All Executive changes articles – Page 8
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New CEO and non-executive directors at Inspecs
Inspecs Group has announced the appointment of Richard Speck as its new CEO. A seasoned executive with 35 years of experience in the eyewear industry under his belt, Peck is an optical retail specialist. After a five-year stint at Vision Express, he worked as managing director for David Clulow Opticians ...
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Schneider appoints new manager for its chemical department
SCHNEIDER has appointed François Breton as its chemical department manager. Breton has a PhD in Organic Chemistry, 23 years of experience in the optical industry and is well-known for his expertise with lacquers, the company said. Before joining SCHNEIDER, the French executive founded mulitiple global joint ventures, notably with the ...
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News briefsVSP creates and fills chief revenue officer post
Source: VSP Vision VSP Vision has promoted Andy Skitmore to a new post, chief revenue officer of global sales: specifically of doctor-facing sales teams. Skitmore has been serving as Marchon Eyewear’s senior vice president of sales for the Americas. He will now be reporting to chief growth ...
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Mykita appoints new CEO
Mykita has announced the appointment of Jacques Mantz as CEO and chairman of the executive committee, with immediate effect. A senior executive with financial expertise, Mantz spent over 20 years at French luxury group LVMH as chief financial officer or chief of operations of several of the group’s divisions. ...
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News briefsNew leadership at the ECOO
Dr. Matjaž Mihelčič has become president of the European Council of Optometry and Optics (ECOO), and Gabriëlle Janssen has joined its executive committee as president elect. Mihelčič runs a clinical practice in Bled, Slovenia; has been president of the Optical Association of Slovenia since 2006; and is a founding member ...
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German industry association Spectaris bids farewell to Josef May, elects successors
Josef May, who has been chairman of the German industry association Spectaris and Chairman of the Consumer Optics division, has handed over his posts to two experienced successors after almost two decades on the board. Ulrich Krauss, CEO of Analytik Jena, was elected as the new chairman of the association ...
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News briefsCooperVision creates and fills business manager post for Asia-Pacific
CooperVision Specialty EyeCare has appointed Weiwen Chen to the new post of business manager for Asia-Pacific. She will be heading up company and category expansion everywhere in the region except China, which has its own team. Chen served most recently as a consultant on entry strategy for Asia to Visioneering ...
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SMITH promotes new global VP of sales from within
SMITH, the sports brand of the Safilo group, has promoted Rob Retzlaff to the position of global vice president of sales. Retzlaff has been working for SMITH in Canada for more than twenty years. He held various marketing and sales positions in the company and became general manager for Canada ...
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Ocuco has a new chief product officer
Ocuco has promoted Clodagh Nic Canna to chief product officer. Head of product development for the past 12 years, Canna will in her new post be considering the company’s vision and strategy as it applies to the full portfolio of products. According to CEO Leo Mac Canna, Ocuco is making ...
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MPG appoints new B2B sales director
The Michael Pachleitner Group has appointed Hannes Zeichen as its B2B sales director, effective Oct. 3. Zeichen will sit at the company’s board, representing all sales and marketing business units. An experienced executive, Zeichen has worked in different industries, in particular the energy sector, in the past with roles such ...
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News briefsMarchon's new president promoted from within
VSP Vision has promoted Thomas Burkhardt from chief marketing officer and senior vice president of global brands, marketing and design at Marchon to Marchon’s president. He will be reporting to VSP’s chief operating officer, Earnie Franklin. Burkhardt is succeeding Nicola Zotta, president since 2016. This is the same year Marchon ...
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KITS improves profit ratios on flat sales
Kits Eyecare has improved its gross profit margin by 10.6 percentage points to 32.3 percent in Q2 compared to the previous year in spite of flattish revenue. Sales for the quarter totaled 21.8 million Canadian dollars (€16.5m) this year versus C$21.7 million in 2021. The management said that the jump ...
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New VP of sales for Kenmark Eyewear
Kenmark Eyewear has announced the promotion of Steve Mount to the position of vice president of sales. Mount joined the company in 1994 as territory manager and has held positions as regional manager, corporate trainer, Western US sales director and most recently national sales director.
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Smith Optics hires new global VP of product
U.S. goggles and helmets specialist Smith, a subsidiary of Safilo Group, has named Scott Randall as global vice president of product. Randall started his career in retail with Nike Australia before being hired at Oakley. Staying at Oakley for 18 years, he had been working at the brand’s headquarters in ...
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Papa to step down as Bausch+Lomb CEO
Bausch + Lomb has announced that Joseph C. Papa had stepped down from his position of chairman of the company’s board of directors and that it was searching for a new CEO to replace him in his executive role. Until a successor is appointed, Papa will remain as CEO and ...
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Gadol hires a network director
The optical buying group Gadol, a division of Optic 2000 Group, has hired Christine Gabriel to be director of its network, reports L’OL magazine. Gabriel most recently spent more than 17 years as director of Club Opticlibre. Before that she was director of international supply at GrandVision, where she helped ...
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Milleri succeeds Del Vecchio as EssilorLuxottica chairman
In the wake of the death of Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder of Luxottica, the board of EssilorLuxottica has appointed Francesco Milleri to serve out Del Vecchio’s term as chairman of the combined company. It has also confirmed Paul du Saillant as EssilorLuxottica’s deputy CEO and appointed a new, non-independent director: ...
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B+L expands its board
Bausch + Lomb (B+L) has expanded its board of directors by two seats and filled them with Brett Icahn and Gary Hu, both from Carl C. Icahn and affiliates (Icahn Group). B+L has entered into an amended and restated Director Appointment and Nomination Agreement with Icahn Group, after the distribution ...
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Ineurop appoints new chairwoman
Ineurop, the umbrella organization for six independent European optical retail groups, has appointed Janika Jürgens from Brillen-Profi as its chairwoman, Euro Focus reports. Based in the Netherlands, Ineurop regroups over 4,500 independent opticians through Brillen-Profi in Germany (1,880 members), Club Opticlibre in France (1,338), Netcity in Italy (900), Optitrade Retailgroep ...
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Anthony Afflelou becomes general manager of the Afflelou group
The Afflelou group has appointed Anthony Afflelou as its general manager, fifty years after the opening of the first Afflelou shop by his father Alain. After he graduated from a business school in Bordeaux, Anthony Afflelou specialized in digital communication and cut his teeth at an online advertising videos company ...
