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Hankook Tire America Announces Soo II Lee as New President
Soo Il Lee will assume the role as president of Hankook Tire America in mid-January. He succeeds Hosung Suh, who will return to a new position at Hankook's South Korean HQ.
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Soo Il Lee will assume the role as president of Hankook Tire America in mid-January. He succeeds Hosung Suh, who will return to a new position at Hankook's South Korean HQ.
Joerg Burfien succeeds John DeSalle, who announced his retirement from Hoosier Racing Tire in November.
Shuichi Ishibashi joined the company in 1977 and has experience in all of the company's tire and diversified products business in the United States and Japan.
Justin Monaghan has been named Firestone Industrial Products' executive sales director, global commercial vehicles, and Ben Rosenblum has assumed the role of executive sales director, global consumer vehicles.
Smithers has hired Jeff Wible as test engineer and quality coordinator and Mike Kelly (pictured) as project engineer for dynamic mechanical analysis.
Gordon Knapp, Bridgestone Americas president, CEO & COO, will retire and his successor and other executive appointments have been announced.
Tony Ménard, a native of Le Mans, France, has served in several positions during his 30-year Michelin career, most recently as global business leader for the Michelin brand in the passenger-vehicle category.
Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp.'s Chad Stanley (left), a strategic account business development manager at the company, is being promoted to director of sales, northern division, effective Jan. 1, 2020.
Jim Vogel, Steelastic's new president, most recently worked for General Electric where he was the general manager for two business units.
Babcox Media Inc. announced that Greg Cira has been appointed president and Mike Maleski has been promoted to executive vice president, effective immediately.
