Ullrich is the new sales manager for Germany and...
Marc Ullrich is the new sales manager for Germany and Austria at Transitions Optical, reporting directly to Dirk Beckmann, business director for Germany and Austria
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Over the next year, Wim Somers, owner and manager of...
Over the next year, Wim Somers, owner and manager of the Belgian eyewear brand Theo, will pass the management of the company on to his three sons, Toon, Mik and Jan. Toon, who previously worked as an agent for the Danish market, will from now on cover sales in Australia, ...
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Adlens has promoted Rob Stevens to chief technology officer, a...
Adlens has promoted Rob Stevens to chief technology officer, a newly created position in the company. Based in Oxford, U.K., Adlens specializes in the development and commercialization of variable-focus eyewear. Stevens joined the company in 2008 as technical director. Before, he served as technical director at PS Research, a company ...
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BBGR has announced the appointment of Christophe Chebac as its...
BBGR has announced the appointment of Christophe Chebac as its new president effective Sept. 1, 2013. He succeeds Frédéric Mathieu, who has gone to fill the position of director of human resources at Essilor International. Chebac, 47, has worked for the French group since 1992, where he has served as ...
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Kenmark has announced the retirement of Don Howard as president...
Kenmark has announced the retirement of Don Howard as president and chief executive of the company and the promotion of Mike Cundiff, currently chief operating officer, as his replacement. Howard, who is also a former board member at the Vision Council of America, leaves the Kentucky-based optical firm after almost ...
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Bernhard Nuesser has been quietly appointed senior vice president of...
Bernhard Nuesser has been quietly appointed senior vice president of Essilor International for Central and Northern Europe, based in Switzerland. He is taking over some of the responsibilities previously handled by Norbert Gorny and others. A former president and chief executive of Carl Zeiss Vision, Gorny was appointed present and ...
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Toshihiko Fukunaga became chief executive officer at Menicon Germany on...
Toshihiko Fukunaga became chief executive officer at Menicon Germany on July 16 this year. Fukunaga comes from the Japanese headquarters in Nagoya. As senior general manager for overseas sales and general counsel and chief legal officer, he is also assuming the post of chief executive officer at Menicon's national sales ...
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Creating a new position, Marchon has appointed a new executive,...
Creating a new position, Marchon has appointed a new executive, Manlio Ciralli, to the position of vice president of international brands, responsible for all the European licenses of the company. Pierre Bessez, former executive vice president of European designer brands, will take on the new role of senior vice president ...
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CooperVision has appointed Juan Carlos Aragon to the newly created...
CooperVision has appointed Juan Carlos Aragon to the newly created position of senior vice president in charge of global professional and clinical affairs, covering both developed and emerging markets. He has been in the sector for nearly three decades. Aragon joined CVI in 2000 after working for Bausch & Lomb ...
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Coburn Technologies has promoted Jason Smith to director of marketing...
Coburn Technologies has promoted Jason Smith to director of marketing communications. He replaces Curt Brey, who has left the Connecticut-based company to pursue opportunities outside of the industry. In his new role, Smith will be in charge of the development of all the marketing strategies for the company and will ...
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Allergan has appointed a president, Douglas S. Ingram, filling a...
Allergan has appointed a president, Douglas S. Ingram, filling a new role where he will report directly to the company's chairman and chief executive, David E.I. Pyott. He will be particularly in charge of Allergan's commercial operations on a global basis. Ingram has more than 25 years experience and he ...
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CooperVision, a division of The Cooper Companies, has named Andrew...
CooperVision, a division of The Cooper Companies, has named Andrew Sedgwick as executive vice president of commercial strategy and business development, a new role in the company. Sedgwick will be responsible for CVI's long-term strategic planning, business development, product life-cycle management and professional services. Prior to that, he held a ...
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Essilor International has announced that Lena Henry has joined the...
Essilor International has announced that Lena Henry has joined the company as chief strategy officer, effective last May. A member of the executive committee, she reports to Hubert Sagnières, the company's chairman and chief executive. Henry will focus in particular on the the identification of new opportunities for development, as ...
