Ed Cordiano has been named director of sales for the Smithers Rapra and Smithers Pira North America business groups.
In his role as director of sales, Cordiano will develop and deploy sales process to expose Smithers testing capabilities to new and current clients, The Smithers Group said.
Prior to joining Smithers, Cordiano worked at Linde Gas, a multinational industrial gases and engineering company. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.