Chris Fairless of Fairless Sales & Marketing has been named chair-elect of the SEMA Manufacturers Rep Council (MRC) Select Committee. He will take over duties as chair-elect in July, when current chair-elect, Wade Cobb of HAPCO, becomes MRC chairman and current chairman, Joe Rosenthal of Gantt-Thomas & Associates, becomes immediate past chairman and advisor. … [...]
Don Weber has been named president of the Wheat Ridge, CO-based Engine Parts Group Inc. (EPGI). Weber has been an EPGI shareholder, board member, board chairman and manager of product development. In related news, EPGI’s Bob Mitchell has been promoted to product manager. … Dennis Michels of Link Manufacturing has accepted a second term as [...]
Paul Raines, chief operating officer of GameStop, has been elected to the Advance Auto Parts (Roanoke, VA) board of directors. Raines has served in his current role at GameStop since 2008. Previously, he was the executive vice president of U.S. stores for Home Depot. … Paul Jennings has resigned from the Exide Technologies (Alpharetta, GA) [...]
People Watching Mitchell International (San Diego), a provider of information, workflow and performance management solutions to the collision repair industry, has appointed A.J. Long as its executive vice president and CFO. Most recently the vice president and CFO of FLO TV, a mobile broadcasting services subsidiary of Qualcomm, Long has held a variety of leadership [...]
Steve Gonzales, product manager for fuel systems at Denso Sales California, is the new AASA Fuel Pump Manufacturers Council chairman. Jeff Richardson, Carter product manager at Federal-Mogul Corp., will serve as FPMC vice chairman. … Selwyn Joffe, Motorcar Parts of America’s chairman, president and CEO, will preside over the Nasdaq closing bell ceremony on Tuesday, [...]
John Sturges has been appointed to the CAWA manufacturers advisory council (MAC) representing Vista-Pro Automotive. Sturges was appointed by Chairman Tim Gerrity of General Auto Parts in Oakland, CA. … Bob Oswald has retired as the chairman of Elyria, OH-based Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems. He was appointed chairman in 2003 after serving as chairman and [...]
Former U.S. Auto Parts Network CEO and co-founder Mehran Nia has resigned from his position on the board of directors. Nia and the Carson, CA-based company also have terminated his consulting deal with U.S. Auto Parts, which had been in existence since 2008. According to a filing with the SEC, Nia’s decision to resign from [...]
