All Executive changes articles – Page 6
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Essilux nominates new board member
Virginie Mercier Pitre – Essilor’s vice president commercial for Europe and, since Dec. 15, president of the Valoptec Association of EssiLux’s employees shareholders – has been nominated to take over Juliette Favre’s seat on EssilorLuxottica’s board of directors. Her nomination will be up for a vote at the next annual ...
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Costa Sunglasses appoints VP of marketing
Costa Sunglasses has appointed John Acosta as vice president of marketing, with a view – according to Justin Cupps, senior vice president – towards expanding the brand and engaging “with our core fans – the anglers, adventurers and explorers who live to be on the water.” Acosta was previously vice ...
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Synsam Group appoints CEO for its new factory
Ida Geiler is to become CEO of Synsam Group’s Production and Innovation Center on Jan. 3. Located on the island of Frösön, west of Östersund, the center is scheduled to complete construction in this spring. For the past year and a half Geiler has been project manager for Synsam’s Made ...
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A new supervisory board chairman at Carl Zeiss
Dr. Dieter Kurz is stepping down this month as chairman of both Carl Zeiss’s supervisory board and the Carl Zeiss Foundation’s shareholder council. Replacing him in both as of January is Dr. Michael Bolle, who has just joined the supervisory board as the foundation’s representative. Kurz has been with Zeiss ...
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Former GrandVision CEO joins Rodenstock board
Rodenstock has appointed Theo Kiesselbach and Guillaume Daniellot to its advisory board, MAFO reports. Kiesselbach spent 15 years at GrandVision in several top executive positions, including CEO of the group from 2011 to 2018. Daniellot is currently CEO of Strautman Group, a leading supplier of dental implants. Rodenstock’s newly created ...
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Top management reshuffle at CooperCompanies
CooperCompanies announced earlier this week that Jerry Warner, executive vice president of Americas and global sales, would be promoted to the position of president of CooperVision, effective Feb. 1, 2022. Warner, who spent 11 years at Bausch + Lomb in product marketing and management before joining CooperVision in 2012, will ...
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The DESIGN EYEWEAR GROUP and Pascal Jaulent part ways
Pascal Jaulent, chief creative officer for the DESIGN EYEWEAR GROUP since 2015, has left the Danish company last summer. The French eyewear designer was one of the key players in the creation of the DESIGN EYEWEAR GROUP in 2014 following the alliance of his French company EXPRESSIONS, that owned the ...
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Optiswiss appoints new global marketing manager
Optiswiss appointed last month Johannes Schubart as its new head of global marketing, product, management and tools. A seasoned eyewear industry professional with other twenty years of experience in the sector, Schubart worked for the last nine years at Rodenstock’s lens division, most recently as director of produt management and ...
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Change at the helm of Carl Zeiss Meditec
ZEISS announced last week that Dr. Ludwin Monz, president and CEO of Carl Zeiss Meditec, has decided to step down from the executive board of the group’s ophthalmic devices and microsurgery subsidiary. Monz, whose term will end at the end of this year, has been at the helm of Carl ...
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ArticleBollé builds up management team for strategic changes
Bollé Brands has announced a series of key appointments in its management team to support its strategic plan, focusing on the digitization of the business, the RX segment, the brands’ visibility and the company’s social and environmental responsibility. On the digital front, the group launched e-commerce websites for Bollé and ...
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VSP Optics has a new president
VSP Global has appointed a successor to Don Oakley, president of VSP Optics since 2006. Oakley has become a “strategic advisor” for the company’s supply chain, reporting to VSP Global’s chief operating officer, Earnie Franklin. The new president of VSP Optics is Indar Chaudhuri, who will also be reporting to ...
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Revo establishes three vice presidencies in sales
Revo has filled three new vice presidencies. Jerry Bedingfield is now vice president of sales for the sport and specialty segments in North America, while Christoph Nitz and Kurt Plunger both now hold that same title for Europe. Bedingfield has been working in optical, action sports, and winter/specialty for the ...
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New international sales manager at MPG
The Austrian-based eyewear group MPG appointed Amel Haring as its new head of international sales at the beginning of September. Haring, who has been working with the group for twelve years as export area manager and head of sales and operations at MPG France, will be in charge of the ...
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Mondottica USA hires chief commercial officer
Mondottica USA has hired Dan Blessing to be its chief commercial officer for the Americas, with oversight of sales, business development, marketing and product. He will in particular be building up the national sales team and devising sales programs. Blessing has spent the past ten years or so as sales ...
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DAC Technologies has a new president and CEO
Will Daniels has become president and CEO of DAC Technologies, the American producer of lens-processing equipment. His predecessor, Joe Ciochetto, has moved on to Essilor of America. DAC hired Daniels in August away from Satisloh, where he had spent 20 years, most recently as head of global aftermarket operations. The ...
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Revo builds up its golf business in Europe
Revo Sunglasses has announced the expansion of its Revo Golf division to the U.K. and the European mainland under the leadership of Grahame Jenkins, a 35-year veteran of the golf industry who owns Tee to Green, a monthly golf magazine distributed in all the 400 golf clubs in Ireland. He ...
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Randolph USA appoints new VP of Product
Randolph Engineering , the U.S. sunglasses manufacturer renowned for its Aviator frames, has appointed Sunni Fleming to the position of vice president of product. Fleming comes from the footwear and sporting goods sector and has worked for more than 20 years at New Balance , most recently focusing ...
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EssilorLuxottica names new president of wholesale for North America
EssilorLuxottica has appointed Fabrizio Uguzzoni as president of wholesale for the group in North America. Uguzzoni has been working at Luxottica since 2019 after previous experiences at major companies like Whirlpool or Bayer . He started in the eyewear sector as Luxottica’s purchasing director in Italy before ...
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Optic 2000 appoints new secretary general
The French retail chain Optic 2000 has appointed Benoit Jaubert as its new secretary general starting next September following the departure of Yves Guénin , Acuité reports. Jaubert is new to the optical sector but has been the secretary general of Darty , a French leading retailer ...
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New DACH sales manager for Maui Jim
Maui Jim has appointed Anne Stahlecker as its sales director for the DACH region, a position that also includes the management of sales in Hungary, Poland and the Netherlands as well as the opening of new neighboring countries. A certified optician, Stahlecker has previously worked as DACH key ...
