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of worldwide marketing, vice president of strategic planning and business development, and executive vice president for the customer service organization group called Manitowoc Crane CARE.

He most recently served as executive vice president of Foodservice Americas, the company’s global commercial food and beverage equipment division. Prior to his career at Manitowoc, he served as director of global sales for John Deere Power Systems.

JOHNSON MATTHEY: Gary D. Keefe
has been appointed the new regional

BENDIX COMMERICAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS: Richard Beyer, who had been Bendix’s director of technical sales,

has been named to the new position of vice president of engineering, research and development, responsible for strengthening the company’s research and development network and shaping the product development strategy through customer dialogue. Beyer has more than 20 years of experience in commercial vehicle air brake components and systems. He joined Bendix in 2001 as manager of technical sales for antilock braking systems.

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sales manager for the Southeastern U.S. for the Stationary Emissions Control (SEC) North America Business Unit of Johnson Matthey. Keefe, who will be based in Atlanta, was most recently marketing director at Miratech Corp. and has sales, engineering and marketing experience in emissions control products at EmeraChem and Argillon. Also at Johnson Matthey’s SEC business unit, Charles F. Salotti has been appointed regional sales manager for the Southwestern U.S. Formerly national sales manager for Alturdyne, he has worked at Hawthorne Power Systems, Cummins Northwest, Miratech and Siemens/Argillon. He will be based in Houston.

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MEGGITT: Meggitt Sensing Systems, a Meggitt group division, has promoted Sharon Nelson to the position of vice president – contract management. In this role, Nelson is responsible for the overall management of a newly established contract management function to include customers, partners and supplier relationships across all development sites of Meggitt Sensing Systems.

A more than 30-year Meggitt employee, Nelson began her career at Allied-Signal as senior contracts manager and, following the acquisition of Endevco Corp. by Meggitt, her role was further expanded to include overall management of the customer service department. In 2003, she was promoted to director of contracts and customer service, a position she has held for the past eight years.

IDLE FREE: Idle Free Inc., a Madison, Wis.-based supplier of idle elimination technologies for trucks and buses, announced two appointments to its management team. Greg Hansen has been named director of operations and will manage supply chain and production. He will be responsible for the manufacturing of Idle Free’s APU system. He brings with him more than 20 years of production and operations experience, including 10 years in engineering and manufacturing with GE Healthcare and nine years as plant supervisor with Winslow Industries. Hansen will oversee production at Idle Free’s Watertown, Wis., facility.

Jason Hufford has been appointed as central region sales director. Hufford has worked in the APU and refrigerated transport market since 1996. He began his career in engineering and his most recent position was vice president of regional sales for Glacier Bay Technology. He will be based in Rockford, Ill.