All Executive changes articles – Page 9
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The Vision Council has a new director of shows
The Vision Council has hired Sara Bonizio to be its director of shows. Bonizio will be reporting to Mitch Barkley, vice president of trade shows and events, and collaborating with RX, co-organizer of Vision Expo East and West. Bonizio spent seven years working for Metro Optics Group, her family’s group ...
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Zeiss revamps executive board
Carl Zeiss is making changes to its management to “accelerate the transformation” of its digital infrastructure. On July 1 it will be adding a seat on its executive board for a chief transformation officer (CTO). To fill both the seat and the position the group has selected Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf, who ...
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News briefsRodenstock adds two members to new executive team
Rodenstock has appointed Martin Lange as executive vice president of sales & marketing and promoted Dr. Dietmar Uttenweiler to executive vice president of R&D and product management. Both are joining the German lens manufacturer’s new Executive Management Team, whose other members are CEO Anders Hedegaard, CFO Marcus Desimoni and COO ...
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Pearle Vision has a new SVP and GM
Pearle Vision has promoted Kathleen Steele from vice president of operations – a post she has held since 2016 – to senior vice president and general manager, Vision Monday reports. She will be reporting to Gunjan Kumar, president of retail licensed brands and Pearle Vision North America. Steele is succeeding ...
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CooperVision to have a new head for the Americas in June
Alex Wilkes will be CooperVision’s president for the Americas, the company’s largest region, as of June 14. He is succeeding Jerry Warner, who has held the post since February. Wilkes is coming off a nearly 12-year stint at Luxottica, where he served as senior director of strategy and then vice ...
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Bollé appoints three execs for North America
Bollé Brands has made three executive changes specific to its North American market, promoting Myrosha Daley to vice president and head of specialty sales, appointing Taylor Toussaint to the new post of e-commerce director, and hiring Peter Moore to fill the new post of senior vice president of finance and ...
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Silhouette has a new country manager for France
On April 28 Silhouette appointed Camille Masson to be its country manager for France, Acuité reports. He is overseeing the subsidiary’s sales, marketing and administrative departments, reporting to Frank Cornelis, sales director for Europe, and will be helping to launch a line of sports eyewear, called Evil Eye, in France. ...
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Top management is changing at ABDO
Top management is changing at the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO). After a term of two years, Jo Holmes has yielded the presidency to Daryl Newsome, who will himself serve a term of two years. Newsome has in turn yielded the vice presidency to Kevin Gutsell, who will serve ...
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Essilux names VP for professional solutions, northern Europe
EssilorLuxottica has made Franco Ferrante vice president for Professional Solutions for Northern Europe (U.K., Ireland, Nordics and Benelux). Ferrante has been with Luxottica for 17 years, serving most recently as regional director for Northern Europe, France and Israel. The Professional Solutions unit of the group covers the wholesale business of ...
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Bollé hires SVP of finance and operations for North America
Bollé Brands has hired Peter Moore as its senior vice president of finance and operations for North America. From Carlsbad, California, he will be helping the company expand throughout the Americas. Before joining Bollé, Moore held several management positions at international apparel and footwear brands, including Birkenstock, La Perla North ...
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News briefsSafilo appoints president & CCO for North America
Francesco Rinaldi Ceroni is to become Safilo Group’s president & chief commercial officer for North America on June 1, in replacement of Steve Wright, who is retiring. Rinaldi Ceroni has been with Safilo since June 2020, serving as president & global general manager of the Smith Optics brand. Before that ...
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ArticleEssilux wraps up GrandVision buy-out, changes top management
EssilorLuxottica announced on April 14 the successful completion of its public offer for the GrandVision shares that it did not own yet and the buy-out of the retail group’s remaining shareholders. The Italo-French industry giant now holds 100 percent of GrandVision shares. The finalization of the takeover comes almost three ...
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Nicola Zotta to leave Marchon
Vision Monday reports that Nicola Zotta, president and CEO of Marchon, will leave the company on May 6. The Italian executive joined Marchon in 2009 as vice president and managaging director for EMEA, after nine years at Safilo. In 2016, he was appointed president of the U.S. eyewear group. Zotta ...
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Executive changes at Cooper and Essilux JV SightGlass
In connection with the freshly established joint venture between CooperCompanies and EssilorLuxottica, SightGlass Vision has made three executive appointments. First off, Andrew Sedgwick, until now CooperVision’s senior vice president of commercial strategy, is now CEO of SightGlass. He had been with CooperVision for about two decades, serving also as president ...
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Essilux hires from within for new head of Spain, Portugal
EssilorLuxottica has promoted Antonio Nemola from director of Luxottica Iberia to director of all Essilux operations in Spain and Portugal. He is taking over these duties from Marco Caccini, Essilor’s general manager for southern Europe, and will be reporting to Chrystel Barranger, president of EMEA and of Transitions Optical. Nemola ...
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News briefsNew managing director at Essilor France
Prûne Marre has become the managing director of Essilor France. She succeeds Lena Henry, who has left Groupe Essilor. Marre was hired in 2015 as director of marketing and communication for an Essilor subsidiary, the lens manufacturer BBGR, and rose in five years to become its president. She was most ...
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Italia Independent hires a creative director
Italia Independent Group has hired Matteo Pontello as its creative director. Pontello will be working alongside another creative director – Lapo Elkann, who is also the group’s founder and president – and will be in charge of developing collections for both house brands and the two licensed brands Hublot Eyewear ...
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Privé Revaux has a new GM and COO
On Jan. 21 Privé Revaux shifted George Schmidt from president, his title since November 2021, to general manager. The U.S. eyewear brand has also promoted Maureen Cavanagh from senior vice president of global sales to chief operating officer. Schmidt started out as a marketing manager for corporate sales at L.L.Bean ...
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News briefsThélios has a new CEO
LVMH has hired Alessandro Zanardo as CEO of Thélios. Zanardo has spent the past 11 years at Luxottica, serving, in reverse chronology, as general manager of Luxottica Brazil, country manager of Luxottica South Africa, director of business development for Luxottica Russia, and business planner for wholesale global channels and emerging ...
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Ross Holdings divests Mondottica Int’l.
At the end of December, Ross Holdings relinquished its share of the ownership of Mondottica International, the eyewear company headquartered in Hong Kong. At the same time, Harry Ross, who not only owns Ross Holdings but also founded both Viva International Group and Mondottica USA, stepped down as Mondottica International’s ...
