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Names in the News
Brad Heit
Harpak-ULMA announced the
appointment of Brad Heit as regional
sales manager for the Southwest
Territory. Heit has 15 years in
packaging equipment and material
sales including sales of automatic
packaging equipment to the food,
manufacturing and high tech computer
and computer parts industries.
Mike McCarthy
Intelligrated announces the appointment
of Mike McCarthy to
the position of sales account manager.
He is responsible for supporting
clients within the company’s
distribution and fulfi llment business
and reports directly to Rick
Osen, vice president, System Sales,
Intelligrated.
James Petersen
Provisur Technologies Inc. has
promoted James “Jim” Petersen
to sales manager, North America, for
their Formax Forming, TST and
Weiler product lines. In his role, Petersen
leads a team of account managers
in driving the growth among
existing and new customers and expanding
the Provisur brands.
Emily Meredith
Animal Agriculture Alliance announced
the appointment of Emily
Meredith as the Alliance’s new
director of communications. Meredith,
formerly of USDA’s Food
Safety and Inspection Service, joins
the Alliance after receiving her J.D.,
with a concentration in food and
drug law, from Seton Hall Univ.
Per Birkholm has been appointed vice president, global
sales for scansteel Foodtech Group. Birkholm has years
of experience in the global meat and poultry processing
industries as well the pet food industry. Birkholm has previously
worked for Wolfking, CFS / GEA Food Solutions,
Formax and Marel Group.
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Thomas Ivy has been named president of the F.R. Drake
Company (Drake), a global leader in industrial food
loading equipment. Drake is a brand of The Middleby
Corporation Food Processing Group. Ivy will direct
and manage the day-to-day sales and operations at Drake.
He will also oversee the integration of Drake equipment
within all of the Middleby food-processing brands. Ivy
will report directly to Magdy Albert, Middleby Food
Processing group president, operations.
Nilfi sk Industrial Vacuum Division announced that
Jamie O’Neill has joined the company as director of
sales. O’Neill is responsible for driving sales efforts in
North America. He oversees the 16-member direct sales
force located throughout the United States and Canada.
Birko announced a defi nitive agreement to acquire Espy
Technologies Inc., of Marshfi eld, Mo. ETI specializes in
providing ongoing servicing and upkeep of washing and
pasteurizing cabinets manufactured byChad Equipment
LLC, Olathe, Kan., the equipment division of Birko. Birko
purchased all assets and proprietary intellectual property
from ETI. Under the terms of the agreement, ETI will become
part of the service division for Birko. ETI co-owners
Tom Espy and Mitch Espy will become employees of
Chad Equipment LLC.
MWV Specialty Chemicals, a division of MeadWestvaco
Corp., announced the completion of the purchase
ofResitec Industria Quimica Ltda., a Brazilian company
that serves the Latin American Pine Chemicals industry.
The transaction was completed on Dec. 11, 2012,
following government approvals. With approximately 115
employees, Resitec currently provides chemical products
for the rubber, lubricants, food and adhesives markets.
Invisible Sentinel Inc., a life sciences company that
develops rapid diagnostics for the detection of foodborne
pathogens, announced that Paul Touhey, chief executive
offi cer of Fujirebio Diagnostics, was elected to Invisible
Sentinel’s board of directors as an independent director.
The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association (MCA) announced
Dr. Merrill Townley as the 2012-2013 Pioneer
Award winner, which is presented to an individual who has
been a strong leader for the beef industry and MCA. ■
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