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ROSS EVANS recently joined Saniflo Canada as the company’s national sales manager. He has extensive experience in sales, training and management with a variety of industrial and automotive firms.
RANDY LEBLANC has been hired by Yorkland Controls as its territory manager for Atlantic Canada. He brings several years of sales and business development experience in the region to his new position. NICK PELLEGRINO recently joined Thermo 2000 as territory manager for the Greater Toronto Area. He has more than 30 years of experience in the plumbing and hydronic sectors and is also on the CHC board. JEFF FATA has been hired by Goodman Canada as territory sales manager for Ontario. Jeff has more than 10 years of experience in the HVAC industry and has worked in residential new construction, custom homes and high rise projects. Also at Goodman RICHARD ISLEY was recently promoted to the position of territory sales manager for the Vancouver area. He has more than 22 years of experience in the HVAC industry, including more than three years as branch manager of the company’s Burnaby, B.C., location. HARVEY CUNNINGHAM has been named the company’s territory sales manager for the Calgary region. NIMA SOLTANI has been promoted to the position of branch manager for the company’s Saskatoon, Sask., branch.
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Weil-McLain Canada has named CRAIG DEMARAY its national sales manager. With the company since 2009, he was formerly the technical sales and product manager. In his new position, he will focus on sales and training, and the development and execution of the company’s national strategy IPEX recently appointed TONY MICELI to the position of Ontario sales manager, mechanical systems. He has 23 years of professional sales experience with the company, including the past 17 years as a U.S. regional sales manager for industrial and mechanical products. He will be based out of Mississauga, Ont. MATTHEW REID has been appointed to the role of heating specialist with Desco. He has been with Desco since 2010, and will be helping to guide the company’s heating business development activities across the Greater Toronto Area. KEVIN FREIDT has been hired by Caleffi Hydronic Solutions as the company’s applications engineering manager. He has 30 years of experience in the commercial HVAC industry, including field application engineering, product development, engineering research and development, project management, sales and distribution.
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Waterfurnace recently hired GREG JOHNSON as sales manager for the company’s hyper engineering business unit. He comes to the company with more than 20 years of experience in various roles in the HVAC industry. Bacharach has hired JIM BURKE as OEM Accounts Manager for its sales operations. He will be focused on select products serving the OEM markets. Jim previously worked in various sales positions for the company from 1980 to 1999. Equipco has hired JACKIE WINBERG (outside sales), MIKE OTTER (outside sales) and LINDA WINTERFIELD (inside sales) for the company’s Ontario region. STEPHEN KOCH has been named the new president of the Canadian Oil Heat Association (COHA). He previously held leadership roles for several building material associations and is also the past-chairman of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance and Ottawa’s EnviroCentre. Bélanger has appointed SERGE MONTMINY sales manager of plumbing accessories and tubular for the Quebec wholesale market. Serge has been with Bélanger since 1976. He previously held the position of technical service manager.