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Pirelli Names New North American CEO
Pietro Berardi will be tasked with strengthening the company's leadership in the premium and prestige segments.
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Pietro Berardi will be tasked with strengthening the company's leadership in the premium and prestige segments.
Ryan Lewis will oversee Kenda's comprehensive marketing program to continue to build the Kenda Tire brand.
Changes in leadership in the Americas and Asia Pacific regions will take effect at the end of March 2020.
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.
