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GSI names Clawson president and
COO; other appointments announced
ASSUMPTION, ILLINOIS, U.S. - GSI Group announced in August
that Scott Clawson has joined the company as president and chief operating officer. Clawson is an experienced business leader with relevant
experience including: general management, dealers/distribution management, marketing and sales, manufacturing/supply chain and international operations, GSI said.
Clawson's primary responsibilities are to build
on the success of the GSI Group, furthering the
growth and leadership of the company in the market
place. "I am excited to join GSI Group, a company
with a rich tradition of success in the market place.
There is a lot of opportunity before us. I look forward to helping GSI Group build growth strategies
in the grain and protein markets to take advantage
of the positive macro factors in those markets."
Clawson
Previously, Clawson served as chief executive
officer of RYKO Enterprises, the largest vehicle wash system manufacturer in North America and second largest worldwide.
On Oct. 18, GSI announced that Peter Sarsany joined its management team as chief information officer. GSI said he will be responsible

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for driving the overall IT strategic direction for
GSI, to ensure that it leads the industry in technology, strategy and deploymment.
GSI also recently appointed Mike Kleppinger
as vice-president of market development. In this
role Kleppinger will lead the sales team for export
sales and a renewed focus on major key domestic and international accounts. Kleppinger started
his career as a member of the United States Air
Sarsany
Force, specializing in signal intelligence. He went
on to gain experience at an executive level in marketing, business development, strategic account development, sales, product and project
management. A few of these responsibilities included the development, delivery and servicing of material handling equipment at Bell &
Howell, as well as Integrated Justice and Homeland Security software
development at VisionAIR.
GSI has promoted Jared Knudson to product
manager for grain storage products. The company
said Knudson brings a strong analytical background to its grain team, having recently served
as a business analyst for GSI.
Knudson will manage all
stages of the grain storage
product cycle, including its
Kleppinger
initial development. He will
be responsible for all aspects of the storage product
line(s) including product line development, market
understanding, customer research, and research
strategically to provide direction for new and existKnudson
ing products and markets. Knudson will also lead
the development and execution of marketing strategies to support domestic and international growth initiatives.
GSI Group has also hired Jarod Wendt as a product engineer for the
grain division. Wendt's primary responsibilities will be to enhance new
product development of bins and bin accessories.
Prior to joining GSI, Wendt worked as a project
engineer for Woods Equipment Company in Oregon, Illinois, U.S.
A. Dean Silveus has been hired by GSI as a
standards and documentation engineer. In this role,
Silveus will draft, review and implement new practices, standards and procedures for the GSI product
line. Silveus will also serve as a member of the new
Wendt
product management/change
control software implementation team. He brings
over 20 years experience in engineering design and
production support to GSI. Dean previously held
the position of ECR/ECN coordinator, document
control manager and PWB layout manager for
DICKEY-john Corporation.
Craig Guebert has been hired by GSI as a product specialist for material handling in the grain diviSilveus
sion. GSI said that the material handling business is

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