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Wärtsilä's Announces Executive
Changes
Jaakko Eskola, 47, MSc (Eng.) has been appointed
Group Vice President, Ship Power and a member of the
Board of Management. Eskola joined Wärtsilä in 1998 as Managing Director of Wärtsilä Development and
Financial Services Oy. Before taking up this position he worked since 1986 in project financing positions for Kansallis-
Osake-Pankki and Merita Bank in
Luxemburg, London and Helsinki, and in 1997-1998 for PCA
Corporate Finance Group Oy.
Eskola is currently Vice President,
Sales and Marketing for the Power
Plants business in Wärtsilä.
Executive Vice President Mikael
Mäkinen, who currently heads the
Ship Power business, leaves
Wärtsilä to join another company on April 1, 2006.
Christoph Vitzthum, 36, MSc (Econ.) has been appointed Group
Vice President, Power Plants and a member of the Board of
Management. Vitzthum started with Wärtsilä as a foreign exchange dealer in 1995. He has since held financial controller posi- tions in both Power Plants and
Ship Power units in Strasbourg,
Zürich and Helsinki. Since 2002
Vitzthum has been Managing
Director of Wärtsilä Propulsion, based in Havant, Great Britain.
Matti Kleimola, Prof. CTO,
Group Vice President, Technology and Environment, retires on May 1, 2006 having reached the retire- ment age stipulated in his employ- ment contract. Although retired,
Professor Kleimola will continue to act as an advisor to the Board of
Management in matters related to
Wärtsilä's field of technology. Daniel Paro, 60,
Wärtsilä's Senior Vice President who has played a decisive role in the development of the current engine portfolio, will retire on March 1, 2006. Paro was head of the Research Center in Vaasa and also Wärtsilä's entire engine development activities in the 1980s and 1990s, the period during which current successful products like the Wärtsilä 32 and Wärtsilä 46 were developed. Additionally, he has had a decisive impact on the introduction of gas and common-rail technolo- gies in Wärtsilä engines.
ITS Names Myslivy as Senior VP
ITS Corp., a provider of infor- mation technology and engineer- ing solutions to the U.S. govern- ment, announced Guy Myslivy as its new senior vice president of
ITS Noesis Business Unit.
Myslivy will be responsible for the management and oversight of all activities associated with ITS' newest business unit, which is focused on providing senior level technical, engineering and management support to
DoD, Office of Naval Research (ONR), Department of
Homeland Security, National Coordination Office for
Information Technology Research and Development and other agencies.
MTS Appoints New CEO
Rune Mejer Rasmussen, Executive Chairman of the MTS board, will replace Brynjar Gevelt as CEO on March 1. Rasmussen will take on the task of lead- ing MTS through its next phase of expansion. MTS aims to strengthen its industrial positioning, and achieve profitable growth in a rapidly growing e-busi- ness market. Rasmussen comes form the position as
Chief Information Officer in Unitor. He has been a member of the MTS board since 2001 and its
Chairman since 2003. Gevelt has been with MTS since the establishment in 2000 and has held several posi- tions, ending up as CEO in 2003.Brynjar has now decided to step down for personal reasons.
W&O Supply Forms New Division
W&O Supply has restructured the company to form the Engineered Products and Automation (EP/A)
Division. The restructuring emphasizes core strengths, streamlines operations and adds technical expertise and service support to the company's client base and 14 branch network. Newly promoted or hired to lead the
EP/A Division are Jim Baur, Fred Loomis, Edmon "Gus" Bell, Donna West and Steve Hartsaw.
Jim Baur, former general manager of the Automation
Division, has been promoted to lead the new EP/A
Division. Baur will also concentrate on building mar- ket share within the oil and gas industry as well as the cruise market segment. Fred Loomis, who led the
Engineering Products Division, will manage special projects on a nationwide basis and serve as a sales and project manager for Northeast and Great Lakes cus- tomers. The company recently hired a nationally rec- ognized industrial and marine automation veteran,
Edmon "Gus" Bell, to lead its Automation Product
Group. With 35 years of valve automation experience and a wealth of industry knowledge, Bell will continue to develop W&O Supply's automation portfolio as well as define automation systems and equipment for clients. He has worked in management at QTRCO,
AMRI, Bray Valve & Controls and Emerson Valve
Automation (Bettis) throughout his career. "This world-class team has outstanding awareness about the complex valve automation and engineered products industries," said David Turner, CEO of
W&O Supply. "Their technical capabilities and vast experience will richly benefit customers, naval archi- tects, engineering firms and approval societies around the world. They move us toward our goal of becoming the premier global provider of total piping solutions in the marine industry." Additionally, Donna West has been hired as an automation engineering specialist.
West will use her extensive automation expertise to assess client needs, develop and package automation systems, provide technical assistance, manage orders and track production and delivery on budget and on schedule. Hartsaw has also been promoted to sales engineer overseeing the engineered products side of the business.
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